A company specializing in the design and manufacture of service and pleasure droids. Handy Andi is the largest such company in the Known Multiverse, though the most well-thought-of purveyor of pleasure droids is Living Doll Cybernetics.

A prison for women on planet 007 in the heart of the Xychromo Zone, Heart Knox purportedly houses an unusual number of political prisoners, which is not so unusual, if you know anything about the Xychromo Zone. While classified as a maximum-security correctional facility, Heart Knox is, for many of the more troublesome prisoners, merely a stopover on their way to much harder time, usually served on an Omega Disque.

Probably the most famous and beloved of the Omegazons, Sonja Henna was the Ninth Trivia of the Tribes and the first Trivia to make contact with cultures beyond the Omegan System. She also popularized the Galatian Games, a springtime planting festival held in honor of Galatia the Maiden, First Daughter of the Star Mother and her consort (the young god of the wind), who brought the secret of flight to the Tribes. The athletic competition extends over a 7-unit period and is followed by a jargon-long fertility rite. At the opening ceremony for the Galatian Games Cycle AE 150, Sonja Henna announced that she would never bed a man she couldn’t beat in battle. An anxious murmur rippled through the crowd. According to Omedazon belief, the fertility of the filed was directly linked to the sexual performance of the High Priestess. By laying a condition on the distribution of her favors, Sonja Henna was booting with the cosmic order. Henna fought well, defeating 28 opponents in seven days—an auspicious sign—and a good time was had by all.

Boatswain McCarrigan Higgs

In Cycle 142 AE, McCarrigan Higgs, a Boatswain in the Amercadian Space Brigade, blasted his way into history via Rec Station News, after overdosing on android life in one of Rec 97’s many RIP parlors. Though some (see: Pico, Nick “The Geezer”) have said what Higgs experienced was a rare allergic reaction, rather than an OD, the evidence for that is slim to zilch. In any case, after being heard to shout, “I’m feeling lucky!”, Higgs rampaged through many levels of the station, from the Vale of Tiers to Nouvelle Orleans and Boardwalk, shooting his blaster wildly and randomly, both into the crowd and at various storefronts and signs. The incident ended with Higgs barreling into Boardwalk’s posh nightclub and casino, The Dome, and inadvertently winning the Super Fireball quintuple jackpot after tripping into the game’s reverso-grav ball chute. So yes, lucky, were it not for the fact that Bosun Higgs died when his brain melted mere ribecs later and he shuffled off this mortal coil, while lying on a bed of gold-toned Dome tokens worth 160 million standard galactic credits. The whole episode was recorded by Rootersnoos ferret Jimmy the Snout, whose report won a Spacer’s Choice award for Best Senseless Violence in Infotainment. Footage fetched by Snout’s Be & See Reals showed that Higgs had been coerced into the RIP parlor by his friend, Tech Officer Gus Gorfman, thus ending not only the life of Higgs, but the career of Gorfman.

A rather infamous pawn shop in the Shallows section of the Gutters (see: Gutters), Recreation Station 97, billing itself as “Last Chance 4 Cash, Before You C Life Dealers!” Patronized by incorrigible lowlifes and down-on-his-or-her-luckers, Brigaders on shore leave and Galactic Girl Guides looking to unload some recently acquired swag, Honest John’s is, for most spacing sentients, the next-to-last stop on a one-way shuttle to Nowheresville. Last stop being the aforementioned life dealers, of course.

Ionized Hydrogen Beam; a destructive  beam generated by a neutral particle beam weapon that ionizes hydrogen gas by allowing each hydrogen atom to capture an extra electron, so that the hydrogen molecules form anions. The weapon  accelerates anions by using a traveling wave-type particle accelerator, which releases negative ions inside a cylindrical chamber. When the chamber’s alternating electric charge is positive, the ions are attracted to the negative charge on the electrode, and thus gather around it. Then, the alternating voltage switches the charge to negative, electrostatically repelling the negative ions, thereby accelerating them to something close to the velocity of light. The resulting beam passes through a chamber filled with low pressure gas, where collisions with the gas strip the extra electrons from the anions, transforming the particle beam into a neutral Hyon Beam, which speeds to its target, and obliterates it by disrupting the target’s structure with kinetic energy. A word of advice: Don’t stand in front of one.