Goblin
An alcoholic drink.
("Flying Lessons")
Hurricane
An alcoholic drink.
("Double")
Mesh
A health drink made from water and soil from
deep under ground. Fortifying and cleansing.
("Home")
Juice
A drug. An aphrodisiac which acts like a
resistance inhibitor; makes one falls in love, or rather
"in lust", and impairs judgement.
("Flying Lessons")
Vapor
An euphoric drug in gas form. A user is a
"gas addict". A bad trip is called "vapor
lock".
("Brain Drain")
Com-yappa
A dance. Popular on a hidden ASE level. (It
reminded Cleo of the Macarena.)
("Choices")
Tanning salon
Where you go to get some vitamine D, and a nice
tan. Customers can rent (?) VR glasses.
("Baby Boom")
"Atlanteans"
A group of people who live in a hidden
environment on the bottom of a sea. Their ancestors seems
to have fled the surface before the Bailey war. They were
disgusted by how humans were destoying the environment.
They have been gen-engineered to both breath underwater
and to tolerate the pressure at the sea bottom.
A group of Atlanteans tried to destroy the Undergound,
using a pod power cell from a captured Bailey.
("Hel and High Water")
Baileys
Originally created to be environmental control
units. They must have had artificial intelligence, since
they developed minds of their own and started a war
against humanity. The Baileys must have decided that
humans were the greates threat to the Earth's
environment, and set out to get rid of the problem.
Baileys are intelligent bio-mechanoids - part organic,
part machine.
They can morph forth weapons - six (eight?) blaster
cannons - when they turn into an aggressive mode. They
can shoot fire from their "eye" (like a large
flame thrower). They can also send out small, armed
drones to pursue their enemies if they seek cover in
terrain inaccessible to Baileys, like a forest.
In "Home and Rescue" a Bailey was seen to morph
forth a spiked "foot" which it used to try and
squash Hel and Sarge.
Baileys can pick up/deposit people or Betrayers by using
a matter transmitter beam (or something like that).
In the center of their bodies the
Baileys contain a "pod", a power cell which
also seems to have a (rudimentary at least) mind.
Betrayers
Clones created by the Baileys, used for
infiltrating the Underground, for spying and sabotage. They are made
from "polymorphic betrayer alloy".
The Betrayer clones are impossible to tell from humans
when they are in their human form. In "home", Hel's team
discovers that the newest Betrayers can simulate human tissue until
wounded.
Betrayers can regenerate quickly from damage.
When a Betrayer has taken heavy damage it sometimes
morphs into a silvery, metallic form. (organic metal?
intelligent metal?)
Betrayers are programmed by the Baileys, and can't break
or resist their programming.
The memories from the original humans are transferred to
the Betrayer clone during the cloning process, which only
takes minutes. Some Betrayers seem to have emotions, like
their originals.
Betrayers can morph their fore arms into large blasters.
In "Quest for Firepower" the Horst Betrayer
clone also shots laser beams from it's eyes.
Newer Betrayer clones also have shields ("Brain Drain")
Betrayers have locator chips, and can send out distress
signals or calls to other Betrayers.
The Black Watch
A gang of criminals who attacks levels and
sectors.
("The Watch")
Confessors
Said to have special powers, to be able to ease
someone's emotional pain by sharing it.
("Brain Drain")
Dworks
Derogatory name for surface dwellers. They
believe the Baileys are benevolent alien emissaries who
uplift the chosen ones to the mother planet, where they
are enlightened.
The theory in the Underground
as to why the Baileys tolerate the Dworks living on the
surface, is that the Baileys need neural tissue from
humans to create new Baileys. They "harvest"
the Dworks for that use, and also for creating Betrayer
clones.
("Home")
Gandarans
Pale and sickly looking humans (?). Deep level
dwellers. They have low tolerance for heat and light.
They seem to be poor scavengers.
Some of them also work for Sluggo.
("Baby Boom")
Mordecies
Mutants from the lower levels who ventures up to
harvest (human) specimens for genetic experiments.
