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Interesting Facts
This page contains Trivia and other interesting facts about people, places, and things in the Star Spawn Universe. I will add to it from time to time as people ask questions about the stories and characters. (Original Site Page)
People
Julie Stollack's first command as Captain: ADF Just Cause, survey vessel.Stan Walker's first command as Captain: ADF Howler, survey vessel.Al-zed's police force are referred to as the restrictors.Admiral [Rafner Chance] (Zurthian) Photo of fashion model Ann Dodd.
Things
Supply Shuttle globe diameter: 200 metersWarship globe diameter: 400 metersDreadnaught globe diameter: 8 miles (I had originally specified this as four times the diameter of the standard warship (1600 meters) but then realized that the ship would not be able to accomodate its mission. Increasing the size of the ship also resulted in having additional needs in terms of power and construction.
Alliance Common
Common is the written and spoken language of commerce among Allied Planets. While I don't mention it, common is not the same language used by the indivudal races.
The Drac language is phonetic in nature and has only thirty-eight distinct sounds (as compared to about fifty-two for speakers of American English and its foreign sound variants).
If a Drac was to come into contact with a citizen of the United States and assuming we spoke a similar “English” language, we would find that they would have a very distinct accent. They would think the same of us and I think that in many cases, they would find it difficult to understand us.
For instance, some American accents would make the words balm and bomb sound alike. Also, they have four letters each in our language. The Drac language would give the two words a very distinctive “flavor” if written: balm would be written in their limited character set as four letters, the equivalent of b, ah, el, em, while bomb would be written as three letters, the equivalent of b, ah, em.
Of course, the character set would also be distinctly different, but I think most of us would be able to read the language with a little work, primarily because it is phonetically based.
At some future date, I hope to create and post a true-type font, along with text written in their language. Users of Microsoft-based operating systems should be able to load the font and “see” the written language in their brower.
Other notworthy facts:
A sevendy is a weekFour sevendies make a monthThirteen months make a yearThere are 362 days in a yearMonths have “common” names, that is, Quixar is the name of the fourth month and it means “pretty baby.”
Places
Al-zed, headquarters city, planet, and system of the Alliance, was originally a Zurth Colony. The city was originally known as Arazthruestra.
Page created: April 09, 2007
Page updated: April 07, 2008