g places, the central offices of most news
services, and so on. (For reference, it is approximately half again
the size of the state of Delaware.)

PALACE, IMPERIAL: A building four kilometers square, situated in the
center of the Palace Complex. It is roughly a quarter public areas,
about a third (including the Empire's best medical facility)
semi-public, and the remainder private for Palace residents and guests.

PALACE STANDARD TIME: Called Greenwich Mean Time prior to the Empire,
this is the official time kept at the Imperial Palace and aboard all
military (and most other) craft in space. It is also used throughout
Xanadu, the only world known to have only one time zone.

PALLAS, Subsector 18-B:
No. systems: 149 Sector: Aries
with 3 inhabited planets: 3 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 10
with 1 inhabited planet: 25

PAN, Subsector 8-D:
No. systems: 80 Sector: Centaurus
with 3 inhabited planets: 1 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 10
with 1 inhabited planet: 26

PATTERN RAPPORT: An involuntary and extremely rare aspect of Talent in
which two minds are completely merged for a brief time. Irschchan
theory is that it happens when the parties' underminds decide it is
necessary to resolve an impasse or conflict.

PEACELORD: Ranger Esteban Tarlac, once he has passed his Ordeal and
died. The last member of the Traiti Circle of Lords, his first act as
Lord Esteban was to make possible an immediate, honorable end to the
Traiti War.

PEACELORD, Subsector 21-B:
No. systems: 57 Sector: Traiti
with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 12
with 1 inhabited planet: 22

PEGASUS, Sector 5:
Ruled by: No. systems: 386
Subsectors: 4 Inhabited planets: 215
A. Bayard C. Traveler
B. Sleipnir D. Sandeman

PERIDOPICLES: Ducal family, Sector 14. Legend has it that this family
was cursed when the first Duke, Orion, defeated the "witch" Lilith and
destroyed the Blue Crystal from which she gained her powers. As she
was dying, she pronounced the curse that death would visit Orion's
heirs through their children. The line is, in fact, subject to a
genetic defect which is fatal to seventy-five percent of the children
and can, in a way that has not yet be