ons Its shields were probably the strongest ever installed on a mobile base But for reasons known only to the Bene Gessent, Comn's favorite courtesan, a member of the Sisterhood, persuaded him that Antiock should also serve court functions Almost half of the armament was either removed or never installed, one of the missile bays became a ballroom, another an audience chamber, at least one of the lasgun turrets was converted to a starshine conservatory Antwck was never used in combat Neither did it serve long as a space-going palace it was first launched in 68%, less man two years later Gomn was dead of chaumurky His heir, Harmon III (r 6892 6898) sold Antiock to the Guild, and it disappears from history Unlike heighlmers, monitors, crushers, and other specialized ships of the Impenum the frigate endured even long past the God Emperor s time Since a frigate was simply a spaceship of a certain size with certain capabilities, it may be said to exist in fact, if not in name, today Thousands of contemporary craft are of that size launch as single units from planetary surfaces, and use some form of reaction drive Most, of course, are also capable of trans light operation but only the Guild monopoly prevented the addi uon of that capability to the frigates M M Further references Odn Shang References to Frig ates in the Catalogued Documents of the Rakis Hoard Archives Quarterly Review 21 26-111 Dekonalit Wimty * Antwck and the Frigates of the Impcnum Journal of Paleoeconomcs 37 141 253 GALACri Sound and morphology changes In the outline below, *'C ' stands for any consonant and "V" for any vowel Vowel symbols represent the following values /i/ a high front lax vowel, the vowel sound of bit fiyf represents a tenser vowel, with a forward and upward glide, the vowel sound of beet lei a and front lax vowel, the vowel sound of bet ley! represents a tenser vowel, with a forward and upward glide, die vowel sound of bait IxJ a low front vowel, the vowel sound of bat /s/ a mid central vowel, the vowel sound of bat /a/ a tow back vowel, the vowel sound of the first syllable of father /o/ a imd back lax vowel the vowel soand of caught law/ represents a tenser vowel with a backward and upward glide the vowel sound of coat /u/ a high back lax vowel the vowel sound of soot /uw/ represents a tenser vowel with a backward and upward glide the vowel sound of suit All consonant symbols have their usual alpha betic values except the following /6/ a voiceless interdental the first sound of /(V a voiced interdental, the first sound of thy /&7 a voiceless alveolopalatal the first sound of shirt /# a voiced alveolopalatal, the first consonant sound of azure /c7 a voiceless palatal the first and last sounds of church GALACH 259 OALACH a voiced palatal, the first and last sounds judge a velar nasal, the final sound of sing In addition, the following symbols should be noted /h/ after any vowel indicates a longer version of that vowel, "Vd" represents any voiced sound, "#" indicates a word boun- dary, "_" indicates the position of the sound in question in a word Thus, for example, the formula "ffl -4 /p/(not #_)" is to be reads as /f/ becomeb /p/ if it is not at the beginning of a word, or "/p/ -> /b/(Vd_Vd)" reads as /p/ becomes /b/ when it is between voiced sounds OALACH 260 GALACH OAMONT 261 CAMONT Pergressive tnbwutem trigirlem trenweluupem Accompanitive gwibwidem gwigirlem gwenweluupem Abcessive fribwideni frigirlem frenweluupem Locative nibwidetn nigirlem nenweluupem For words beginning with vowels, the prefixes are w, t, b, f, tr, gw, fr, and n.