Connivent - Two or more florets who share an owner.
Core (affini) - Highly durable central organ of an affini housing all of their necessary cognitive and bodily functions.
Core Cuddles - Act of directly cuddling an affini's core, greatly increasing the sophont's exposure to the affini's biorhythm and often leaves the sophont in a blissed, dazed state, even for a time after the cuddling has ceased.
Core Worlds - The heart of the Compact, located in the Triangulum Galaxy, including the affini homeworld. See The Affini Core Worlds.
Digitization - Process by which a biological sophont becomes a digital one. See Digitization.
Dirt - Affini curse.
DNEEF (Do Not Engage Executive Function) - Type of clause or section in a domestication contract which relieves the floret of making decisions ever again. Also used to refer to a temporary state of similar conditions for a floret.
Domestication - Large scale act of the Compact pacifying a species, as well as the act of an affini turning a sophont into their floret. See Domestication.
Domestication Center - Community centers focused on promoting and facilitating voluntary domestications.
Feralism - Ideologies which oppose the Affini Compact or are otherwise not congruent with Affini ideals. See Transient Feralism Ideologies.
Fifth Fundamental Force - Fundamental force of the universe the affini discovered which is utilized to enable many of the Compact's technologies.
Fire - Affini curse.
Firebreak - Device on some Compact ships and stations which detects and shunts projectiles and explosions into hyperspace in order to protect sophonts from harm. See Firebreak.
Florn - Floret porn.
Floret - Sophonts taken as pets by affini. See Florets.
Floret Cut - Versions of media with certain topics censored or altered (such as violence, death, remnants of capitalism, and so on) available as an option for more sensitive florets.
Flort - Cute shorthand for "floret".
Free Terran Rebellion - Umbrella term for general Terran resistance against the Compact following the fall of Terra.
Free Terranism - Terran supremacist ideology resisting the Compact’s control over terran space. See Transient Feralism Ideologies.
Habitation Ring (Hab Ring) - Rotating ring as part of a spaceship or space station used to simulate gravity in microgravity environments.
Habitation Unit (Hab) - Home for a sophont or sophonts, such as a house or apartment.
Haustoric Implant - Biotech implant given to florets to ensure physical and mental wellness, and longevity. See Haustoric Implant.
Human - Sophont species originating from Terra. See Terrans.
Human Domestication Treaty - Treaty signed by the Terran Accord surrendering to the Affini Compact. See Human Domestication Treaty
Hyperlight Ansible Network - Faster than light network upon which the overnet runs, among other tools, sensors, and more. See Limits of Affini Compact Technology.
Hyperspace - A chaotic mess of reality that exists "beneath" normal spacetime, used for faster-than-light transportation and communication. See Jump Drives/Hyperspace.
Hypermetric - Relating to or utilizing hyperspace.
Hypermetric Weapon - Weapon which utilizes hyperspace to damage or destroy a target, notably far beyond the capabilities of the former Terran Accord.
J-Café (Jafé) - Establishment in the Affini Compact where sophonts high on class-J xenodrugs roam around lounging on oversized pet furniture and interacting with patrons, similar to terran cat cafés of Old Earth.
Jump Drive - Drive installed on spaceships to allow faster than light travel by traveling through hyperspace in almost instantaneous "jumps". See Jump Drives/Hyperspace.
Little Sprout - A sophont (often a floret) who regresses to behaviors and mindsets of younger members of their species, either temporarily or full-time. See On Children, Age Regression, and CG/l Dynamics.
Megacorp - Large corporations which dominated Accord politics, exerting monopolies over markets and entire planets prior to human domestication.
Milky Way - Second largest galaxy in the Local Group. The Affini first arrived here around the turn of the 21st century and its domestication is still ongoing.
Mil-Spec - Informal term describing an affini who is specially trained for combat and sports combat-oriented grafts for this purpose. Generally not used as a term by the affini themselves.
Mothtaur - Moth-like centuar sophonts domesticated some time prior to humanity. See Mothtaurs.
Office of Rituals & Records - Bureaucratic office dedicated to the filing and handling of information pertaining to the Compact's bureaucracy.
Office of Transitional Neoxenoveterinary Archeobureaucracy (OTNA) - Bureaucratic office dedicated to collecting, organizing, and archiving all possible information about newly encountered civilizations. See Office of Transitional Neoxenoveterinary Archeobureaucracy.
Old Earth - Period of time referring to pre-environmental collapse Earth, predominately the late 20th and 21st centuries, commonly romanticized in Accord media.
Ortet - Sophont who has a separate digitized version of themselves. See Digitization.
Overnet - Vast faster than light communications network created by the affini that replaced the many terran planetary internets. See Comms Networks.
Ramet - Digitized sophont forked from another sophont. See Digitization.
Reblooming - Process during which an affini's core refreshes itself by mending damage and regrowing their body, often accompanied by minor cognitive changes and memory loss. See Affini.
Rinan - Species of small nocturnal mammalian sophonts which terrans encountered prior to contact with the affini. See Rinans.
Sol System - The human home star system. See The Sol System.
Sophont - A sentient being, regardless of biology or lack thereof. See Sophont.
Spectrum Jelly - Species of jellyfish-like individuals who come from the edge of terran space, although the Accord never made contact. See Xeno Species.
Spool - Process of charging or readying a jump drive to jump.
Synthcube - Intentionally bland and unappetizing terran rations. See Synthcubes.
Seed - Someone who hasn’t figured out they desire to be a floret yet.
Spin Gravity - Artificial gravity created by the rotation of a cylindrical structure. See Artificial Gravity.
Universal Domestication - Ideology of the affini encompassing their goal to spread the Compact to all corners of the universe and bring each and every xenosophont under their care.
Universe Ascension - Event taking place in around three hundred millennia, at which point the Affini will recreate the universe to be free of scarcity, violence, coercion, oppression, death, and entropy. See Universe Ascension.
Uplift - Part of the process of creating a new affini where a non-sapient plant is used as a base of the initial forming of an affini core.