Albacronian Long-Range Rifle Rod (L-Tripple R): A three-foot-long, barreled, more powerful Albacronian rod and able to shoot from a greater distance. Other than being able to cancel out the short-range rod’s ability to mask thermal detection, the weapon is non-versatile.
Albacronian Short-Range Multi-Purpose Rod (The ASRMPR): An electronic Albacronian Swiss Army Knife, called ‘rods’ for short. They can perform the functions of weapon, flashlight, heater, cloak of silence (projects an invisible field that blocks all covert surveillance and makes the body heat of those encompassed in it undetectable). It’s seven inches long, silver-colored, and an inch in diameter. A black cap on one end is turned like a dial to change modes. Depressing it makes it fire a beam out the other end. It is worn in a sheath strapped to the right leg. It can go without charging for thirty days.
Functions: White light = disintegrate or kill (can be set to stun)
Golden light (wide beam) = Make people unconscious
White light = Flashlight
Alarm = Alert when tracking mechanisms invade.
Shield and Block = Invisible ray. Blocks probing.
Three prongs protrude: Becomes a limited space heater.
Four prongs protrude: Cloak of silence (anti-surveillance and body heat detection)
Ambient Ionic Field: A surveillance field that can record conversations from a great distance. The ‘Cloak of Silence’ function of the Albacronian Short-Range Multi-Purpose Rod renders it ineffective.
Anti-inertia Filter: Cancels out inertia when a craft is jolted to a stop or suddenly turns.
Bio-scan: An electronic scan of the body to determine illness or injury.
Brain Wave Disruptor (BWD): A device that nullifies brainwaves outside the human brain, making telekinesis impossible.
Bullet Tube: Underground train connecting the mayors’ village mansions to their chalets in the Appalachian Mountains.
Cleaning Station: A single workstation in the Data Room that is solely dedicated to erasing the memories of Vercundi who have violated the perimeter fence twice and received the ‘Crystal of Shame.’
Cold Thermal Healer (CoTH): Medical tool that heals cuts and burns. Described like this: silver, tube-shaped object with an opaque, red polymer cap at one end. It’s switched on by turning the gold ring on the opposite end causing a reddish ray to flash out. The ray is run over part of the body until the reddish light diminished replaced by a malachite-green light. When it darkens sufficiently, it can be pulled away, and the ray turns red again. The skin is then healed.
Crystal of Shame: With six, flat sides, the brownish-red crystal terminates in a point on one end and a silver cap with a loop on the other. A string passes through the loop. It is awarded to second-time perimeter violators and will hit the wearer with shock rays for further disobedience.
Currus: Fusion-powered, triangular-shaped, Albacronian flying car that holds a pilot plus eight others. They fly at different height levels above the grass roadway guides in Adelphy, the Albacronian capital. Each vehicle is assigned to one of twelve levels.
Data Room: The room in the mayor’s mansion where all the data records are stored. One station is set up for wiping away the memories of reprimanded Vercundi of their visits.
Dead Room: A building in the village square where dead Vercundi are processed.
Destabilizing Disruptor Ray (The DDR): An Albacronian weapon that can cause an aircraft to lose navigational stability and crash.
Docking Bay: An air-tight room in Adelphy, the Albacronian capital city, where heliocraft are parked. On departing, the room filled with water and opened to the Delaware River below its surface.
Docking Station: Where Albacronians go to borrow heliocraft. There are several up and down the Delaware River in Adelphy built into both banks below the water level.
Electro-magnetic Pulse Cannon (the EMPC): It takes the power of a magnet, millions of times the strength of normal magnets, couples it with electricity that shoots pulses outward into a narrow, invisible beam. When they strike an enemy fighter, the electromagnetism causes power surges that knockout the controls of the enemy crafts.
Ethereal Net: Making a short or long-range communication ship-to-ship or ship-to-ground. Issued as the military command, “Establish an ethereal net with ….”
Ethereal Receiver [ER]: It receives the Superior Albacronian’s nightly ‘Nurturing’ broadcast. It cannot be used by the Vercundi slaves as a sending device.
Ethereal Transceiver [ET]: It sends and receives text, voice, and visual messages.
Food Distribution Center: A building in the village square where Vercundi go to retrieve their daily food rations.
Glow-stick: A light source in the form of a short, flexible rod. Once bent, it glows. Straightened again, and the light goes out.
Heliocruiser: Called cruisers, they are Albacronian patrol craft consisting of an open circular platform about 10 feet in diameter and are capable of speeds up to the 70 mph. It can carry five passengers plus the pilot. Their chief function is to patrol the perimeter fences around the Vercundi villages.
