List of Characters

Crew of the Skate

Lieutenant Phillip Murphy

Commanding officer

Junior Lieutenant Kory Bell

XO, second-in-command, and Skate’s astrogator

Junior Lieutenant Kostya Sinkovich

Signals officer

Junior Lieutenant Davion Ridgard

Offensive officer and damage control officer

Able Spaceman Hillary Hart

Lead helmsman

Petty Officer Second Class Rupert Lefebvre

Defensive fire coordinator

Master Spaceman Sabeen Yosufzai

Visual sensor operator

Master Spaceman Catrin Watts

Electronic warfare operator

Able Spaceman Nigella Miller

Electronic sensors operator

Janice

Camera operator/Backup turret gunner

Petty Officer First Class Walt Butler

Chief engineer/Mechanic`

Able Spaceman Davids

Camera operator and VSO for the afternoon watch

Able Spaceman Ned Black

Lead gunner of the RSG on the night watch

Officers of the Republic of Terrace Navy

Senior Lieutenant Anna Li

Head of the Clearwater Fleet Signals Section

Commodore (Rear Admiral) Paul Brown

Commander of the Clearwater Fleet Offensive Dreadnought Squadron

Junior Commander Jake Robertson

Commander of John Charlie’s torpedo boat squadron

Captain Reid

Captain of the TRS John Charlie

Major Michael Franklin

Commanding officer of the Asteroid Shepherd The Mighty Jim

Lieutenant Roberta Johnson

XO of TBC-412

Admiral Hirlay

Commander of the Clearwater Fleet

People Onboard Clearwater Prime

Beth Hastings/Darline Hughes

Agent for the Operations Branch of the Central Ministry for Intelligence/Producer for Adult Entertainment

Ian Hoover

Owner of Water’s Bridge Detective Agency

Martin Ashby

Trade Council from Olivier

Boats of the Torpedo Boat Squadron

TBC-473

Skate

Commanded by Lieutenant Phillip Murphy

TBC-412

Ling

Commanded by Junior Commander Jake Robertson

TBC-423

TBC-438

TBC-443

TBC-413

TBC-427

TBC-481

TBC-457

Commanded by Lieutenant Reginald “Red” Harris

Glossary of Terms

Ship of the Republic of Terrace

Any interstellar vessel capable of interstellar travel

TB/TBC

Torpedo boat/Torpedo boat equipped with curve drive

Curve drive

Interstellar drive that allowed for vessels to use the space-curving nature of gravity to travel between solar systems

CST

Clearwater Prime Standard Time

TRS

Terrace Republic Ship

Astrogator

Crew member who plotted the course of a space-going vessel

Astrogation

The science of navigating a space-going vessel, focusing on astronomy

OWO

Offensive weapons officer

XO

Executive officer

DFC

Defensive fire coordinator

VSO

Visual sensor operator

EWO

Electronic warfare operator

ESO

Electronic sensors operator

CMI

Central Ministry of Intelligence

SSB

Signals Security Branch

OB

Operations Branch

SFCCOM

Space Fighter Control Commander

HHE

Hydrogen half-life emitter

Military Organization

Enlisted Ranks for the Republic of Terrace

These are based off of the Canadian Military Ranks for the Navy and Army.

Rating:

Navy Rank

Army and Marine Rank

E1

Ordinary spaceman

Private

E2

Able spaceman

Private for most

Gunner for artillery

Trooper for armoured cavalry

E3

Leading spaceman

Corporal

Bombardier for artillery

E4

Master spaceman

Master corporal

Master bombardier for artillery

E5

Petty officer second class

Sergeant

E6

Petty officer first class

Master Sergeant

E7

Chief petty officer second class

Warrant officer

E8

Chief petty officer first class

Chief warrant officer

Commissioned Officer Ranks for the Republic of Terrace

The military forces of the Republic of Terrace under went a concept called integration. Where a lot of the various different branches of the military were integrated to help save money. The officer ranks were unified between the Navy and other branches.

Rating:

Republic of Terrace Rank

O1

Ensign

O2

Junior lieutenant

O3

Lieutenant

O4

Senior lieutenant

O5

Major

O6

Junior commander

O7

Commander

O8

Senior commander

O9

Commodore

O10

Rear admiral

O11

Vice admiral

O12

Admiral

Captain and Colonel are job definitions in the Republic of Terrace. A captain is the commanding officer of a ship in the navy. There can only be one captain on a ship. Likewise Colonel is the commanding officer of a regiment in the army or marines.