#### A Seal of Writ
A peacemaker guild instrument similar to a non-disclosure agreement.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### A Threat to Order
Equivalent to Crimes Against Order, but it applies to sovereign states.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### Artificer Adept
A rank among the artificers.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Artificers
Engineers and technicians who kept Anvil Dark running, oversaw the testing and development of new tech, and also provided maintenance and repair services to Peacemakers’ ships.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Cartographer
A job title among the Peacemakers, specializes in literally mapping the characters and mental states of other Peacemakers.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Ceremony of Investiture
Promotion ceremony within the Peacemakers guild.
- First Appearance: #book5
#### Class 1 Warrant
For Crimes Against Order, carries a very large bounty.
**First Appearance:** #book10
#### Council Deliberative
A peacemaker body that deals with most things not requiring a Master.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### File: Original Sin
Covers the operation where the Tenants were essentially created from the Termigu.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### Form GKU-PM-78462/A
The basic form given to those wishing to file grievances with the Peacemakers, basically a “fill this out and we’ll get back to you” thing.
**First Appearance:** #book2
#### Galactic Knights
The force for administration and policing in the universe.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Galactic Knights Legion
The military arm of the GK.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Galactic Knights Uniformed/GKU
Known as the Peacemakers. A branch of the Galactic Knights specializing in tracking down and correcting criminals and preventing basic lawlessness.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Guild Master of the Peacemakers
The highest rank attainable among peacemakers.
**First Appearance:** #book4
#### Judgement Chambers
The courtrooms of Anvil Dark.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Justiciar
A guild title allowing greater scope of action to specific Peacemakers working with specific Masters.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### Known space star systems claims protocol
Any system under dispute should be kept free of any development until the parties involved have made their cases and they’ve been adjudicated by a relevant interstellar authority.
**First Appearance:** #book10
#### Lead Investigator
A title pertaining to specific investigations that grow too large for a single peacemaker to pursue.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Librarian
Peacemaker who runs the library.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Library
Peacemaker trove of off-line records and archives.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Loyal retainership
Auxiliary positions that could be granted to individuals by the Peacemakers—not Peacemakers themselves but working in support of the guild.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Master Peacemaker
One of 7 peacemakers that run the guild. Some may be involved in corrupt actions.
**First Appearance:** #book2
#### Myrmidon
A fairly senior rank in the peacemakers.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Acolyte
A rank among peacemakers.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Adherent
Van’s rank at the beginning of book 5, one step up from an ordinary peacemaker.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Peacemaker Charter
The document that originated and authorizes the Peacemakers.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Companion
The next rank following Adherent, and prior to Myrmidon.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Peacemaker Conclave
A gathering of all active Peacemakers at Anvil Dark. The last one happened almost 20 years prior to the events in Backyard Starship.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Initiate
A peacemaker who has passed the basic qualification tests. Still works under the authority of a Senior, a Peacemaker Adept.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Initiate, Probational
The rank of a not-yet-accepted peacemaker candidate.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Justiciar
An appointed office directly reporting to a particular Master. This person works for that Master before any other.
**First Appearance:** #book9
#### Peacemaker Keel
AKA the Keel. the governing body of the peacemakers. Located in the upper ring of Anvil Dark. Consists of the seven most accomplished and experienced members of the Peacemakers. One of these seven holds the title of High Master, and is nominally in charge of the entirety of the Peacemakers Chapter of the Galactic Knights, this person is also a high ranking Galactic Knight. The Keel is also the name for the large table in the meeting room where the Masters who make up the body of the Keel meet to work.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Peacemaker Patrols
AKA Patrols, AKA "number 1's". The Peacemaker dress uniform, used for formal occasions like ceremonies.
