PIPER'S WORLD: Sector: 5, Pegasus Year: Subsector: B, Sleipnir Day: System: Valkyr Gravity: Settled/established: Axial tilt: By: Oxygen: Satellites: % Water: Ident code prefix: PIP Continents: Ruled by: General: Mostly-tropical world, among those conquered by Sandeman during the Eruption. PLANETS: The smallest Imperial subdivision, ruled by barons. Those with only temporary or limited-purpose settlements are classified as uninhabited and subject to the rule of the settling planet's baron. POLARIS, Subsector 9-A: No. systems: 146 Sector: Ursa with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 11 with 1 inhabited planet: 26 POSEIDON, Subsector 17-C: No. systems: 183 Sector: Indus with 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 10 with 1 inhabited planet: 17 POWER ARMOR: Full-metal armor with force-field shielding, used in initial assaults and intense firefights. The force-field is the armor's primary defense; the armor itself serves mostly as a weapons platform, though if the force-field fails, it will sometimes provide enough protection for the operator to reach safety. In most cases, however, force-field failure is due to overload by enemy fire, and the ensuing suit failure and powerpack disruption cause total destruction of armor and operator both. The armor is so massive that the operator cannot move it without assistance. This is provided by internal sensors which amplify small operator motions and transmit them to fusion-powered servos; these move the armor itself. Since delicacy of control is more important than sheer strength, which the armor provides, most power-armor specialists are women. PROMETHEUS, Subsector 18-E: No. systems: 119 Sector: Aries with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 10 with 1 inhabited planet: 23 PSIRYNE: The hormone responsible for psionic Talent in humans. It is present even if the Talent is latent; even though this specific connection was not discovered until 2572, the Narvonese used a specific type of it as a "marker" of susceptibility to the pseudo-virus as early as 2276.