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The Lingo
For more information, see respective articles. First: AAT - Alien Assault Traders Now all those annoying 2-letter S ones. SD - sector defense SG - a genesis sector, or a complex of genesis sectors. SM - sector missile SC - a super cargo ship Ships pio - pioneer col/colum - not commonly used. A Columbus class ship. SC - A super cargo class ship. endy - endeavor razor - razor back voy - voyager excel- excelsior BC - battle cruiser (the fed ship) Devices/weapons figs - fighters torps - torpedoes SM - sector missile SG torp - device used to make SGs pod - escape pod dig - as a noun, a dignitary. Verbs pod - put into a pod (kill/blow up ship) SD - occasionally used to mean suicide. Usually sector defense. dig - as in dig into an SG. This means creating 1 SG sector, then using the "make link back to known space" function to make a link into the back of someone's SG, thus bypassing their SD. backdoor - as a verb, to dig into an SG. Or, the link created by digging. People TH/Tarnus - Tarnus Harten PJ - Panama Jack Moon - Moonraker PP - PhirePhly? KZ - Kwae Zar Max - Max Griswald usually, or Max Headroom AB/Greg - A-Blitz? Shess - Shesshomaru MM - MadMardigan? Val - Valience Oak/Oaky - Oakman Note: this is not a list of important players, nor a list of important players with abbreviations. Just a list of players with abbreviations. Though it is usually the important players that get them. And there's no real order to this, except I did intentionally put TH and PJ at the top as designers, and then Moon and PP, who are usually first or second in the rankings. Misc KE - kill efficiency, as seen on the rankings page. RS - real space. This can mean movement (using engines instead of a warp link), or a RS sector, meaning not an SG sector, or, RS in general means the collection of all real space sectors. SG gate - the RS sector that connects to the SG. May also be used to mean the first defended sector in the SG.
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