**First Appearance:** #book3
#### Peacemakers
Also known as a Galactic Knight, Peacemakers are an elite force of law enforcement who have existed for more than three centuries. Both hereditary and open to recruitment, the guild is a meritocracy, but subject to political machinations and corruption, albeit not on the scale of other galactic military forces. Peacemakers have a legal code, proscribed methods, a reward and bounty scale, and a well-earned reputation as fierce, competent fighters. Any race may be a Peacemaker, but the candidates must pass rigorous testing and training.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Plan Heracles
All available GKU and guild assets are being activated, including some that are currently dormant. The objective is the elimination of the leadership of the seven stars league. The league has become a “threat to order” in known space.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### Security Troopers
Basically the police force on Anvil Dark, they cover issues that happen on Anvil Dark only.
**First Appearance:** #book8
#### Sirius Treaty
Governs interstellar legal standards, part of which details Crimes Against Order, and what is allowed (or specifically not allowed) in the fight against these crimes.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Statement of Concern
A form filled out to alert the Peacemakers that there may be questionable activities happening.
- First Appearance: #book5
#### The GKU
As B explains it...
**First Appearance:** #book7
> [!quote]
> “The GKU began as a paramilitary outfit, a collaborative effort to form a neutral force that could deal with threats that spanned multiple star systems and political entities. It was sort of like the UN back on Earth, if the UN had a more militant focus rather than purely international dialogue and cooperation and the like.”
>
> “Basically, the GKU were the Peacemakers of the time, but much more heavily armed—more like Groshenko’s mercenaries, in fact.” B nodded. “Without coming out and saying it, Petyr has essentially fashioned his mercenary company into a modern-day version of the GKU. The real thing was a lot larger and had way more combat power, but it’s the same idea.”
>
>“Not even a little bit. Knights is the closest translation in English because the GKU did have some of the attributes of an old terrestrial knightly order—in particular, a code of honor that was taken to transcend all other laws.” “Which was a distorted version of their original purpose. They were meant to enforce a set of agreed-on laws across all of known space. Over time, that morphed into, we are above the law and answerable only to ourselves—and that’s where the Honor Code came from. It was supposed to keep the GKU reined in and stop them from becoming worse than whatever problems they were intended to solve.”
>
>Over time, the GKU became more and more a player in their own right in interstellar affairs. It all came to a head about fourteen hundred years ago. The GKU ended up being disbanded in all but name, and a new organization, the Peacemaker Guild, was set up to replace them. Instead of a dedicated paramilitary organization, it was all about law enforcement. And instead of a rigid hierarchy, the Peacemakers were designed to be freewheeling, more a bunch of independent operators than a unified body.”
>
>“The Guild is the actual thing, and the GKU is just some vague, distant thing with some vague, distant, and probably fluffy ceremonial purpose—a bunch of old people in fancy uniforms sitting around drinking and feasting and having secret handshakes and the like.” I flexed my knee. It ached, but no more so than if I’d just banged it into something. “But they’re not.” “No, they definitely are all that,” B said. “But that’s just the GKU you see. For reasons I won’t get into right now, at the time it was disbanded for being naughty, a handful of visionaries realized that there was still a need for a body that could deal with the real interstellar troublemakers.”
>
>“What it comes down to is that the GKU was never truly disbanded. A small cadre of the Knights went underground, nurturing a secret organization dedicated to its original cause.” “Working outside the law to deal with troublemakers,”
#### The Ten Basic Skillsets of a Peacemaker
1. Spaceflight
2. Atmospheric Ship Combat
3. Extra-Atmospheric Ship Combat
4. Ranged Personal Weapons
5. Melee Combat
6. Zero-g Combat
7. Stealth and Subterfuge
8. Information Systems
9. Laws, Policies and Procedures
10. Diplomacy
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Third Veteran
A peacemaker status conferring membership in the council deliberative.
**First Appearance:** #book5
#### Veteran Peacemaker
A rank, also known as Full Veteran or First Veteran.
**First Appearance:** #book7
#### Wall of Remembered Honor
Wall of plaques listing all the peacemakers lost in the line of duty.
**First Appearance:** #book1
#### Wound Badge
Badge awarded to peacemakers wounded in the line of duty.
**First Appearance:** #book2
#### Wyvern
A ship class formerly used by peacemakers for their maneuverability and speed, now used as auxiliaries on the Righteous Fury, the Peacemakers "police boat" aka battlecruiser.
**First Appearance:** #book5