Glossary

Amarla Dane, a brief glossary

• Amarla is a unique name that was crafted from two names of the same girl, with whom I was in love back in youthful days ;), Amanda and Darla. Amanda was into cosplay, and invented the character Darla Vader, a female version of Darth Vader, that is how it came about. Darth Vader character and name are the copyright of the Walt Disney company, it is not infringed in any way!

• Azqua: Azqua is a planet in a parallel universe, it is inhabited by the Azquans, who are a very advanced energy based life-form. The queen 'Azqua Va', affectionately known as Va, has 12 strands of DNA, she infuses her subjects with 4 strands each of various variations to achieve various societal functions in a manner similar to bees on earth. The queen reigns for a thousand years and is the depository of all ancestral knowledge while she is in power, then all is transferred to a new queen in the great millennial ceremony. The Azquan subjects are fully dependent on the queen for survival, however, they have total free will. They love and respect her as their mother and afford her total obedience. There were very few futile instances of rebellion in their entire history, such an incident has taken place shortly after Amarla was saved by the transfusion of queen Va's DNA.

• DNA infusion and augmentation: This is a process that Va used in a disparate attempt to save Amarla after she has been found near death, it involves placing the subject in a an infusion tube, which is a large tank filled with special extract of Va's DNA, all the subjects have to periodically go through this to regenerate, it is referred to as the RegenCycle. The augmentation process was used to graft the alien DNA onto Amarla's human DNA, it is done using a special machine designed by the queen.

• Phase shifting: Azquans have the ability to modulate energy by changing their frequency, thus leaping from a matter-state to an energy-state, which is the normal Azquan appearance, but in various levels of luminescence according to their ranks. Va is the most brilliant! Other intermediate states can also be achieved, which enables them to acquire the shape of other things including humans.

• Matriarchal Council : These are seven Azquans appointed by Va and imbued with two extra DNA strands, they hold meetings to discuss and regulate matters relating to their hive on earth, under the queen, but they have an independent say and vote.

• Pulse & Jolt: One of the defence mechanisms used by the Azquans, it resembles a fiery tornado of electromagnetic waves that engulf an attacker and render him/her/it paralysed, it would not kill normally, however it could if intensity is increased.

• Inter-dimensional rift: A huge fissure occurred in the continuum of the multi- verse due to a mysterious and massive explosion that hurled Va and her royal

entourage across the multi-verse onto the earth through that crack. Va was just returning from her royal inauguration ceremony. It is generally thought to be an attempt on her life, but the culprit couldn't be determined.

• The Great Azquan War: This huge war was the culmination of many smaller wars between the Azquans and the Zoradians, a neighbouring race who are much less civilized and conform to a militarized and an aggressive way of life, they were utterly defeated.

• The great millennial ceremony: It is a huge event in the Azquans life, where the reigning queen hands over the queenship with all that it embodies to a chosen one and she just goes back to be a part of the universal energy of the multiverse from which she has once emerged. As the name suggests, it occurs only once in every thousand Azquan years!