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HUMAN s.p.a.cE: The cl.u.s.ter of stellar systems inhabited by mankind.

KNOWN s.p.a.cE: The stellar region known to humanity through the explorations of human or other species.

LANDER: General term for a ground-to-orbit craft.

LONG SHOT: See QUANTUM II HYPERDRIVE.

MAKE HIS (HER) DAY: Use a tasp on him (her), especially from concealment.

OUTSIDER: Intelligent life form whose biochemistry is based on liquid helium and the thermoelectric effect. Outsider s.h.i.+ps roam the stars at sublight speeds, trading in information.

OUTSIDER HYPERDRIVE: Faster-than-light drive never used by the Outsiders themselves, but used extensively by the star-traveling species of known s.p.a.ce.

PORT: To the left as one faces spinward.

QUANTUM II HYPERDRIVE: Developed by Pierson's puppeteers, a mode of travel [that] is enormously faster than the Outsider hyperdrive. Long Shot was the prototype s.p.a.cecraft, the first to visit the galactic core.

REPAIR CENTER: (Hypothetical) Center of Ringworld maintenance and controls.

RISHATHRA: s.e.x practices outside of one's own species (but within the hominids).

SCRITH: Ringworld structural material. Scrith underlies all of the terraformed and contoured inner surface of the Ringworld. The rim walls are also of scrith. Very dense, with a tensile strength on the order of the force that holds atomic nuclei together.

STEPPING DISKS: Teleportation system used on the Fleet of Worlds. (Other known races use a less sophisticated method, the enclosed transfer booths.) SPILL MOUNTAINS: Mountains standing against the rim wall. They have their own ecology. One stage in the circulation of flup.

SPAGHETTI PLANT: Ringworld plant, description obvious. Edible.