Crest of the Stars Trivia Quiz

Answer: Martine

The Abh don't care about governing the planets they conquer--instead, they want to use the space routes around them and take all the spaceships for the Empire. Jinto's father, the President of Martine, surrenders to the Abh Empire without a fight. Jinto is then sent off for schooling to become an Abh nobleman.

Answer: Pointy ears

Abh are genetically engineered, and only the Abh of the eight royal houses, or Abriels, are made with pointy ears. The other Abh have rounded ears like Terrans (people from terrestrial planets). Lafiel's father is a King, so they both have pointy ears, but her mother is a normal Abh with rounded ears. Abh eyes can be a number of colors, including blue, gray, purple, green, red, and gold.

While "Abh" typically refers to a genetically engineered person designed for life in space, "Abh" can also mean a Terran who is given Abh status in the nobility. In this way, Jinto is an Abh nobleman, a Count, while coming from a terrestrial planet.

Answer: He asks her name.

All of Lafiel's friends are so nervous about her being royalty that they only call her "Your Highness". Jinto knows so little about the Abh that he doesn't realize that her pointy ears mark her as an Abriel and doesn't act reverential. Lafiel is so pleased that she gives a big smile and joyfully says, "You shall call me Lafiel!" She insists that he call her by her name even after he finds out who she is.

Answer: Viscount Paryunu

Her father is King of the Clyuve family, and her grandmother is the Empress of the Abh. Her domain, Paryunu, is an uninhabited planetary system where the planets are named after flowers because the system's first surveyor loved flowers. One day, she may terraform one of the planets to make it habitable and fill it with flowers to justify the name.

Answer: She's a daughter of love.

The Abh consider asking for another person's genes in order to make a child to be the greatest expression of love. Such a thing happened with Lafiel's parents, making her a daughter of love. As a child, she begged her father to tell her who else supplied her genes, as Abh are typically raised by one parent. As a joke, her father showed her the cat. Being young, Lafiel believed him and thought she would grow fur and cat claws. Jinto laughs when he hears this story.

Most Abh undergo gestation in artificial incubators, but occasionally an Abh transfers the embryo to her own uterus for a "unique experience" and gives birth.

Answer: Gosroth

The Gosroth is attacked by several United Mankind ships. When diplomats from four nations, including United Mankind, meet Abh Empress Ramaj to tell her about how the Gosroth attacked other ships unprovoked, the Empress knows that they're lying. She can tell that the four nations want a war against the Abh Empire, so she declares war: the last war ever.

Answer: Febdash

The Baron is concerned that nearby United Mankind ships may take over his domain, so he wants Lafiel to stay until the threat is gone, aware that he's sabotaging her mission by doing so. His tiny domain consists mainly of the base where he lives, some asteroids, fifty vassals, and his father, whom he despises for being Terran.

Not much, but he's obsessed with keeping it, and even wants Lafiel to have his children.

Answer: Anti-matter

Lafiel adds anti-matter from the former Baron's plants to make the propellant deadly when ignited in front of the Baron's ship. He compliments her cleverness before his ship explodes.

Answer: Uninteresting

As they approach Sufugnoff, a ship says that "they'll open fire unless we stop." Lafiel adds that she hoped they'd say something more interesting, which prompts Jinto to say the above. Lafiel responds, "Neither do I."

Answer: She sees the stars twinkling.

Lafiel has never been on a planet before, so she's never seen the stars twinkle through atmospheric disturbance. She assumes the twinkling means that her eyesight is damaged, so she solemnly gives the logbook to Jinto and tells him to leave her behind if she goes blind. He's amused by her "heroics" and explains what's happening.

Answer: Dye her hair black

She is very proud of her blue hair, but it's a dead giveaway to those who are hunting her. She eventually dyes it and wears a hat to cover her third eye. Spoor laughs when she sees what Jinto's done to disguise an Abriel Princess.

Abh have a third eye. Rather than being an eyeball, it's a hole in the middle of their foreheads that, when plugged into the ship through their tiaras (almfacs), allows them to feel and see everything around the ship.

Answer: She will transport prisoners to the capital through normal space.

As an Abh Admiral, she can't refuse to accept a surrender after the battle starts, but she doesn't want to deal with prisoners. She is allowed to choose how the prisoners are transported to the capital. So, before the fighting, she has an aide do some calculations on how long it would take a ship flying through normal space, instead of through a sord, to reach the capital.

When the answer is 58,300 years, she has him remove various equipment from the ship, like gravity generators and agricultural facilities, which lowers the transport time to 49,100 years. Spoor acts delighted that she was able to decrease the time by almost 10,000 years and announces her plan to the enemy ships.

She certainly has her own style.

Answer: A theme park

The park is evacuated when the police enter to chase the duo. However, the animatronic animals keep behaving as if nothing's wrong, leading to some humor. The two get on a mechanical horse to outrun the police; when Jinto throws a bomb, the horse tells him not to litter.

Answer: Coffin

Sufugnoff's undertakers send corpses into space in space coffins. As there's no easier way off the planet for the couple, they cram into one and blast off. Spoor's ship picks them up.

Answer: He's executed.

Jinto finds out that his father's old advisor, Teal Clint, joined with United Mankind and now leads an uprising against the Abh Empire. The new Hyde government then executed the Count. Jinto cannot return home but isn't upset about it.