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THE GOLDEN AGE
by JOHN C. WRIGHT (2002)

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Grouped by nervous system formation (neuroform)

Biochemical Self-Aware Entities

Base neuroform
PHAETHON PRIME of RHADAMANTH, Silver-Gray Manorial School.
HELION RELIC of RHADAMANTH, Phaethon's sire, founder of the Silver-Gray Manorial School,
and a Peer.
DAPHNE TERCIUS SEMI-RHADAMANTH, Phaethon's wife.
GANNIS HUNDRED-MIND GANNIS, Synergistic-Synnoint School, a Peer.
ATKINS VINGT-ET-UN GENERAL-ISSUE, a soldier.

Nonstandard neuroforms
VAFNIR of MERCURY EQUILATERAL STATION, a Peer.
XENOPHON of FARAWAY, Tritonic Neuroform Composure School, called the Neptunians.
XINGIS of NEREID, also called DIOMEDES, Silver-Gray School.

Alternate Organization neuroform, commonly called Warlocks
AO AOEN, the Master-Dreamer, a Peer.
NEO-ORPHEUS the Apostate, protonothary and chair of the College of Hortators.
ORPHEUS MYRIAD AVERNUS, founder of the Second Immortality, a Peer.

Cortial-Thalamically Integrated neuroform, commonly called Invariants
KES SENNEC the Logician, a Peer.

Cerebelline neuroform
WHEEL-OF-LIFE, an Ecological Mathematician, a Peer.
GREEN-MOTHER, the artiste who organizes the ecological performance at Destiny Lake.

Mass-Mind Compositions
The ELEEMOSYNARY COMPOSITION, a Peer.
The HARMONIOUS COMPOSITION, of the College of Hortators.
The BELLIPOTENT COMPOSITION (disbanded).

Electrophotonic Self-Aware Entities

Sophotechs
RHADAMANTHUS, a manor-house of the Silver-Gray School, million-cycle capacity.
EVENINGSTAR, a manor-house of the Red school, million-cycle capacity.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, advisor to the College of Hortators, ten-million-cycle capacity.
HARRIER, consulting detective, one-hundred-thousand-cycle capacity.
MONOMARCHOS, a barrister, one-hundred-thousand-cycle capacity.