 Where are the characters from?
VOYAGE TO FAR N'JURD By KRIS NEVILLE Illustrated by MACK [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Magazine April 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] So they made a few changes in their way of life—and many in their way of death! I "I don't see why we have to be here," a crewman said. An' iffen I aims ta talk...." "So he do; an' I'll tell ya, hit shore is time he's a-gittin' hyere. This confined his field of vision to the left half of the recreation area. While the priest stood before the speaker's rostrum waiting for silence, the captain reached back with great dignity and scratched his right shoulder blade. Nestir, the priest, was dressed out in the full ceremonial costume of office. His fez perched jauntily on his shiny, shaven head. The baldness was symbolic of diligent mental application to abstruse points of doctrine. Cotian exentiati pablum re overum est : "Grass grows not in the middle of a busy thoroughfare." The baldness was the result of the diligent application of an effective depilatory. His blood-red cloak had been freshly cleaned for the occasion, and it rustled around him in silky sibilants. And then, more loudly, "Men!" That's why I called you all together today." "Three, you will recall, were wise. When Prophet was at Meizque, they came to him and said, 'Prophet, we are afflicted. The Prophet looked at them and did see that it was true. Then he blessed them and took out His knife and lay open their sores. But three were foolish and hid their sores; and these three did live." Calex i pundendem hoy , my children. 'Secrecy makes for a long life,' as it says in the Jarcon ." Nestir tugged behind him at his cloak. "I want you all to remember that little story.
 Different city-states within the whole system.
 The land of Meizque.  The city-state of Koltah.  They all live aboard a ship.  Different city-states within the whole system.