Jargon

With the existence of the Coalition of Congressional Republics and its usage of English as both the official language of government practice, and the *lingua franca* of interstellar economics in human space, it is to no one's surprise that the bulk of humanity has at least a passing understanding of the English language. Even so, such international sociocultural intimacy and diffusion has allowed for the transfer of many foreign vocabularies into the English lexicon over time — compounded with interstellar distances, this has led to the proliferation of many different creoles, *patois*, pidgins, and slangs.

Even with these localized phenomena in mind, there still exists an international level of slang that persists throughout human space. Built up for centuries of mankind's existence across the stars, these words have more or less been officiated in use for much of the lower class of society, and borrow from languages such as Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, and Japanese, amongst others. Some middle and upper class also use this jargon, but for varying personal reasons.

Human jargon and slang is mainly split along topical lines, ranging from addressing street life to corporate activities and the general world.

## Common slang

These words and phrases are all shared by various subslangs, mostly as a result of what they address.

* **Amrita**: Individuals who have underwent life extension treatments, mainly through the usage of rejuvenants.
* **Aug:** Shorthand for augmentation, or the verb augment.
* **Borg**: Shorthand for cyborg; can also refer to fully synthetic androids.
* **Borged**: Refers to the act of cyberization.
* **Coalition**: Shorthand for the Coalition of Congressional Republics.
* **Coldsleep**: Cryogenic hibernation. (See *cryosleep*)
* **Corpselover**: Derogatory term for a Christian.
* **Cryo**: Short for *cryosleep*.
* **Cryosleep:** Cryogenic hibernation. (See *coldsleep*)
* **Cyberpunk**: Punk, reject of society, or ruffian that rejects the modern social order and uses cybernetics to fight against the system, whether violently or not. For synonyms, see Streetslang.
* **Cyberpsychosis**: Colloquial term for mental manifestations of augmentation syndrome. Officially known as **augmetic psychosis**.
* **Cyberpsycho**: Someone who suffers from cyberpsychosis; often implies a danger to society. Officially known as **psychotic augmetics**.
* **Emperor**: Derogatory term for the General Secretary of the Coalition. Alternatively, the commander of a massive criminal organization.
* **Empire**: Derogatory term for the Coalition.
* **Fullganic**: No synthetic material present; one-hundred percent organic.
* **Gaijin**: (*Japanese*) A foreigner. (See *laowai*)
* **Gweilo**: (*Cantonese*) Caucasian.
* **Hāfu**: (*Japanese*) Someone of half Japanese descent.
* **Hapa**: (*Hawaiian*) Someone of mainly mixed Asian and Caucasian origin.
* **Laowai**: (*Mandarin*) Foreigner. (See *gaijin*)
* **Molerat**: Inhabitant of a subterranean settlement or city.
* **Noganic**: No organic material left; one-hundred percent synthetic.
* **No-go zone**: An area that possesses significant dangers to anyone who trespasses into it; often used in wider terms to refer to areas of space controlled by pirates.
* **Note:** Shorthand for Coalition Congressional Note. (See *buck, digibuck, congbuck, cobuck, conote, blue, blueback, collie)*
* **Otoko**: (*Japanese*) Used by foreign communities synonymously with "bro"; used by Japanese communities to colloquially refer to homosexuals.
* **Saracen**: Muslims, or those of Middle Eastern ancestry. Used during the Belial War by soldiers to refer to the local population irrespective of ancestry or religion.
* **Silic**: Synth.
* **Skywalker**: Inhabitant of the upper, often most affluent, levels of stratoscrapers.
* **Starwalker**: Inhabitant of a space station.
* **Stratoscraper**: The tallest man-made structures on a planetary surface, some being able to pierce into the stratosphere.
* **Sobrat**: (*Russian*) Like a brother.
* **Terragenic**: Of some sort of origin from Earth.
* **Tinbrain**: Synth. (See *metalbrain, silic, tinhead*)
* **Touch down**: To arrive, specifically by air.
* **Tovarisch**: (*Russian*) Comrade.
* **Urb**: Urban.
* **Urb-block**: Often refers to a large residential block in an urban area.
* **Wetware**: Biological augmentations, or alternatively regular organs such as the brain.
* **X-ian**: Christian.
* **Xenogenic**: Of some sort of origin not of Earth.
* **Yarmulke**: (*Yiddish*) Slang term for a religious Jew.

