Valos is a canonical location, population, species, or cultural subject in the Starship Dominatrix setting. Its importance derives from the people who live there, the institutions that control or contest it, and the events that connect it to the series' larger history.
The available sources do not support invented geography, population figures, biology, or government. This article therefore gives the complete established record while identifying details that remain unknown.
¶ Identity and Classification
Alternate names in the title refer to the same subject unless the canon later distinguishes them. A location may change political control without becoming a different place, while a species or community remains internally diverse rather than sharing one universal ideology.
¶ Known Events
- Remains the continuing former New Jack while struggling with Old Jack's trauma and memories.
- Violates Yvonne's autonomy under X3's wider coercive plan and later accepts that context does not entitle him to forgiveness.
- Conceals X3's implant occupation through coded speech, an EMP, and the dual-boot simulation.
- Becomes the unwilling center of the Voidborn religion and lies to preserve the counteroperation.
- Publicly renounces divinity and gives the Voidborn freedom to leave.
- Weaponizes X3's truth architecture with a false VIRGO history.
- Dominatrix II — MAJOR: ship, crew community, Voidborn pilgrimage site, occupied battlefield, funeral setting, and Epilogue discovery site.
- Black Echo Keep — MAJOR: Ragnarok repository holding the corrupted Shard.
- ARC / Artifact Research Center — MAJOR: Spearhead research site and Occulum vault.
- Vera Station 5 — MAJOR SUPPORTING: site of X3's wiped arrival and Chimera Kyria induction.
- Washington Central Detention Facility — MAJOR: Yvonne and Kjersten's detention, interface discovery, and mass breakout.
- Drea / AR-4 — SUPPORTING: Artog restoration setting.
- Art Vorluun / First Hearth — MAJOR SUPPORTING: settlement targeted under X3's coercion.
- Pod 2 memorial garden — SUPPORTING: site of Chlo's funeral.
- Vantam Rift — MAJOR: Occulum-rich region and final X3 confrontation.
- Lahvala homeworld — MAJOR: colonized world associated with Occulum extraction and plague.
- Occulum mine — MAJOR: suppresses Talonorium abilities during the final plan.
- Valos — MAJOR SUPPORTING: destination for meeting Avarael and orbital setting of the Epilogue.
- Blue Wave City — MAJOR UNRESOLVED: next lead in Chlo's backup plan.
- Unknown Avarael black site — MAJOR UNRESOLVED: allegedly Occulum-lined former Chimera Kyria facility.
- Dominatrix II — MAJOR: continuing primary vessel.
- DSS Crucible — MAJOR SUPPORTING: X3's Domain command vessel.
- SSS Roc — SUPPORTING: Rift Vanguard Six transport during Black Echo retrieval.
- Voidborn fleet — MAJOR: reaches 1,209 vessels before the theological exposure.
- Voidborn defense fleet — MAJOR: 128 committed vessels, all destroyed.
- Domain armada — MAJOR: approximately 2,400 ships that later retreat.
- Exact rank authority
- Knowledge of the truth behind Kayla’s case
- Whether the coercive framing is institutional necessity, manipulation, or both
- Relationship to later shapeshifter Pailisto material
- John’s wife and mother of Yvonne and Jack.
- Resistance member.
¶ History
The subject's recorded history intersects with Chimera Kyria expansion, Resistance operations, The Sphere, AI liberation, post-imperial politics, religious movements, or family history as applicable. Later political control does not erase the experiences of earlier residents, prisoners, combatants, or displaced people.
Where testimony comes from captors, occupiers, or hostile institutions, it remains attributed rather than treated as neutral fact. Where the sources provide two spellings or an uncertain identification, both remain visible until author-controlled canon resolves the issue.
¶ Society and Culture
Biological species, artificial communities, and mixed societies in the setting contain individual people with different beliefs and loyalties. Liberation does not make every AI a member of the same faction. Religion, gender, work, family, sexuality, and political identity remain matters of personal and cultural choice.
¶ Narrative Significance
Valos provides a setting or social framework for conflicts involving empire, autonomy, memory, faith, exploitation, and repair. Its importance may be concentrated in one incident or extend across several generations. A short appearance does not make the subject noncanonical.
¶ Appearances
- U and I — the subject appears or is directly referenced in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — the subject appears or is directly referenced in this work.
¶ See Also
- Unknown Avarael Black Site — Unknown Avarael Black Site appears in the documented history of Valos; Unknown Avarael black site — MAJOR UNRESOLVED: allegedly Occulum-lined former Chimera Kyria facility.
- Dominatrix II — Dominatrix II appears in the documented history of Valos; The SSS Dominatrix II is the successor ship commanded by Jack Kaiden after the Chimera Kyria's apparent fall.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis appears in the documented history of Valos; The fourth Starship Dominatrix novel brings Jack and the crew into a final conflict with X3, corrupted power, coercion, memory, and belief.
- Drea / AR-4 — Drea / AR-4 appears in the documented history of Valos; The Artog homeworld where the Dominatrix II crew supports ecological and cultural restoration.
- Lahvala Homeworld — Lahvala Homeworld appears in the documented history of Valos; The Lahvalan world associated with Occulum extraction, colonial exploitation, and a devastating plague.
- Art Vorluun / First Hearth — Art Vorluun / First Hearth appears in the documented history of Valos; A restored Artog settlement on Drea, also called First Hearth, targeted while Jack is under X3's coercion.
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