These artefacts are usually astounding feats of engineering (such as a pair of stars shaped into rings and joined like links in a chain), but leave no hints about the Jokers' physical form or day-to-day life.

The only piece of translatable Joker text is a poem, which cryptically states that they have gone to their new home, which "lies at the dark side of the sun".

Dominickdaniel "Dom" Sabalos IV is the son of a prodigy of probability math, a science able to predict anything apart from anything to do with the Jokers, and the first person to have had his life fully quantified using p-math.

His father, before being mysteriously assassinated, predicted that Dom too would be killed, on the day of his investiture as chairman of his home planet of Widdershins.

[5] Their wealth derives from both the chance discovery of pilac, a safe death-immunity drug and googoo, a fungal copier and regenerator of human tissue.