I made this drawing on about 1990. J'ai dessine ceci, en 1990. Ce dictionnaire s'adresse surtout aux anglophones; les francophones sont plus habitués au style européen de la BD. ENGLISH On this specific post, I will maintain a dictionary of names, words, expressions, abbreviations, shorthand and acronyms that are only meaningful for the "Ionivka : Big-Feet Mutant" series (and used for 2 or more episodes). I will update this list at regular intervals. I wrote this dictionary for helping English-speaking people into getting a better understanding of the epic Ionivka series that is written in French (and French-style storytelling). Even though I provide a summary, even a translation, in English, I am still using a French storytelling style. Even though it is a science-fiction story, it is focused on the psychological journey of the main characters and in the sociological context. Events that occurred earlier in Ionivka's life have major impacts later. YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT RIGHT AWAY COMPLETELY. This dictionary could be useful when you encounter an unknown word in my English translation (or summary) of a page of my Ionivka series. Keep a link to this page. Here are the dictionaries for the Ionivka series. DICTIONARY OF CHARACTERS Audrée Berval : She is a genius Big-Feet mutant who was in the same high school as Ionivka. Bérèle Mathurin : She is a Big-Feet mutant and the mother or Marc Mathurin and the personal maid of Ms. Taylor. Boris Permenko : The Fine-Eyes father of Ionivka and Igor Captain Morgan : A non-mutant man who is a "provincial" ruler within the Norcan coalition; he owns at least 100 000 Big-Feet slaves under him; Ionivka is one of them. Commodore Morgan : Captain Morgan after his promotion as one of the 2 commodores for the top ruler of the Norcan coalition : the Admiral. Dr Wong : A Fine-Eyes man who is the director of the CraaTerm test site. Dr Jiwoo : A Fine-Eyes man who is the second in command after Dr. Wong. Foline Sifela : The Big-Feet girl friend of Mirvine Terovsda. Igor Permenko : He is a Fine-Eyes mutant and the brother of Ionivka Ionivka Permenko : The main character of this series, she is a transfixed Big-Feet mutant. Iuskyva Permenko : She is a Big-Feet mutant and the mother of Ionivka and Igor. Marc Mathurin : He is a transfixed Big-Feet male who became the boyfriend of Ionivka. Mevina : She is a genius Big-Feet mutant and the enforcing representative of Dr. wong on all Big-Feet females within the CraaTerm test site. Michette Dirittian : She is a regular Big-Feet mutant and a close friend of Ionivka. Mirova : She is a Big-Feet mutant, and the representative of Dr. Wong on the Big-Feet specialized staff. Mirvine Terovsda : She is Big-Feet mutant who discovered the posthumous letter of Ionivka who died 75 years before. Ms. Taylor : She is a non-mutant; she is the director of the whole education system for the Big-Feet mutants that are owned by Captain Morgan. Professor Exand : He is a genius Big-Feet mutant; he has invented the most performing ionic propulsion engines, and he is the university professor of Ionivka Permenko. Professor Verlan : He is a genius Big-Feet mutant; he has invented the delta type fusion reactor technology, and he is the university professor of Marc Mathurin. Slavish Nersku : She is a transfixed Big-Feet mutant, a high school friend of Ionivka. DICTIONARY OF PLACES, AREAS AND BUILDINGS CraaTerm (F/E) : Cratère Aux Termites Crater of Termites : A huge test site, for prototypes of ionic propulsion engines and for nuclear fusion reactors, that is located in an ancient desertic crater within the Yfer coalition borders. Instirium : The Institute of Deuterium; it is a research and development center on advanced technology on deuterium-based fusion reactors. Norcan : A coalition of countries (or provinces) where non-mutants are the members of the dominant population. Termite House : A large, sprawling semi-underground building that is used as the living quarters for those who are working at the CraaTerm test site. This building can handle tornadoes. UTN : French acronym for the Université en Technologies de Norcan : Norcan Technology University. The university where Ionivka studied and got her engineering degree. Yfer : A coalition of countries (or provinces) where Fine-Eyes mutants are the members of the dominant population. Reserved Park : A large park with trees and vegetation that are divided into semi-intimate enclosures that can be used by Big-Feet students and staff of the UTN; each enclosure can be rented for a few hours. DICTIONARY OF POPULATIONS AND RACES Big-Feet (Grand-Pieds in French) : Human mutants that appeared about 500 years before Ionivka's birth, after an experimental chemotherapy program for saving pregnant women who were irradiated from a nuclear reactor explosion. They are characterized by unusual body proportions and lesser social intelligence. "Big-Feet also means a specific type of mutant, like in the expression Big-Feet mutants. Big-Feet have the same form in singular or plural (ex. a Big-Feet, 10 Big-Feet). Fine-Eyes (Yeufin in French) Human mutants, of a different type, that appeared at the end of the Grand Total War, 4 centuries before Ionivka's birth. This mutation was designed