27 As befits a ship of Romulan make, the Lorica's name comes from the Latin word for armor. Roman soldiers wore various types of armor through the years, including lorica squamata (scale mail) and lorica segmentata (banded mail).

36 In the UF universe, the Gamilons and Romulans are historical enemies, having occupied adjacent empires with similarly militaristic stances for centuries.

43 The Lorica is an original Romulan Warbird, as seen in the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror".

56 In the Romulan Navy, a centurion is a sort of enforcer for the captain - a non-commissioned officer who exists outside the regular chain of command, with the power to mete out punishment to any member of the crew for infractions against the complicated and draconian Romulan code of war. In practice, many centurions are not loyal to their captains either, but rather serve as rough equivalents to Soviet zampoliti, ultimately reporting to the Tal'shiar (the Romulan secret police).

93 Presumably 300 of some Romulan or Gamilon unit of speed. Surely not 300 megalights; that's an absurd speed for a small craft, let alone a capital ship.

112 A kmar is a made-up Romulan unit of measure (not taken from any outside reference). It's sufficiently far for plot purposes.

131 We see here that K'tayyl-class destroyers have built-in metaspace jump point generators, and thus are not dependent on fixed jumpgates.

155 One of the reasons Garon prefers a destroyer command - apart from the facts that a prestigious-but-small command is good for his cover and that destroyers get the most exciting and challenging missions - is because destroyers have small crews, which make it much easier for him to handpick people he can trust with his secrets. Naturally everyone aboard the Vengeance knows that he is much more competent than the persona he projects in public; if they didn't, the ship couldn't function. Since he's such a charismatic leader, they've sworn to help maintain that persona. To the rest of the fleet, Vengeance is a lucky ship, capable of completing difficult assignments and claiming fat prizes in spite of rather than thanks to the captain. As Garon noted to Devlin back in Courtship, Corimel takes most of the public credit for the ship's successes.

244 I always wondered why ships on Star Trek didn't have a medic permanently stationed on the bridge, since crew members are always getting hurt up there, and you can't rely on the chief medical officer just happening to have stopped by to trade bons mots with the science officer - so in the UF universe, WDF, IPSF, and most other forces' warships have, if not full-time bridge medics, at least EMTs whose battle station is the bridge.

264 Garon echoes one of Khan's lines in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - and presumably one of Kor's lines in Battlecruiser Vengeance: The Wrath of Kor, which he and Amanda have only watched together about 150 million times.

294 Getting crushed to death by falling bridge ceiling is an ancient and honorable tradition in Star Trek.

347 "I am Koth of the Vengeance, and this ship is my prize" appears in almost every episode of Battlecruiser Vengeance, according to The Final Reflection.

476 Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2:

Hamlet
O, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
(Dies.)

547 Having taken her revenge, Amanda demonstrates that she has also learned the value of mercy - and the powerful statement one can make with it. Her remaining enemies within the Gamilon Empire will be scandalized by this move... but they will also respect the boldness it reveals, and they will think twice before moving against her.

594 Sibling relationships - the power they have for good and for ill, when whole and when broken, and occasionally just what constitutes "whole" or "broken" - constitute another recurring theme of the Symphonies. I'm not sure what this says about me, since I'm an only child, but there you are. I inherited a lot of it from Revolutionary Girl Utena in the first place, but still.