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	Ta'pa'kia'i -- Her older brother; middle child at the time of the story. Has something of a sister complex about Tama'ita'i.		Ta'pa'kia'i -- Her older brother; middle child at the time of the story. Has something of a sister complex about Tama'ita'i.
			[[File:Screenshot 2025-10-10 at 19-02-38 3.mp4-1200x1800x300dpi.jpg\|thumb\|Tama'ita'i in the shopping street]]
	Ke'ma'a'ki -- Her older sister; eldest child of the family.		Ke'ma'a'ki -- Her older sister; eldest child of the family.

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			[[File:All Precious Stones and Peoples kindle cover 320x480.jpg\|thumb\|Kindle Cover]]
	''All Precious Stones and Peoples'' is a novella in the ''Timelines'' series. It takes place on the planet [[Coleridge (Planet)\|Coleridge]] (which orbits the B2.5 star [[Nunki (Star System)\|Nunki]] (Sigma Sagittarii) approximately 228-250 ly from Sol), and is (1) a follow-on to [[A Huntress On The Rocks\|''A Huntress On The Rocks'']] and (2) a sort of prequel to [[The Lion and the Logic\|''The Lion and the Logic'']].		''All Precious Stones and Peoples'' is a novella in the ''Timelines'' series. It takes place on the planet [[Coleridge (Planet)\|Coleridge]] (which orbits the B2.5 star [[Nunki (Star System)\|Nunki]] (Sigma Sagittarii) approximately 228-250 ly from Sol), and is (1) a follow-on to [[A Huntress On The Rocks\|''A Huntress On The Rocks'']] and (2) a sort of prequel to [[The Lion and the Logic\|''The Lion and the Logic'']].

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	The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with consonant and vowel structures similar to those of Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)		The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with consonant and vowel structures similar to those of Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)

	A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'pa" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.		A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'pa'i" comes from the original form and "'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.

	ik'ka'ta -- megawhales		ik'ka'ta -- megawhales

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			a'i'ka'te'ru -- typhoon, often super-typhoon

	World Ocean		World Ocean

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	''All Precious Stones and Peoples'' is a novella in the ''Timelines'' series. It takes place on the planet [[Coleridge (Planet)\|Coleridge]] (which orbits the B2.5 star Nunki (Sigma Sagittarii) approximately 228-250 ly from Sol), and is a follow-on to [[A Huntress On The Rocks]].		''All Precious Stones and Peoples'' is a novella in the ''Timelines'' series. It takes place on the planet [[Coleridge (Planet)\|Coleridge]] (which orbits the B2.5 star [[Nunki (Star System)\|Nunki]] (Sigma Sagittarii) approximately 228-250 ly from Sol), and is (1) a follow-on to [[A Huntress On The Rocks\|''A Huntress On The Rocks'']] and (2) a sort of prequel to [[The Lion and the Logic\|''The Lion and the Logic'']].

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	In the end they got very lucky and were headed in pretty much the right direction for the drive to pull it off.		In the end they got very lucky and were headed in pretty much the right direction for the drive to pull it off.

			'''Because I had to figure it out for the story:''' The star they came from is ~86 light years from Nunki. In something like a million years, they traveled 506.6 trillion miles at a speed just over their planet's orbital speed around that star, which was somewhere around 50,000 miles per hour. The Visitor didn't really "tear" the planet away so much as it pulled it gently out of orbit by increasing its orbital speed enough to break orbit and spiral away from the star.

			The star they came from is unknown in Earth catalogs because it's been behind Nunki from our perspective for hundreds of years, and the light from blue-giant Nunki probably drowns it out anyway. For the pedantic, it's a G3V, slightly smaller, slightly redder, and slightly cooler than Sol (a G2V).

	[[Category:Timelines]]		[[Category:Timelines]]
	[[Category:Books]]		[[Category:Books]]

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	The language of the People mostly follows a phonology similar to that of the [[wikipedia:Hawaiian_phonology\|Hawai'ian language.]] There are only a few consonants -- roughly, p, k, t, h, m, n, l, r, w and v, along with a glottal stop (ʔ, [[wikipedia:Glottal_stop\|IPA 113]]). The vowels are much the same as those in Japanese, with long, medium, and short versions (so, 5 vowels voiced as many as 15 different ways). Of course all of this is transliterated from the clicks and chirps and squeaks of the actual language used by the dolphin-like People.		The language of the People mostly follows a phonology similar to that of the [[wikipedia:Hawaiian_phonology\|Hawai'ian language.]] There are only a few consonants -- roughly, p, k, t, h, m, n, l, r, w and v, along with a glottal stop (ʔ, [[wikipedia:Glottal_stop\|IPA 113]]). The vowels are much the same as those in Japanese, with long, medium, and short versions (so, 5 vowels voiced as many as 15 different ways). Of course all of this is transliterated from the clicks and chirps and squeaks of the actual language used by the dolphin-like People.

	The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with ~~similar~~ consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)		The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with consonant and vowel structures similar to those of Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)

	A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'pa" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.		A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'pa" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.

