Glossary for Icicle
Athena: The Oort designed control system for the ranging devices and the weapon systems on each Oort Station—named after the Greek goddess of war.
Banach manifold: A topological space in which each point has a neighborhood homeomorphic to a point or points in a Banach space. Analogous to the relationship between a globe and a Mercator projection of that globe. When a globe and a Mercator projection of that globe touch at the same geographic point, those points are virtually identical or homeomorphic. (If a person stands on a life-sized Mercator projection of Earth, from his perspective, his surroundings look the same as if he were standing on the same spot on Earth.)
Banach space: A space wherein all Cauchy vector sequences converge to a well-defined limit that is wi