Heliocraft: Albacronian civilian flying/hovering machines capable of speeds up to 600 mph. It is a saucer-shaped object twenty-five feet high and fifty feet in diameter. Pilot and passengers enter the heliocraft through a vanishing door that reveals a space large enough to walk into. Glowing rungs in a ladder lead up to the entrance fifteen feet above. The inside of the saucer-shaped heliocraft consists of two main spaces. The largest in the center consists of an oval, glass plate in the room’s center splashing greenish light upward. A panel angled upward and away sits on the right side filled with flashing lights. Many compartments fill the wall on the left side. A smaller compartment opens in the floor to reveal a water-tight room for swimmers to exit while the craft is submerged. The smaller piloting space opposite the tail structure connects to the central room by way of a narrow passageway. Four chairs, with a gap between the middle two, face a black, glass plate lying flat on the console. The counter arcs gently outward so each passenger can see the others. A black, navigational control stick juts out at an angle from beneath the glass plate.
Holographic Guidance System: The navigation system for an Albacronian heliocraft. It is controlled by a stick jutting out from the console between the two center piloting chairs. The stick has a soft, plastic sheath that is removable.
Home-to-Roost Chamber: A little room that acts as a microwave to turn a three-time Vercundi perimeter violator into ashes.
Hyper-magnetic Overdrive (HyMOD): Used for space flight in the alien replicas.
Hypothalmacide: Anesthetizing drug administered through a hypo to the neck.
IHET: In-House Ethereal Transceiver. A two-way Vercundi communication device used to converse with the Supreme Mayor. Twelve inches high, it makes a splashing sound when it springs to life and glows with a greenish fog between two concave disks. A black button on its silver base turns it on causing the greenish mist to morph into an image of who’s communicating.
Incu-baby: All Albacronian children are incubated in mechanical wombs.
Instaratio Treatment: The act of renewing knowledge in the brain through an Albacronian facility known as the Nassiterium. Memory molecules that have separated over time are reassembled restoring all memories, and the latest knowledge is uploaded to a human’s memory cells.
Integrator-Disintegrator: A Transmuter (manufactures solid objects out of air molecules for non-food items that can also disintegrate.
Magno-Trains: High-speed trains (MT’s) that ride above a magnetized track of the same polarity that connect the cities of Nova America.
Microlux Transducer: The device that transfers power during the cold fusion process by splitting hydrogen atoms from air molecules.
Micronetically Induced Laser and Field Array (MILFA): The combining of the Albacronian Rod features with a force field in 2739. It comes as a silver headband that connects to four silver-layered disks, each centered and ascending smaller than the last with a half-sphere of transparent, colored stone. Wearers have their choice of colors. They are controlled by thought.
Micro-proton Ray (The MPR): All alien replicas are armed with this. Book 2: All military craft of Nova America are armed with the technology that concentrates a ray on objects, forcing the protons of every atom to disintegrate. When struck, an enemy craft simply implodes and becomes an unrecognizable mass that crumples up.
Nanobots: Tiny robots containing the personal information of Albacronians. They are stored as a colony in their right wrists and are used to ‘check out’ things such as a heliocraft.
Nano-communibots: Nanobots whose sole function is for communication, transferring information to and from another Albacronian wrist implant.
Negative Matter: Is used to remove space and create a vacuum in its place so a spacecraft can move faster than light. It is made from the positive matter of Osmium. (See Positive Matter and Osmium)
Osmium (OS): The densest matter on Earth. It has an atomic number of 76. It is a hard, brittle, bluish-white transition metal in the platinum ore family. It is used as a fuel source to convert positive matter (itself) into negative matter thereby creating a vacuum at any point around a spacecraft allowing it to move forward faster than the speed of light. The Big Bang moved faster than light as it was created in a vacuum.
Prudentia Scientifica Sphere: Four-inches in diameter. Grayish, metallic-looking indentations and cavities pockmark its surface. Tiny chunks of metal border many of the cavities. All the world’s knowledge up to 2044 was compiled and put under the management of a single hologram character.
Prudentia Scientifica Sphere Pyramid: The three-sided, eight-inch-in-diameter (at the base) housing in which the globe is stored.
Qualitative Data Analyzer (QDA): Scans, analyzes, and records data.
Qualitative Medical Data Analyzer (QMDA): Scans, analyzes, and records medical data from patients.
Qualitative Scientific Data Analyzer (QSDA): Scans, analyzes, and records scientific data.
Quintessabytes: The highest unit of data size for teddies and other data storage devices.
Sensor Disks: Disks inside the alien ship groove that detect oncoming craft (it’s radar). Range on a planet: 2,250 miles. Range in space: 1.24601 light-years.
Tabloid Electronic Devices (AKA teddies): They are personal electronic tablets first used by the Albacronians of Adelphy in the days of Albacron (pre-2730).
Tele-ethereal: A form of text communication.
Underwater Traffic Air Tube (UTAT): An air-filled tube for traveling across the Delaware River underwater in heliocraft.
Wand, Prodding: Sticks charged with electricity (Taser).
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