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K-type Star

The orange K type star is towards the dimmer and cooler end of the sequence of spectral types, although still hot and bright enough for any planets to be good candidates for colonization. These stars are distinguished by a strong metallic line, and molecular bands of CH and CN.

These stars are somewhat like Sol, although rather smaller and dimmer. The statistics for K type stars are given below:

Spectral type	Luminosity - Sol = 1	temperature ° Kelvin	Mass - Sol = 1	Radius - Sol = 1	Density gm/cm3
K0	0.8	5,500°	0.8	0.8	1.8
K5	0.04	4,900°	0.7	0.7	2.4

While a K0 type star has a mass of about 0.8 times that of Sol, its luminosity is only about 0.4 times as much. . The F5 spectral type is even worse off, its luminosity is only one fifth that of Sol, and a surface temperature of 4,900°. But what they lack in brightness these stars make up in longevity; even the K0 type will spend some 17 billion years on the main sequence. And while these stars have a fairly small life-zone as far as terragen comfort goes, but cold adapted life benefits, and Europan Type worlds and life may be common if conditions are favourable. Arean Type worlds are also very common, and these are always good candidates for terraforming. K-type solar systems are therefore quite popular among development corporations and colonists.

M.Alan Kazlev

K4H

One of the five main interstellar development megacorporations (or Big Five) of the first Federation period. The others were Truth-Santaya Networks, TakiCorb, Terranova Foundation, and SecureSpace. In the colonies they were very often a law unto themselves. They eventually merged to become the NoCoZo

Ka

In Classical Egyptian and Neo-Egyptian thought, the subtle principle of double. The definition varies greatly, but generally a contrast is made with the Ba or soul and the Khu or spirit; the Ka being more closely associated with the body.

Kaa Yvanti

GI 109 II - Inner Sphere world, best known for the Byrdis orbital habitat cluster and free-floating beanstalk.

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Kabbalah

Old Earth tradition of Jewish theosophy and mysticism that flourished in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and again with the esoteric revival of the information age.

The Kabbalah deals with questions of how the human person can relate to a God who is totally incomprehensible and other, and how that God relates to creation. God is explained in terms of ten archetypal divine emanations or Sefirot, each of which in turn contains a further ten sefirot, and so on, fractally. Also explained is cosmogony; the creation or emanation of angels and humanity, their destiny, the nature of the soul, and the eventual reunion and restoration (tikkun) of all the worlds. Kabbalah was adopted by Christians, Rosicrucians, and Hermeticists, culminating in the Industrial Age Golden Dawn system from which so much of later Hermeticism developed. Certain Kabbalistic elements continue to play an important part in Neohermeticism even today.
[Hebrew - from the verbal root kabal to receive, hand down]