The Maitdiné are time-walking beings connected to Talonorium and the repair of spacetime. Htonmin stories describe repairers who intervene when reality fractures; direct appearances substantially corroborate those accounts. Moonshade is the principal named Maitdiné.
Maitdiné help repair the fissures created by Jack and Talonor's temporal history, guide the New Jack crisis, and officiate the Great Healing. Their exact biological, synthetic, extradimensional, or augmented nature remains unresolved.
¶ Nature
Maitdiné existence depends on Talonorium. PISCES, a proposed system that would destroy all Talonorium structures, would also kill them. Moonshade prevents its deployment.
They perceive and traverse time differently from ordinary species. Their interventions do not make every timeline outcome fully explained or remove individual agency.
¶ Temporal Repair
Maitdiné visibly repair a fissure after Talonor proposes to Jack. During the later wedding rupture, Moonshade relocates New Jack, names the combined identity, and arranges the selection process that stabilizes reality.
Moonshade also returns Jack from a possible future involving John's presidential interview.
¶ Great Healing
Moonshade loses and later regains attunement, helps interpret Jack and Talonor's bond, and officiates the Great Healing with the Nine.
Afterward, future Moonshade travels three thousand years into the past, heals the altar fragment, and installs it, completing the closed loop behind the Nine Divine prophecy.
¶ Uncertainties
Canon does not fully classify Maitdiné origin, reproduction, social structure, or physical ontology.
¶ Appearances
- Starship Dominatrix — Maitdiné appears in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Inheritance — Maitdiné appears in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — Maitdiné appears in this work.
¶ See Also
- Htonmin — Htonmin appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; Htonmin are a biological people and Stellar United Nations civilization whose mythology preserves accounts of the Maitdiné.
- Moonshade — Moonshade appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; Moonshade is a Maitdiné keeper of time, Talonorium attunement figure, architect of the New Jack resolution, and officiant of the Great Healing.
- PISCES — PISCES appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; PISCES was a proposed system capable of destroying all Talonorium structures.
- Talonorium — Talonorium appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; Talonorium, also called The Element, is a sacred living or person-like substrate capable of memory, bonding, choice, corruption, and healing.
- Great Healing — Great Healing appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; The Great Healing was a galaxy-spanning Talonorium restoration performed at the Temple of Korathis by Moonshade, Jack, Talonor, and the Nine.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel appears in the documented history of Maitdiné; The third Starship Dominatrix novel follows the crew through rival AI nations, the War of Flesh and Steel, and the consequences of corrupted Talonorium.
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