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101

Character
Placed in charge of the Terrahawks orbiting station, 101 usually only has Hiro for company. He commands a team of Zeriods affixed to the hull of the station for defensive purposes. His personality appears a little camp, in keeping with each Zeriod having a distinct and unique personality.

2000AD Online-The Official Home of 2000AD and Judge Dredd

A link from the Judge Dredd universe
Home site of the comic 2000AD which also covers the Judge Dredd character.

90-ARKM-N9 Valkyrie Rheinland Heavy Fighter

A vehicle/ship class from the Freelancer universe
The Valkyrie Heavy Fighter is a fearsome opponent and is even capable of taking down capital ships when operating in small flights. These ships are not the routine patrol vessels of Rheinland, that task is left to the smaller Banshee, but Valkyries are deployed as heavy combat fighters and strike craft. Capable of mounting 5 Class 8 fixed...

Accelerando

Universe
A collection of nine novellas and novelettes by Charles Stross that explore the function and nature of human society before and after the technological singularity. The stories progress in a linear fashion and follow 3 generations of the Macx family through the 21st century. The first 3 stories are told from the point of view of the 'venture altrui...

Acclamator-class Assault Transport

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
Acclamators are large assault transports originally used by the Old Republic. They ferried clone troopers and their support vehicles through space, and down to the surface of the planet they were being deployed to. Acclamators carried LAAT gunships, LAAT/c vehicle-deployment craft, AT-TE walkers, SPHA-T heavy artillery, and other military materiel....

Achilles Class Dropship

A vehicle/ship class from the Battletech universe
The Achilles Class DropShip is unusual in being designed primarly to combat other DropShips and AeroSpace Fighters, rather than engaging in planetary assault. It is incapable of atmospheric flight, but to compensate the vessel is highly maneuverable in space and can outrun any other existing DropShip and most heavy and medium fighters.  Th...

Acts of Sacrifice

An episode from the Babylon 5 universe

Adama

A character from the Battlestar Galactica (1978) universe
Commander Adama was one of the members of the original Qurom of the Twelve, and seemed to be the sole sceptical one among that body who was wary of the proposed Cylon peace treaty. Despite urging President Adar to be cautious, he was ignored, and had to watch while the Twelve Colonies burned and the Colonial Battlefleet was all but d...

Adam Steiner

A character from the Battletech universe
Major Adam Steiner was a mechwarrior with his own brand of unorthodox tactics. He had earned a transfer to the Nagelring War College on Tharkad. However, his home world of Somerset was invaded by Clan Jade Falcon. Adam Steiner forms the 1st Somerset Strikers out of the survivors of the Jade Falcon raid and attempts to strik...

A Day in the Strife

Episode
A probe of unknown origin arrives at the station and transmits a series of questions.

A Distant Star

An episode from the Babylon 5 universe
An old friend and mentor of Sheridan's, Captain Maynard, arrives at the station. Maynard's ship is one of the Earth Alliance's Explorer vessels, made for building new jumpgates. After leaving the station, the ship becomes lost in hyperspace, and Sheridan decides to mount a rescue, despite the fact that no wayward vessel has...

Aegis Class Cruiser

A vehicle/ship class from the Battletech universe
The Aegis class Cruiser predates the Star League accords, having first been launched in 2372. The aging vessels were decommisioned in 2531, but were later reactivated when there was an urgent need for warships in the Reunification war that followed the signing of the Star League Accords. A number of each of these vessels was assigne...

Agamemnon

A ship from the Babylon 5 universe
(Subject to change, etc. etc.)The EAS Agamemnon was a ship of the new Omega class Destroyer, constructed after the horrible Earth-Minbari War, where humanity went to the very brink of extinction and was saved at the last moment.  The Agamemnon's registry number was OCG-5, making it one of the first Omega class Destroyers buil...

Aggressor

A ship from the Star Wars universe
The Aggressor was one of the first Super Star Destroyers to be constructed. It was stationed in the Inner Rim territories until six months after the battle of Endor. Then Admiral Roek and the Aggressor were recalled to the Core to protect the shipyards in the Corellian system from a possible attack by the Rebels. The fate of the Aggressor is unknow...

Agrippa

A ship from the Babylon 5 universe
The EAS Agrippa, commanded by Captain Dexter Smith, was an Omega-class Destroyer dispatched as part of the task force sent to seize control of Babylon 5 in 2260. After engaging in fierce combat with the EAS Churchill, the EAS Alexander, and Babylon 5 itself, the Agrippa was dealt a death blow from the combi...

Agroship

A ship from the Battlestar Galactica (1978) universe
The Agroship serves the fleet as one of the main food producing vessels. There were originally three agroships in the fleet but two were destroyed by a Cylon attack force and the third was damaged forcing Commander Adama to look for seeds elsewhere to replenish the damaged crops. The Agroships are large targets and are horri...

Aiden Pryde

A character from the Battletech universe
Aiden Pryde is one of the most celebrated warriors of Clan Jade Falcon, which contrasts strongly to his rather inglorious past. Originally part of a normal trueborn sibko, Aiden failed his Warriors test of position and was relegated to the technician caste. Falconer Commander Ter Roshak, head of the training facility at Ironhold, had been...

Akkan

A character from the Trigan Empire, The universe
Akkan was a corrupt Trigan officer who was governer of the colony of Zabriz. While Trigan justice and code of laws are meant to be universal throughout the empire, the far flung colony of Zabriz, due to its distance from Trigan City was being mismanaged. Far from being the ideal representative of Trigan City, and of Emperor Trigo, Akkan was cruel...

Alan Carter

A character from the Space:1999 universe
Alan Carter is officially chief of the Reconaissance section of Moonbase Alpha, he was also a driving force behind the Meta Probe mission that Commander Koenig was sent to Moonbase Alpha to get launched. Carter seems to have been earmarked for the same role that Koenig had performed in the Ultraprobe missi...

Albedo

A character from the Hyperion universe
Albedo was the official advisor and representative of the TechnoCore to the Hegemony of Man government. He looked like an ordinary man, with a long-shaped face and high jawbones. He was never present in person in government meetings, only by hologram. Albedo, dispite not really being a human being, always acted as one, with ...

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