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	The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with similar consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)		The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with similar consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)

	A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'ta" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.		A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'pa" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.

	ik'ka'ta -- megawhales		ik'ka'ta -- megawhales

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	== Characters ==		== Characters ==
	Ta'at'iki -- Astronomer		Ta'at'iki -- Astronomer; later Chief Astronomer

	Ha'at'kiti -- Assistant Astronomer		Ha'at'kiti -- Assistant Astronomer; later Senior Astronomer

	Tama'ita'i -- The Foretold One, the Saintess		Tama'ita'i -- The Foretold One, the Saintess, Speaker to the Dry Ones. Youngest child of Ta'at'iki and Ha'at'kiti.

			Ta'pa'kia'i -- Her older brother; middle child at the time of the story. Has something of a sister complex about Tama'ita'i.

			Ke'ma'a'ki -- Her older sister; eldest child of the family.

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	The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with similar consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)		The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with similar consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)

	A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'ta" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.		A'ka'pa'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'ta" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.

	ik'ka'ta -- megawhales		ik'ka'ta -- megawhales

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	== Terminology ==		== Terminology ==
			The language of the People mostly follows a phonology similar to that of the [[wikipedia:Hawaiian_phonology\|Hawai'ian language.]] There are only a few consonants -- roughly, p, k, t, h, m, n, l, r, w and v, along with a glottal stop (ʔ, [[wikipedia:Glottal_stop\|IPA 113]]). The vowels are much the same as those in Japanese, with long, medium, and short versions (so, 5 vowels voiced as many as 15 different ways). Of course all of this is transliterated from the clicks and chirps and squeaks of the actual language used by the dolphin-like People.

			The language of the Progenitors is/was a human-type language, with similar consonant and vowel structures to Western languages. This language can't be spoken by the People, but it is taught in the schools because of the sheer amount of literature written in that language. (It should be noted that Tama'ita'i can speak ''both'' the Progenitor language and the language of the People properly.)

	A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'ta" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.		A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti -- The People. This is a corrupted form of "A'akapiei'ida". "A'ka'ta" comes from the original form and "'i'ka'ti" is a somewhat debased form of the local dialect meaning "lost ones". It goes back to the half-formed idea I have that the A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti were a group of A'akapiei'ida who were lost in space after a catastrophic singularity drive failure, and ended up colonizing a planet in some unknown corner of the universe after being unable to repair or replace the drive. Which is why they exist despite the idea that only the A'akapiei'ida and the Darkness are "native" to our bubble universe, and all the other races were created in the Simulation later. The term A'ka'ta'i'ka'ti applies to both the original human-like and gene-altered dolphin-like versions of the lost group.

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	Ha'at'kiti -- Assistant Astronomer		Ha'at'kiti -- Assistant Astronomer

	Tama'ita'i -- The Foretold One		Tama'ita'i -- The Foretold One, the Saintess

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	A '''Cycle''' is one revolution around Coleridge's star. This takes 2,050 Earth years (the planet is 320 AU from its primary). A '''Smallcycle''' approximates the People's original year prior to the visitation -- the fourth planet circled its sun in about 627 T-standard days, or 519 Turnings/Coleridge days (and this is the way the People count their ages). A '''Great Cycle''' is 1000 Cycles (2,050,000 Earth years), and a '''Greater Cycle''' is ten Great Cycles (20,500,000 Earth years).		A '''Cycle''' is one revolution around Coleridge's star. This takes 2,050 Earth years (the planet is 320 AU from its primary). A '''Smallcycle''' approximates the People's original year prior to the visitation -- the fourth planet circled its sun in about 627 T-standard days, or 519 Turnings/Coleridge days (and this is the way the People count their ages). A '''Great Cycle''' is 1000 Cycles (2,050,000 Earth years), and a '''Greater Cycle''' is ten Great Cycles (20,500,000 Earth years).

	A '''Turning''' is one of Coleridge's 29-hour (T-standard) days. A '''Great Turning''' is a thousand days. A '''Greater Turning''' is a thousand thousand (a million) days. This makes a Turning about 1.21 T-standard days.		A '''Turning''' is one of Coleridge's 29-hour (T-standard) days. A '''Great Turning''' is a thousand days. A '''Greater Turning''' is a thousand thousand (a million) days. This makes a Turning about 1.21 T-standard days, and a Smallcycle is thus about 1.42 T-standard years. (The time between Coleridge's discovery by humans (2047 AD) and the advent of Tama'ita'i the Saintess's first encounter with a human submersible (2345 AD) is therefore about 209.8 Smallcycles.)

	A Cycle as defined above is around 619,241 Coleridge days (748,250 Earth days). Thus a full Cycle consists of just over 60% of a Greater Turning, or as the People would likely put it, about 620 Great Turnings.		A Cycle as defined above is around 619,241 Coleridge days (748,250 Earth days). Thus a full Cycle consists of just over 60% of a Greater Turning, or as the People would likely put it, about 620 Great Turnings.