# The encyclopedia PEOPLE · WORLDS · IDEAS A guide to the lives, places, and institutions of Emissary. Begin with a subject, search for a name, or follow a connection. [People9](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/people/)[Places8](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/places/)[Cultures & daily life4](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/cultures/)[Factions3](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/factions/)[Ships & technology2](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/technology/)[History & events1](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/history/)[Themes & interpretation2](https://emissary.mdscur.com/subjects/themes/) ## All articles 29 entries · A–Z - [Capital city · Book 2 Adamant Hayekar’s valley capital, where public argument, congressional work, and fields of remembrance share the same civic landscape.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/adamant/) - [Moon and research refuge Agartha A settlement cut into a small, active moon, built around endurance, research, and defensible approaches.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/agartha/) - [Pilot and engineer Alex Dakota-Kinsworth The Rebel Ascendant’s pilot and engineer, keeping the ship usable from the inside.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/alex-dakota-kinsworth/) - [Occupied world Clonmel An occupied world where checkpoints, asylum traffic, and borrowed identities shape every crossing.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/clonmel/) - [C Confederate political institution · Book 2 Congress of Member Worlds The assembly in Adamant where independent member worlds argue over shared commitments and their costs.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/congress-of-member-worlds/) - [C Covert vessel CSS Rebel Ascendant A Confederate-sanctioned vessel designed to pass for something harmless, carrying a covert crew through the series.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/rebel-ascendant/) - [Computational cognitive scientist Dr. Tavanda Ruun A scientist whose work makes her the subject of the Rebel Ascendant’s extraction assignment.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/tavanda-ruun/) - [Alien survivor Elesylis An alien presence at the center of Emissary’s first-contact story, confronting humanity with the needs of another intelligence.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/elesylis/) - [Field operator Goblin A young, physically gifted field operator whose humor remains present under pressure.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/goblin/) - [Confederate heartland world · Book 2 Hayekar A pale world of worked valleys, a low-built capital, and civic institutions shaped by independence and shared obligation.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/hayekar/) - [Inheritance and civic life · Book 2 Hayekari culture A frontier inheritance of liberty and voluntary association lives on through family names, public argument, and the obligations of a coalition.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/hayekar-culture/) - [Captain Kaid Sidorov Captain of the Rebel Ascendant at the opening of Geometry of Grace, responsible for a covert crew and the people it brings aboard.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/kaid-sidorov/) - [Former Federation member world · Book 2 Karain A Confederate world whose legal secession from the Federation left it with a strong sense of inherited status and an uneasy view of its security.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/karain/) - [K Urban identity and political inheritance · Book 2 Karaini culture Federation-era status, dense urban life, and borrowed styles shape a society unsure that comfort alone gives it a distinctive identity.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/karain-culture/) - [M Theme Mercy and preservation A reading of survival, responsibility, and the difference between keeping someone alive and preserving what matters to them.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/mercy-and-preservation/) - [Technical operator Nadira Izmaylova The crew’s operator for travel, communications, traces, and the odds behind a plan.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/nadira-izmaylova/) - [Agricultural world New Thessalia Prairie, farmland, and a freight elevator connect local livelihoods to the traffic above the world.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/new-thessalia/) - [Field operator Nobu A field operator who reads protocol and danger with equal precision.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/nobu/) - [Field operator Pepper The crew’s legal and social-engineering mind, with a physical presence that can change a conversation.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/pepper/) - [P Theme Personhood and possession How can another intelligence be understood and protected without becoming something its protectors claim to own?](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/personhood-and-possession/) - [Independent researcher Sam Rothrock A researcher at Agartha whose improvised workspace and telemetry instruments support an unusual investigation.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/sam-rothrock/) - [Industrial member world · Book 2 Svarog A Confederate world of fabrication districts, freight corridors, process teams, and the knowledge held in working hands.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/svarog/) - [T Opening mission The Clonmel extraction The Rebel Ascendant’s assignment to retrieve Dr. Tavanda Ruun from occupied Clonmel.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/clonmel-extraction/) - [T Alignment of independent worlds The Confederacy A loose association of independent worlds opposing what they regard as Federation aggression.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/confederacy/) - [T Interstellar power The Federation An Earth-origin power offering protection, infrastructure, markets, and law in exchange for sovereignty.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/federation/) - [U Interstellar travel Unity drive A drive that makes the distances between worlds endurable by taking ships into higher-dimensional space.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/unity-drive/) - [Federation commercial world · Book 2 Veyra A Federation-administered world encountered through port infrastructure, contractor work, and the procedures of commercial government.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/veyra/) - [Local society and daily life Working life on New Thessalia Growers, freight workers, merchants, and neighbors share a working landscape without sharing every interest.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/new-thessalia-culture/) - [Industrial society and daily life · Book 2 Working life on Svarog Practical knowledge passes between people, documents, tools, and the families whose lives continue around the work.](https://emissary.mdscur.com/encyclopedia/svarog-culture/)