Glossary
The vocabulary of the StarTeam universe — every term on this page is fictional, invented for the in-world record.
Ashen Voidfleet
The antagonist navy of the StarTeam saga: a war fleet that harvests stellar energy (“star-farming”) to power its engines. Their commander in Neris’s story is Kael Drax.
Astraea Prime
The StarTeam’s home: a relay station at the junction of three trade lanes, founded by Captain Veyne. Houses the training halls, the hangars, and Flick’s workshop.
The Awakening
Cycle 1161: the night Neris’s powers manifested in the Port Selene observatory dome, destroying its ceiling. Also the name she gives the event herself.
Control discipline
The StarTeam training doctrine for energy-wielders: breath, lattice-holding, and the “three gates” (never draw what you can’t name, never hold what you can’t release, never spend what you can’t recover).
Dampers
Ashen Voidfleet devices that tangle the Starweave, causing pain and power loss in wielders. Crude, improving, and the subject of Neris’s dampener-breaking research.
The Dark
Shorthand among wielders for the void between stars — and, metaphorically, for despair, the Ashen’s aims, and everything starlight is meant to answer.
Eclipse engine
The Ashen superweapon of the Eclipse Siege: a stellar-scale device designed to block a star’s light. Neris destroyed it from within in Cycle 1167.
The Eclipse Siege
Cycle 1167: the Ashen attempt to eclipse Veyra’s sun; Neris’s first operation as a full StarTeam member and her first Nova State.
Energy sense
Neris’s passive perception of star-energy flows, experienced as music — disruptions register as “wrong notes.”
Energy-weave
The StarTeam’s signature material: fabric threaded with conductive starlight filaments. Flick Marn wove Neris’s suit from it; it channels her energy safely and glows when she powers up.
Kael Drax
Commander of the Ashen Voidfleet forces opposing the StarTeam. He wants the Starheart Core for the Ashen war engine and has made the pursuit personal. Fictional antagonist.
Kara and Tomas Sen
Neris’s parents, nebula cartographers. In protective obscurity since Cycle 1165; the StarTeam keeps their location off every record.
The Kindling
Cycle 1147: the seventeen-minute stardust storm that fused the Starheart Core to infant Neris. Named for the way the nebula seemed to ignite around Port Selene.
Kestrel Reach
A cluster of colonies where Neris broke the Ashen blockade and won the team’s first major diplomatic victory, the Kestrel Accords.
Nova State
Neris’s overcharge condition: a supernova halo, tenfold output, and guaranteed collapse afterward. Used three times, all emergencies.
Port Selene
Neris’s birthplace: an orbital ring-city above the nebula world Veyra. Home of the observatory dome she destroyed and the docks she defended.
The Quiet Years
Cycle 1168–present: the current era of patrols, training, and uneasy calm after the Eclipse Siege.
The Reckoning
Cycle 1164: the Ashen raid on Port Selene’s docks, where fifteen-year-old Neris held the line alone for forty minutes.
Starburst emblem
The insignia on Neris’s suit: a violet starburst, her personal sigil since the trainee year.
Starflight
Neris’s self-powered flight — riding starlight itself. Signature move, terrible landings.
Starheart Core
The sliver of collapsed star fused over Neris’s heart. The source of all her power and the thing the Ashen want most. Composition: unknown, obviously.
Starlume Barrier
Her woven shield of starlight — the hardest technique she knows, and the one that has saved the most lives.
SS Starlume
The StarTeam’s fast cruiser and Neris’s primary posting; named, unofficially, for her. She denies requesting the honor. Lyra confirms she did.
Stardust Blast
Her signature attack: a blooming cone of magenta and violet concussive energy.
The Theros Relay Rescue
Cycle 1166: Neris’s first solo command — holding a breached colony hull together with the Starlume Barrier for nine minutes while evacuating four hundred people.
Veyra
The nebula world below Port Selene, whose sun the Ashen tried to eclipse.
The Veil Nebula
The violet dust sea surrounding the Veyra system — beautiful, navigationally treacherous, and the backdrop of Neris’s entire life.
Violet Starweave
The violet star-energy Neris channels: raw stellar power shaped like thread. Her medium, her weapon, her art.
Voidfleet skiffs
Ashen raider craft. Neris disabled three of them, alone, at fifteen, with no training. The docks still talk about it.
The Wrong Notes
Wielder slang for energy-sense disruptions — how Neris describes sensing trouble: “the stars humming wrong.”
Source notes
This page is a fan reference for a fictional character. All terms are invented in-world vocabulary from the StarTeam record as presented in the Vizlings “Neris Sen” character concept. No real people are depicted.