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Kidifi III

home to the famous derived clade of Colbiörnsens, the G-Terl, who during the Gatzoflia Incident 7422 became the only su to have defeated a hyperturing entity. This was later (in 7521) shown to be deliberate pretence on the part the hyperturing,

Killer T. Sarro8

Action hero cyborg psychopath from the late first federation period

Sio-Ping Kim

Seminal figure in the establishment of the First Federation, Sio-Ping Kim of New Tycho was closely allied to the AI alliance calling themselves the Restorers, and became their spokesperson/evangelist to the many disparate habitats. Showing considerable independence and integrity, he was unanimously voted chairman of the Federation Council at the foundation.

Anders Sandberg

kinesiology

The coordination of nerves, muscles, and joints required for physical activities

Kinetic Technician

a being skilled in applying just the right amount of force.

Very useful in large numbers of occupations. Often a being with a physical body and extreme control thereof - borg, vec, brushbot, etc. A notable subset are unaugmented hu, often the butt of much augmented humor.

John B

Kingdom

In some forms of Linnean system of hierarchical classification, a kingdom is the highest grouping of similar organisms. Alternatively, the hierarchical grade between Phylum and Domain

A kingdom contains one or more phyla (plural of phylum). The number of Kingdoms differs according to the type of classification used; often Kingdoms are in turn grouped into Domains, and Domains into Origins (each separate development of life from inorganic matter constitutes a distinct Origin). When Domains and strict cladistics are not considered, Terragen Life is traditionally divided into five kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista (protozoans and eucaryotic algae), and Monera (bacteria blue-green algae).

kingdom

A primary toposophic grade (sophont, transapient, power, etc). Sometimes also used in a more generic sense of an unspecified phyle or clade - e.g. the hu kingdom, the vec kingdom, the insect kingdom

M.Alan Kazlev

Kiyoshi

MPA system famed for its Dyson sphere.

Kiyoshi Sector

MPA interstellar district (capital Kiyoshi); half the empires megascale projects and one third of the population are found here.

Kja Observance

Biocentric vec religion

The Vec religion Kja Observance or biology worship, tolerated but not sanctioned by Metasoft, has two main dogmatic schools,pertaining to the amount and quality of revered biological matter incorporated into the body of the believer. A third school - Virtual Kja Observance - has developed and spread to the rival Vec house of the Silicon Generation.

Steve Bowers

KJEI-54-458945

Neutron star in the Einstein's Revenge Cluster, home to Hildemar's knots

Klank

A fairly common vec brushbot physical control mode which is noted for its unarmed combat potential.

Klank is nicknamed for the deliberately disorienting noises created by a practitioner when in conflict with a biologic being. (It is a common baseline hu misconception that all Klank movements are noisy. In fact, there is no wasted energy in the physical generation of sound - rather, the psyops package included in the primary Klank release offers significant auditory options, depending on vec construction and goals.) Most brushbots with Klank coding tend to refer to it by its proper binary encoding memory reference scheme, 101001110101101111011011010110101110110011010101.

John B

Klarus

61 Ursae Majoris III - - former megacorp world, during the Imperialization and Empires Eras one of the richest Inner Sphere economic centers, devastated during the Version war with unbelievable loss of life, during the ComEmp and Fragmentation eras became an important romanticist center, currently important tourist center and home to many artistic/aesthetic activities. Site of the Perfect Garden, one of the largest collections of Perfect Art

216 Kleopatra

216 Kleopatra major asteroid, Main Belt, Sol System.

The original Kleopatra was a bone-shaped asteroid about 217 kilometers long and 94 kilometers wide. This unusual asteroid was discovered and named in 1880, but its shape was only discovered in 2000. The asteroid was colonised during the middle interplanetary period, and for a while became something of a local financial center, later a data haven with independence declared from the CisLunar Orbital Alliance. In 498 the "Ground Zero" nanite infected Kleopatra, killing 1373 people. The entire asteroid was quarantined, and despite vigorous blue goo countermeasures the infestation spread into the bedrock. Kleopatra was only made safe in the 8th century. During the early first First Federation it was made a scientific research station. Rumours that the asteroid was haunted inspired a whole string of popular and increasingly ludicrous adventure virches (Inscape's 5Roger Halliday and the Hidden Crypt eventually became a B-grade classic, rivalling Bester Interactives' Posthuman Hermaphrodites from the Large Magellanic Cloud in terms of plot corn and bad production ratings). With the closing of Kleopatra Base in the 1200s the whole asteroid was opened to developers, and several consortia of theme park developers each tried to outdo themselves, giving the asteroid the nick-name "Little Disneyplanet". With the frontier moving outwards, more efficient ships, and the slow decline of the Federation, business slumped, and Kleopatra was slowly abandoned. In the wake of the Solar Civil War it was taken over by squatters and claim jumpers. Eventually order was restored, and the asteroid was partitioned up for habitat development. Presently the population numbers some 1.2 million, mostly old near-baseline clades and a few minor local houses claiming ancestry back to the original post Civil War squatters. The asteroid, for the last 300 years an affiliated sub-polity, does a reasonable trade in tourism and historical recreation.

M.Alan Kazlev

Klixix

The Klixix are one of a very large number of isolationist clades, presumably Diamond Network in origin.

The name is based on the staccato nature of their communications (if indeed these intense bursts of EM radiation are communications, and not just, as some have suggested, a side-effect of their ship's drive system). Despite some local mythology that the klixix are authentic alien bionts, it is almost certain that they are a clade of highly derived terragen aioids, possibly employing specialised photopicotech technology, and descended from early explorational isolationist ai, although their association with the Diamond Network and/or the Solipsist Panvirtuality is still unclear. Their iridescent, spherical spacecraft are occasionally encountered along the Carina Arm.

based on original entry by Kevin Self, this adaptation by M.Alan Kazlev

knowbot

Knowledge robot, a data miner or intelligent search agent, a type of software-only aioid, instructed by users to scan networks for various kinds of related information, regardless of the language or form in which it expressed. May be turing or subturing grade

knowledge engineering

design and construction of intelligent and semi-intelligent systems.

In other words, the art and science of designing and building expert systems, aioids, and ais. In particular this involves collecting knowledge and heuristic rules from sophont and hyperturing experts in their area of speciality and assembling them into a knowledge base or expert system.

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