Humans 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
- Used to deliver the returned BioGel and supplies to the colony.
- No propulsion or ownership is described.
- Possibly Cookie, though his species is not stated
- Human appearance remains broadly recognizable.
- Cybernetic augmentation is available.
- Synthetic AI serve as commissioned or ranked officers aboard the Dominatrix II.
- They can operate Bridge stations, serve as acting captain, pilot or support a mission, and participate in armed ground combat.
- Jack has a cybernetic ocular implant with sensory and targeting functions.
- Yvonne’s language suggests BioGel may be food, medicine, a biological supply, or a multipurpose survival commodity.
- Celebrated on December 24–25 in 2600 and 2603.
- Associated with family, hope, light in darkness, carols, stockings, gifts, decorations, Santa Claus, elves, Christmas trees, garlands, candy canes, festive food and drink, and the greeting “Merry Christmas.”
- Celebrated by humans, Talonor, Frosnik’s species, raiders, synthetic AI, and possibly other mixed populations.
- Can be expressed through improvised decorations using available materials.
- Jack initially sees it as commercialized hypocrisy and a traumatic reminder.
- Jack later interprets it as care, protection, hope, courage, and mercy.
- Frosnik uses gift giving to express parental love but initially undermines it by offering stolen property.
- Branel associates honest conduct with the meaning of a proper gift.
- Gifts carry moral meaning beyond material value.
- Stolen gifts damage Branel’s trust in Frosnik.
- Returned property restores Branel’s pride in his father.
- Eisgait colony, once its canonical name is known
- Eisgait raider encampment
- Frosnik and Branel’s species
- Artificial intelligence
- Christmas gift giving
- Holographic entertainment
- BlackHoleBucks seasonal branding
- Whether the AI remains aboard
- Yvonne before reconstruction
- Vulnerable to hypoxia more quickly than Harsikans.
- Human consciousness can be mapped and written to a synthetic lattice with experimental technology.
¶ 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
Humans 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 — the subject appears or is directly referenced in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Inheritance — the subject appears or is directly referenced in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — the subject appears or is directly referenced in this work.
¶ See Also
- Artificial Intelligence — Artificial Intelligence appears in the documented history of Humans; Novastar institutions develop or inherit artificial intelligence and bloodline-based authority.
- Harsikans — Harsikans appears in the documented history of Humans; Harsikans are large lizard-like people with scales, claws, sharp teeth, tails, exceptional strength, efficient lungs, and lithotrophic evolutionary adaptations.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel appears in the documented history of Humans; The third Starship Dominatrix novel follows the crew through rival AI nations, the War of Flesh and Steel, and the consequences of corrupted Talonorium.
- Dominatrix II — Dominatrix II appears in the documented history of Humans; The SSS Dominatrix II is the successor ship commanded by Jack Kaiden after the Chimera Kyria's apparent fall.
- Biogel — Biogel appears in the documented history of Humans; A medical substance used to stabilize, protect, or repair damaged bodies and tissues.
- BlackHoleBucks — BlackHoleBucks appears in the documented history of Humans; A widespread café chain known for elaborate coffee orders, aggressive seasonal branding, and locations across Earth and The Sphere.
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