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KAF:

A very strong Hydran coffee. (Debbie Delorme)

KA'NAYA (Traiti):

Female person. Used by a male to a female not of his clan, with or without another title. It is a form of respectful address equivalent to "My Lady" or "Excellency."

KAPLAN, Robert:

Leader of the Nemran rebellion, in which Ranger Esteban Tarlac was seriously injured. Second child of Count Jonathan Kaplan.

KA'RUCHAYA (Traiti):

Literally, "female clan parent"; Clan Mother.

KEISHA:

An aphrodisiac drug produced from a plant of the same name, which grows only on Purgatory. Processed by a secret method known only to one merchant family on Origani, the drug is extremely expensive and has almost religious connotations. Attempts to grow the plant elsewhere, or duplicate the refining process, have been uniformly unsuccessful. (Linda Gerhart)

KETTER:

Sector: 5, Pegasus                           Year:
Subsector: A, Bayard                         Day:
System: Webster                              Gravity:
Settled/established:                         Axial tilt:
By:                                          Oxygen:
Satellites:                                  % Water:
Ident code prefix: KET                       Continents:
Ruled by:

General: A poor world, its local economy is based on smuggling. Ketteran local nobles own and operate smuggling ships, with their social standing determined by the amount of wealth they contribute to the planet's economy.

KHRIMATA:

Sector: 4, Fornax                            Year: 17 days
Subsector: C, Avalon                         Day: 98 days
System: Dinero                               Gravity: .47 Standard
Settled/established: 2190                    Axial tilt: 3o
By: Three mining corporations                Oxygen: 19%
Satellites: 5                                % Water: 39%
Ident code prefix: KHR                       Continents: 2
Ruled by: Various corporate entities

Arms:

General: Principal locus of economic activity for the Emboros Cartel during the StarPilot era. (Glenn Overby)

KINDRED OF THE DRAGON:

Kins and Bloodmates, those susceptible to and changed by the nosferatu pseudo-virus. They are classed as human- variant, due to the extent of changes made by the virus. They are Narvon System's local nobility, and since 2280 all Imperial ruling nobles in the system are required to be Kindred. Susceptibility tends to run in families, though that is not always the case. Slightly over half the children who become Kindred have at least one Kindred parent.

Contrary to popular belief when the Kins appeared, the Kindred are neither predatory nor violent; their empathy prevents both, in many cases to the point where some Kindred have difficulty defending themselves. Because of this, they welcome the Imperial military, and many areas of all three Narvonese planets have Sandeman police forces. Violent sports are frowned on, considered in bad taste if not actually obscene.

Despite (or perhaps because of) this pacifism, most Kindred who feel capable of it spend some time in the Imperial military. Of these, most serve in the Navy's Chaplain or Medical Corps, though some are engineers or technicians. On rare occasion one will join the Marines; so far all of these have gone to IntelDiv.

KINGDOM SYSTEMS:

Twelve planets in nine systems. The first, St. Thomas, was settled in 2158. The Systems' founders were Catholics who disagreed with the Roman Church on a number of matters and either separated themselves or were excommunicated, depending on point of view, when they persisted in acting on their beliefs. They appealed to the Empire, which refused to intervene in a religious dispute. The dissidents then fled, claiming persecution, in three small, barely-spaceworthy craft. When contact was lost and the Rescue Service was unable to find them, they were listed as missing and presumed dead.

Instead, they had gone well beyond what would be Imperial space for the next several centuries. Limited resources and numerous plagues made their growth slow, but it was steady, and by the time St. Michael was settled in 2180, the monarchial system was well established, the Royal Enforcement Service was in place and operating, and the Church had its own Pope.

KINNISON, Subsector 7-A:

No. systems: 144                         Sector: Cygnus
  with 3 inhabited planets:  2           Ruled by:
  with 2 inhabited planets: 10
  with 1 inhabited planet:  20

KINS:

The majority (90%) of those susceptible to and changed by the nosferatu pseudo-virus. They first appeared in 2275, the result of a laboratory accident. Kins develop great physical strength and projective empathy, as well as the elongated canines that are the visible evidence of their change. This change also restricts their diet to blood, preferably fresh from a human donor. As a rule, they have no difficulty finding donors; their projective empathy allows them to share their feeding-pleasure with the donor. Attempts by Kins to eat normal food result in violent nausea, and most have an equally-violent allergy to strong spices.

KNIGHTS, IMPERIAL:

Those who have given the Empire service beyond the expectable, but not of a degree that would make a Life Nobility appropriate. Knights are granted arms and may use "Knight of the Imperium" (abbreviated KI) with their names. They should be addressed and referred to as Sir Firstname.

KORE, Subsector 6-F:

No. systems: 59                          Sector: Scorpio
  with 3 inhabited planets:  4           Ruled by:
  with 2 inhabited planets: 10
  with 1 inhabited planet:  26

KORIL:

Fermented milk Irschchans drink as humans do wine.

KRANATH:

(Of Clan St'nar) Supreme Lord of the Circle, first of the Traiti gods known as the Circle of Lords.

KRANATH, Subsector 21-D:

No. systems: 90                          Sector: Traiti 
  with 3 inhabited planets:  5           Ruled by:
  with 2 inhabited planets: 14
  with 1 inhabited planet:  21

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