Glossary of Terms

Below is a **glossary of terms** for jargon and slang used in *Project Sagittarius*.

## Common Terms

* **AI**: acronym for "Artificial Intelligence", a computer, robot or program with self-awareness
* **Alien:** hypernym for all extraterrestrial organisms
* **AU:** astronomical unit; the distance from Earth to Sol, approximately equal to 150 million kilometres (93 million miles)
* **Aurora:** a powerful psychostimulant with many derivatives
* **Backplant:** streetslang for anchor
* **Biovendor:** someone that sells biological implants or organs
* **Bonanza:** the location of a big score
* '**Borg:** a full-body cyborg conversion
* **Bourgie** or **Bourgy:** common, low class
* **Burned:** exhausted
* **Chip:** short for datachip, a data storage medium
* **Chilled:** to be cool, to be together.
* **Chipped:** to be implanted with cyberware
* **Chit:** credit chit
* **Circ:** short for circuit
* **Claim:** a tract of land staked out
* **Claim jumper**: a settler who violates another's land claim
* **Collective:** the Interstellar Collective
* **Collective era:** period of governance by the Interstellar Collective, 2069-2235
* **Combat Drugs**: any one of a series of designer drugs created to increase speed, stamina, and reflexes
* **Corp:** corporation
* **Corpo:** employee of a corporation
* **Cs:** short for credits
* **Deffer:** short-form pronunciation and slang for the DFFR
* **Downtime:** free time, time off the job
* **Dreamtail:** portmanteau of "dream" and "cocktail"; a chemical cocktail that can induce factory-designed dreams, often with subliminal messages
* **Duster:** derogatory word for aresian
* **Electropunk:** a popular music genre combining electronic synth with punk rock
* **Empath:** someone with hyperempathy, usually as a result of mutation
* **F.E.Z.:** Free Economic Zone
* **Floater:** derogatory word for spacer
* **Fume:** get angry
* **FTL:** faster-than-light
* **Gastro:** gastronomer
* **Hanza:** forces and territories of the Hanza Republic
* **H.N.:** Herschel Nations
* **Hycarb:** hydrocarbon
* **Hydro:** streetslang for hydrogen fuel, used to power a sizable number of vehicles
* **HZQ: H**ammond-**Z**hōu **Q**uintessence
* **Imperial** or **Imperials:** slang for terrans or the United Colonies
* **Indie:** independent, self-employed, underground
* **Interlink:** neurally connect with a ship
* **Iron**: a gun
* **Jack:** money
* **Juice:** a chemical cocktail that protects a spacecraft passenger from literally being crushed by the high Gs and stresses of FTL travel
* **Jump:** cover a short distance in FTL travel
* **Klep** or **Klepped**: to steal (from kleptomania, a compulsion to steal)
* **Lace:** streetlang for the free base form of aurora
* **Lawdamn:** used to emphasize or express annoyance with someone or something; alternative to "goddamn", used in Scientism
* **Lawman**: synonymous with police officers and any other law enforcers
* **Leap:** cover a long distance in FTL travel
* **Looper:** someone who does the same things every day
* **Lucky:** streetslang for promiscuous
* **Mainline:** a term for your partner in a serious, long-term relationship
* **Malfunction:** problem; "what's your malfunction?"
* **Mech:** mechanised combat platform
* **Media:** someone who works in the media
* **Megacorporation**: a corporate entity with power and influence akin to sovereign nations
* **Metro:** the underground
* **Milcad:** military academy
* **Mindfuck:** aurora mixed with dreamtails, known for its powerful hallucinogenic effects
* **Mob:** an organized crime; any crime syndicate
* **Mutant:** slur for those born with physical and genetic mutations
* **Net:** aethernet
* **Night Market**: off-the-grid, temporary marketplaces set up by criminals and smugglers
* **Nightail:** a dreamtail that induces factory-designed nightmares
* **Nola:** shortened form of NovaCola soft drink
* **Novel:** interesting
* **Past Jockey:** someone obsessed with past events or items; antique collector
* **PDC: P**oint **D**efence **C**annon
* **Piece:** a sexual partner
* **Planum Australe:** Latin for "southern plain"; south polar region of a given planet or moon
* **Planum Boreum:** Latin for "northern plain"; north polar region of a given planet or moon
* **Prospector**: spacefarers that earn a living by scavenging, contracting, bounty hunting, mineral hunting and scientific analysis, among others
* **Quantum:** a human that has undergone enhancements to think as quickly as a machine
* **Ram:** personality (from computer jargon, RAM)
* **Ranger:** a member of the Sovereignty Patrol
* **Rattling:** suffering from drug withdrawal
* **Roguecorp:** a rogue corporation
* **SectGen:** Secretary-General
* **Scavving:** scavenging
* **SCOP:** acronym for "**s**ingle **c**ell organic **p**rotein", a common foodstuff
* **Seam:** the "light barrier"; maximum speed that any physical object or information can normally travel at; speed of light
* **Shard:** short for datashard, a medium for storing and transporting data
* **Shoe:** false ID
* **Shoemaker**: someone who specialises in creating a new identity for someone
* **Short-circed:** crazy, not thinking straight
* **Skeleton:** all the collected electronic records kept on a person; their electronic identity
* **Skip:** travel a very short distance at FTL speeds
* **Slammit On:** to get violent; to attack someone without reason
* **Slate:** a device for storing, transporting and reading data
* **Sleeve:** wrist-worn personal computer
* **Sponge:** human with a heightened resistance of radiation
* **Starship:** any spacecraft capable of FTL travel
* **Stim:** any type of stimulant narcotic
* **Stretch** or **Stretching:** gravity torture
* **Sunspot:** a derivative of aurora created by Ashna Pharmaceutical
* **Synth:** synthetic humanoid
* **SysDef**: U.C. system defence
* **Threelium**: slang for helium-3
* **TIP:** acronym for "This Is Permanent", a derivative of aurora
* **U.C.:** United Colonies
* **U&D:** Union & Democracy Party
* **Wage slave:** someone that earns a low or stagnant wage; a worker exploited for their labour
* **Wetwork:** contract killing
* **White neck:** corporate worker; white-collar
* **Xenoarcheology:** study of traveller archeology
* **Xenowarfare:** use of alien creatures in combat situations
* **Yard:** a space station

## Spacefaring Jargon

* **Bird:** spacecraft
* **Bounce:** take off
* **Bridging:** performing the Bridge Relay Procedure
* **BRP:** Bridge Relay Procedure
* **Grissom:** a problem, something that could go disastrously wrong ("we've got a Grissom", referring to the Grissom disaster)
* **Hypersleep:** suspended animation
* **Jump:** cover a short distance in FTL travel
* **Leap:** cover a long distance in FTL travel
* **Marathon:** ultra-long distance in FTL travel
* **Pitch:** the nose-up or nose-down axes of rotation, measured from horizontal axis
* **Skip:** travel a very short distance at FTL speeds
* **Waypoint:** a point of reference