for improving the survival ability, from radioactivity, of the population of the other coalition : Yfer. These mutants have used some genes from the Big-Feet population who is the most immune to radioactivity. Fine-Eyes also means a specific type of mutant, like in the expression Fine-Eyes mutants. Fine-Eyes have the same form in singular or plural (ex. a Fine-Eyes, 10 Fine-Eyes). Genius Big-Feet : A big-Feet mutant who is socially almost as intelligent as a non-mutant or as a Fine-Eyes mutant. Non-mutant : Normal people like you and me. Norcanian : Citizen of Norcan. A non-mutant or a Big-Feet who are living within the Norcan borders. Primitives : Big-Feet mutants who live outside any coalition territory; they live a simple life, like natives. Regular Big-Feet : The average intelligence Big-Feet (lower than a non-mutant, or than a Fine-Eyes mutant) Transfix : A person, more specifically a Big-Feet, who went through an induced self-rewiring of his/her brain. Such a person develops a genius-level intelligence and intuition on some specialized subject(s). Transfixed : (Adjective) The state of being a transfix. Transfixed Big-Feet : See transfix Yferan : Citizen of Yfer. Fine-Eyes or Big-Feet who are living within the Yfer borders. DICTIONARY OF CONCEPTS AND THINGS Caste collar : A monitoring high-tech neck collar that are imposed on every Big-Feet mutant who lives within the borders of Norcan. E2s1, E2s6 : The first 2 ionic propulsion engines that were corrected then tested by Ionivka. ENIMP : ElectroNeuronic IMPlant (IMPEN in French) GGT or Grand Total War (Grande Guerre Totale in French) GTW : The Grand Total War; it would have happened in the 22nd century when 99.9% of Earth's population died. HeLiPReFNu : A French verlan acronym for Helium Lithium Proton Reacteur à Fusion Nucléaire. It is a cryogenic lithium-proton-based nuclear reactor. Such reactor produces energetic helium ions and electricity. Hoverbus : An air-cushion vehicle for transporting many passengers over water and damaged roads through contaminated zones. Hovercar : An air-cushion vehicle for transporting a few passengers over water and damaged roads through contaminated zones. Hypercargo : The largest remote-controlled spaceship for transporting large and heavy cargo between Earth and space. Hyprop : A powerful delta type nuclear fusion based propulsion engine. IMPEN (F) : IMPlant ElectroNeuronique (ENIMP in English) Ionic mirror : (Miroir ionique in French) A device that deflects high-energy incoming ions towards a well-specified direction. Ions neutralization device (IND) : (Déionisateur in French). A generic device that projects electrons towards outgoing ions for the purpose of transforming them into neutral atoms, without otherwise changing their momentum. Lettre posthume (F) : Un logiciel qui illustre et anime un personnage virtuel tout en lui donnant une personnalité identique à une personne spécifique décédée. KD1 or Kuyper Delta One/First : A long-distance, crew-controlled, spaceship that can carry large cargo as far as to the far edge of the Kuyper Belt objects (beyond Pluto). Obedience bracelets : Locked bracelets that are imposed on most Big-Feet mutants and that impede the use of their hands automatically when certain conditions are met. Obedience collar : A monitoring and enforcing locked electronic collar that are imposed on every Big-Feet mutants who are living within the Yfer borders. Ordicom : A very sturdy computer that is adapted for Big-Feet mutants. Posthumus letter : (Lettre posthume in French) A software application that animates a virtual character that looks like and that have the same personality as a specified deceased person. SRES : Surveilance and Regulation Enforcing System (SySAR in French; see next) SySAR (F) : Système de Surveillance et d'Application des Règlements (SRES in English; see above) Tomo : A shorthand word for tomograph or tomogram. Toxic Dissociative Crisis or TDC : (Crise dissociative nocive in French or CDN). A life-threatening condition of a transfix, when his/her intuition tells him/her that the object of his/her responsibility related to his/her transfixed subject is either threatened or destroyed. Vulture Aircraft series : A huge air-breathing jet-propelled freighter aircraft type. DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC/TECHNOLOGY TERMS Celsius : Temperature units. In Farenheight, the equivalent temperature would be F = 32 + 1.8 * C. Cryogenic : Related to extreme cold temperature. Kelvin : Temperature unit, where a value of zero is the absolute cold that is physically possible. 273 Kelvin = 0 Celsius = 32 Fahrenheit. The temperature in Kelvin would be K = 273 + C. eV : Energy units in electron volts. The energy of a single visible light photon is about 3.5 eV. A typical molecular binding energy is between 1 and 10 eV. The fusion and fission energy of an atom is in the range of around 50 MeV. MeV : Million Electron Volts Tomogram : A 3D representation of specific physical properties of every internal point within an object or within a living being. Tomograph : An equipment that generates a tomogram of an object or being that is within the probing volume of that equipment; it is like a CAT scanner. I use the metric system for dimensions and distances.