Difference between revisions of "Slang"

Revision as of 19:03, 2 January 2021

Abbo dabbo: "space madness"; Witchspace psychosis
Annie: an Anaconda
Blues: police
Bug: Thargoid
C-monkey: a spacer (pilot or crewman -- usually specifically human or humanoid)
Cobby: a Cobra (usually followed by "One" or "Three", to distinguish a Cobra Mark I or a Cobra Mark III)
Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step: deceased
Dock-jock/Dock jockey: station dockmaster
Doughnut: a Torus station
Downer: a fuel leak
Ferdy: a Fer-de-Lance
Fuzzball: a ship surrounded by a fuzzy electrostatic corona. Commonly associated with extensive, successive E.C.M. System use.
Hardhead: an ECM Hardened Missile
Iron ass: a heavily shielded ship
Jameson: an inexperienced pilot
Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: sunskimming
Press space, commander: see Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step above
Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled)
Randomius Factoria: a deity invoked in The Dark Wheel and elsewhere. The god/dess of chance/luck?
Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an asteroid miner
Scutter: a low-grade technician
Slim/Slim Jim: a Cobra Rapier
Spacer: noun, generic term for a person who lives a predominantly spacebound existence, opposite to a planetbound existence.
Sparkler: a plasma cannon
Squawk: distress call
Squealer: an ECM
Sucker: a planet-dweller
Sunshine: Quirium
Tagalong: any ship which uses another ship's wormhole to make a witchjump to the same destination

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 *    '''Downer''': a fuel leak
 *    '''Ferdy''': a [[Fer-de-Lance (Oolite)|Fer-de-Lance]]
+*    '''[[Fuzzball]]''': a ship surrounded by a fuzzy electrostatic corona. Commonly associated with extensive, successive [[E.C.M. System]] use.
 *    '''Hardhead''': an [[ECM Hardened Missile]]
 *    '''[[Iron ass]]''': a heavily shielded ship