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OBERON, Subsector 4-A: No. systems: 51 Sector: Fornax with 3 inhabited planets: 7 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 13 with 1 inhabited planet: 23
ODIN, Subsector 6-B: No. systems: 101 Sector: Scorpio with 3 inhabited planets: 1 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 9 with 1 inhabited planet: 24
OGHMA, Subsector 20-A: No. systems: 102 Sector: Chameleon with 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 15 with 1 inhabited planet: 29
OLYMPUS, Subsector 3-B: No. systems: 41 Sector: Sculptor with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 10 with 1 inhabited planet: 23
OMNISM: (for Church of the Omniverse) The commonest of the "new"(post-hyperdrive) religions. It began soon after Nannstein announcedhyperdrive to be a success, and got a major boost the first time another-universe ship appeared in Imperial space. (Dropped there by ahyperdrive malfunction, the only publicly-known reason forinteruniverse transition.)
It is a highly syncretic religion which teaches that there is oneCreator of all the universes that form the Omniverse. This Creator isunknowable by finite intelligence, but some of A's attributes can bededuced from what humans can understand of A's creations. The mainparts are that all religions are true in part, with the gods beingthose aspects of the Creator (some in body) sent to reveal what a givensociety needs and can understand about the Creator. (Everything in allthe universes is part of the Creator, of course, that being what Acreated with.) Sin is either failure to use, or the harmful use of,the Creator's gifts. Deliberately causing unnecessary harm/pain is thegreatest sin.
OMNIVERSE: The totality of existence, in which anything that canhappen either has or eventually will. (The Omnist Church defines it as"The entirety of creation, plus the Creator.")
ONDRIAN: Sector: 20, Chameleon Year: Subsector: A, Oghma Day: System: Allagash Gravity: Settled/established: 8000 BCE/2532 CE Axial tilt: By: Cloudcats/humans and Irschchans Oxygen: Satellites: None % Water: Ident code prefix: OND Continents: "Ruled" by: Whatever cloudcat volunteers Arms: On a gold field, a red clipped fret. Society ID: Chester County, PA General: A mostly mountainous, arctic to subarctic world; the only temperate zone is near the equator. It is the only place where miracle-weed, the source of rapid-heal, will grow productively.
Cloudcats were moved here circa 8000 BCE because their sun was about togo nova. The cloudcats were established in the mountains, wherepsionically activated survival aids left by the Others gave them thecomfort and leisure to develop their arts and philosophy. Humans andIrschchans founded a joint colony in 2532 to grow miracle-weed; theybelieved the cats to be unintelligent predators until a youngIrschchan, lost in the mountains, was rescued and returned to thecolony by a cloudcat whose name translates to Starflower.
Rapid-heal was so valuable a medication that Emperor Yasunon sentRanger Medart to attempt negotiation with the cloudcats. They provedamenable, wanting little more than that the colonists leave them aloneunless they instituted the contact, and the right to travel on Imperialvessels whenever they chose. In return, they permitted the coloniststo occupy and farm the entire equatorial zone.
ORIGANI System: Sector: 14, Phoenix No. planets: 5 Subsector: A, Fenris Inhabited: 1 Ruled by: (Linda Gerhart)
ORIGANI: Sector: 14, Phoenix Year: Subsector: A, Fenris Day: System: Origani Gravity: Settled/established: 2127 Axial tilt: By: Oxygen: Satellites: % Water: Ident code prefix: ORI Continents: General: Adopting a feudal-type society, Origani managed only sporadic communication with Terra for about 200 years, when it regained full communication and became part of the Empire. It is primarily an agricultural planet, its claim to fame being the aphrodisiac it produces from the keisha plant, grown on nearby Purgatory. (Linda Gerhart)
ORION, Sector 1: Ruled by: Shirley family No. systems: 791 Subsectors: 8 Inhabited planets: 424 A. Sol E. Amaterasu B. Surya F. Shamash C. Heimdall G. Helios D. Ra H. Paiva Arms: On a field of six gold and blue vertical stripes, an ermine quarter.
OSI: The Intelligence Division's Office of Special Investigations,charged with investigating alleged offenses by members of the ImperialMarines, Navy, or Administrative Services.
OSIRIS, Subsector 6-C: No. systems: 172 Sector: Scorpio with 3 inhabited planets: 1 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 10 with 1 inhabited planet: 24
OTHERS: (Sandeman) Those not of the warrior caste. This includesstandard humans, human variants, and non-humans, as well as Sandemanswho are neither warriors nor warriors'-women.
OTHERS, THE: A post-technological race that encouraged the developmentof intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, then left for another plane ofexistence. They are part of cloudcat and Traiti legend/history, havingtransported both races from their worlds of origin to different ones inorder to save them, then provided them with psionic support equipment(survival aids for the cloudcats, Godhome for the Traiti). They arealso known as Those Who Went Before.
OWAJIMA, Kiyoshi: Began his career as a Kai-school ninja, a mostlyhereditary group that provides the Nippon-Ni Shogun's secret police.Like the others, he is honorable and idealistic, though his standardsdo not necessarily match most Imperial citizens'; for instance, hefirmly believes the Kai school's teaching that some form ofwell-trained, well-disciplined secret police is essential to the smoothfunctioning of a society, able to unobtrusively remove disruptiveelements that the open police and courts cannot touch. During thisperiod, his cover was that of an artist, and he was much admired forthe disciplined spareness of his work. When he discovered theexistence of IntelDiv field agents, he decided his skills could be putto excellent use as one of that group, and after Nevan DarLeras sworefealty to Corina Losinj, was the top-rated field agent until his ownretirement.