MJOLNIR: Sector: 5, Pegasus Year: Subsector: B, Sleipnir Day: System: Thor Gravity: Settled/established: 2154 Axial tilt: By: North Americans, Scandinavians Oxygen: Satellites: 2 (Gnasher, Grinder) % Water: Ident code prefix: MJO Continents: Ruled by: Klaes family Arms: On a platinum field, a mallet proper, head upward, with a thong through the handle's end. General: Stopping point of the Sandeman Eruption, 2542. MJOLNIR CONFERENCE: (2542) The conference Ranger James Medart called in a successful attempt to end the Sandeman invasion of Sector Five. Mjolnir at the time was a Sandeman protectorate; its Baron Klaes declared it extraterritorial so the two sides could meet on neutral territory. The war ended due to what Medart liked to call "sweet reason, backed by five battle fleets"--though to his amusement, the Sandemans saw the fleets and Imperial weaponry as a temptation rather than a threat, and joined the Empire for the chance to use them. MULTIVERSE: A group of related alternate universes. Exactly where one multiverse ends and another begins is not definite, since there is overlap, sometimes considerable. Grouping alternates into multiverses, though, makes it easy to refer to such a group without having to identify each alternate by its official designation. N NANNSTEIN, Reinhard: (2100-2142) A Da Vinci-type genius, Nannstein developed the science of gravitics in 2123, financed by a small inheritance he had invested and turned into a fortune. Still working independently, despite many offers from industry and government, he invented hyperdrive in 2125. Working with his friend Cheong Chang, he helped establish the Empire, then designed and supervised the building of the Imperial Palace in Antarctica. He disappeared in 2142 while testing an improvement of the hyperdrive. NARVON System: Sector: 16, Virgo No. planets: 12 Subsector: A, Athena Inhabited: 3 Ruled by: Nilssun family General: Since the Kindred became widespread, in the early 2280s, this is one of the most peaceful systems in the Empire. Random violence, such as natural disasters and accidents, is inevitable--but it is in extremely bad taste to put pictures of the victims on the nightly news. The same with victims of violent crime, much less the crime itself. Violent sports aren't illegal, but they are not organized, and they are considered lower-class. In drama, violence (especially bloody violence) is treated about the way sex was on mid-twentieth-century North American television. Intimacy, emotional and physical, is the primary theme of Narvonese entertainment.