("Flying Lessons")
Thaw
Someone who've been cryogenically frozen, then
"thawed". Some medical facilities uses
cryo-frozen bodies as spare parts.
Some Thaws may get white patches of (dead) skin
on their bodies from a flawed freezing process, or
extensive use of cryo fluid.
The Food Wars
A war in the Underground in 2347. Dogs were
extinct after that...
Psionic plane
A plane, or other dimension, of psionic energy.
After an accident, Hel's father gained the ability to
enter this plane at will.
("Truth Be Told")
Technology
Megatronic Distributor
Used to generate forcefields.
("The Last Stand")
Shield generator
Generates a force field which protects from energy
weapons. It doesn't seem to protect the wearer from low
velocity attacks like kicks and punches, and webbing
fired from a web launcher also penetrates it.
Newer Betrayer models have shields.
Hyper shields: A more powerful shield type.
(Mentioned in "Trial and Error".)
Healing tube
Can be used to run bio med scans on a
"patient", and heal them of injuries (and diseases?), not even
leaving scars. Has a containment field.
Bailey parasite
A genetically engineered organic data retrieval
unit designed by the Baileys. It's designed to interface
directly to the victim's nervous system, and it feeds on
the victim's bio-energy. It is also designed to defend
itself, so it may have a rudimentary
intelligence. The parasite leaves the victim
when the victim is dead, and search for another. The
parasite has a localizator which enables it to be found
by Betrayers.
("Brain Drain")
Distortion bomb
A weapon which seems to distort sensory input and severely reduces one's ability to fight (or do
anything at all).
("The Soldier Who Fell From Grace")
Gauntlets
The standard, basic equipment for Hel's team. Different
weapons and tools can be attached to the gauntlets, like
a flashlight, a laser torch or a weblauncher. The gauntlets also have a
mini computer with a 3D holo screen and a communications
link, and a localizator.
Shields: The gauntlets have a built-in shield
generator.
McGraw gauntlet: An older model. (Jake Lawson used
those when he once shot Sarge.)
Zondee defense gauntlet: The type/model of gauntlet that Hel has
in "Quest for Firepower".
Nano thermite (?)
In "Trial and Error" Mauser injects Raina with a
nano-thermite, a small bomb that can be made higly volatile if
stimulated by the proper frequency.
Photon Phaser
An energy weapon. In "The Voice" Cleo gets a
"low yield photon phaser", which is for defense only, for
her gauntlets.
ASE level/sector
A level with an "Artificial Surface
Environment". Extensive use of (hard-light?)
holograms.
("Choises")
Crono-molecular scan
Can be used to disclose Betrayers, as it reveals
the biological age of the subject.A tissue sample has to
be taken from the subject for the scan.
("Double")
Flash cloning
A secret Black Watch project. Copies a persons
body and memories in seconds. The clones are short-lived.
("No Thanks for the Memories")
Guardian tag
Identifies someone as the guardian/parent of a
minor child.
("Baby Boom")
Mnemonic Extractor
Extracts specific memories and converts them
into holographic images.
Used on Sarge in "No Thanks for the
Memories".
Mr. Pants
The robot dog Mauser made for Cleo. Named after
her real dog in the 21st century.
("The Soldier Who Fell From Grace")
Nano thermite (?)
In "Trial and Error" Mauser injects Raina with a
nano-thermite, a small bomb that can be made higly volatile if
stimulated by the proper frequency.
Shaft gear
Gauntlets with web launchers. Leg rockets.
Shaft racers
A vehicle outlawed in the 23. century. Mauser
used the shaft racer as a model when he built the team's
"pod racer".
("Pod Whisperer")
Thought inhibitor
A helmet-like gadget used on Raina to disable her psionic powers.
("Mind Games", "Trial and Error")
Transplane generator
A device created by Dr. Lim to expand the powers
of the mind. Creegan and Carter also worked on this
device for Voice.
It opens a portal accessing the plane of psionic energy.
When used as a weapon it
transfers (solid) matter to the psionic plane; it
disappeares from our plane of existence.
("Out of Body", "Truth Be
Told")
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