| Hegemonic Lines | Crystal Star | Silver Spire | Silver Valley | Humans and uplifts | Tinoori | Brochoa | Hive | Ruehan's People | Isinglass | Deciders | |
| Jayla | Myself and my brothers | great crystal | watchtower | synched silver valley | a city | a city | a city | drifters | a city | the new colony | uncontacted town |
| Sophia | three wires | flux capacitor | chassis | inverted chassis | a lab assistant | a lab assistant | a lab assistant | someone else, dressed as an assistant |
a lab assistant | the child | competing lab |
| Grimblemaury | three primary systems | the sleeping captain | captain's chair | salad bowl | a world | a world | a world | a planet outside the defense perimeter |
a world | the new colony | possibly a fifth world, unsure if they count |
| Ruehan | The Three | lantern | silver spire | backup facility | Vast Populace | Hunters | Farmers/engineers | Wanderers | Family | children | |
| Jim | Three fleets | starprobe | main site | backup site | the usual | Observation | Resource Development | Distributed Communications |
new petitioning scout | Advanced Medicine | Girl Scouts |
| Anya | three legions | great torch | silver torch holder | silver bowl | A Farseer | A farseer | A farseer | the farseer being attacked by the horde |
a farseer | an infant farseer | a farseer not yet met but heard of |
| Sharra | prototype components | starillium crystal | microspire | microspherical crypt | Professor Frinkle | Professor DeWitt | Professor Blyssop | Professor Pinyindek | Professor Pordullig | the grad student | Professor Tove |
| Hippocrates | x, y, z | i | j | k | n | m | l | ||||
| Voriig | things ticked off on fingers |
ultrasonic crystal | resonating spire | silver searchlight | town hall | radar stations | technical academy | subway tunnels to ruins | building with keep | new construction | |
| Kith | three teas | crystal knife | sterilization sheath | bowl sterilizer | circulatory system | nervous system | skeleto-muscular system |
transplant organs | implanted symbiotes | Reproductive capability | |
| Eva | three officers | hyperplasma bottle | nose spire | nose cone | Smiths | Browns | Greens | stowaway | another stowaway | kid | |
| Martan | three hands | throwing star | silver ballspoke | backup receptacle | fountain ball | fountain ball | fountain ball | white ball | black ball | small ball | speedy knocking about ball |
| Max | Rainbow-class hardeners |
power crystal | sensor tower | backup parabolic grid | majority population | a localized subgroup | a localized subgroup | diffusely spread set | third localized group | nearby external population |
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| Ace | blaster, B&E kit, luck | diamonds | tiara | silver jewelry box | Ruby bracelet | Diamond necklace | Pearl earrings | Opals | Onyx cufflinks | Gold nugget | carefree |
| Janzur | perimeter defenses and alarms |
lasing crystal | spire | the valley | Eva | Moment Before Dawn | Grimblemaury | Sook | Ruehan | First Frost of Autumn | Jim |