## Copslang

**Copslang** contains words commonly used by members of police forces across the Coalition; it shares vocabulary with both streetslang and milslang due to the proximity of both sectors of life with police work.

* **Connie**: A convict.

## Corposlang

**Corposlang** is a derivative of Coalition jargon that is both used by the lower class to refer to corporate phenomena, and used by portions of the upper class between themselves in relation to corporate activity.

* **Comp, compi, compy**: Company.
* **Cong:** Shorthand for conglomerate.
* **Conglomerate**: A collection of various corporations under the control of a holding company.
* **Corp:** Shorthand for corporation.
* **Corpo**: As a noun, someone who works for or is affiliated with a megacorporation. As a adjective, used akin to "corporate".
* **Megacorp**: Shorthand for megacorporation.
* **Megacong**: Shorthand for megaconglomerate; effectively synonymous with megacorporation.
* **Paper-slut**: Derogatory term for a secretary.
* **Samurai**: (*Japanese*) A corporate soldier; most commonly used for the troops of Kanetomi.
* **Xia**: (*Mandarin*) A corporate soldier; most commonly used for the troops of Chen Wu.

## Cyberslang

**Cyberslang** is a type of slang most commonly used by netrunners, scapesurfers, hackers, and other netizens. It is also used in reference to some aspects of cybernetics,augmentations, and artificial intelligence.

* **AI:** Artificial intelligence.
* **Chassis:** For synths, refers to their body.
* **Cyberspace**: The digital spaces that exist throughout the Hypernet, to which the InfoScape exists as a grand portion of.
* **Demon**: Malevolent rogue artificial intelligences that exist in the edges of cyberspace, often hacking into neural augmentations or other artificial intelligences to wreak havoc.
* **Ikisudama**: (*Japanese*) A "living ghost"; one whose body is mostly composed of cybernetics.
* **InfoScape:** The civilian communication platform used by almost all of the Coalition of Congressional Republics. Not to be confused with the Hypernet, which is the interstellar system that hosts the InfoScape.
* **Netrun**: To fully immerse one's consciousness into the Hypernet.
* **Netrunner**: One who netruns.
* **Netrunning**: To netrun.
* **Starnet:** The Hypernet locale for a star system.
* **Synth:** Short for the noun or adjective *synthetic*.
* **Synthetic**: When used as a noun, it is used to refer to fully-autonomous AI that most often inhabit humanoid chasses.

## Milslang

**Milslang** is jargon commonly used by those in military or paramilitary forces (namely the Coalition Forces Authority), or used to refer to the military by civilians. Milslang is also commonly used by armed elements of civilian society, such as mercenaries, fixers, and private security entities.

* **Bluehat**: Term for soldiers of the CFA, reminiscent of the soldiers of the old United Nations. (See *bluehelm*)
* **Bluehelm**: Soldier of the CFA. (See *bluehat*)
* **Bootboy**: Derogatory term for a soldier.
* **Coil**: Shorthand for coilgun.
* **Jarhead**: Member of the Interstellar Coalition Marine Corps; originally referred to a member of the United States Marine Corps.
* **Kamikaze**: (*Japanese*) A person, robot, or vehicle who is to engage in a nigh-suicidal act.
* **Rail**: Shorthand for railgun.
* **Roe**: Term that originates from the acronym for *Rules of Engagement*.
* **Subby**: Derogatory term for a soldier that serves in a member army of the Combined Member National Subcommand.

## Streetslang

**Streetslang** is a variant of slag most commonly used by the denizens of hyper-populated settlements and worlds, such as Earth and Hyperion, where its urban streets are always the center of various hustles, crimes, and other events. Many words revolve around the relationship between fixers and mercenaries, but also in relation to gangs and urban life in general. Shares some terms with copslang and milslang.

* **Bloodhound**: Debt collector, often working for a loan shark.
* **Bōsōzoku**: (*Japanese*) Biker gangs, commonly of Japanese origin, who dress in combat gear and ride extremely customized motor or hoverbikes.
* **Cooler**: Cryoprison.
* **Dappergang:** A criminal outfit that emphasizes historical aesthetics in their attire, vehicles, weapons, and/or properties.
* **Edge**: The fringes of society to which criminality and abnormality resides.
* **Edgerunner**: Someone who treads on the edges of society itself, especially in the terms of criminality; someone who wishes to exist beyond the social order. (See *cyberpunk*).
* **Fixer**: Someone who often arranges work or an opportunity, specifically for mercs. Can refer to smugglers, fencers, information brokers, and middlemen.
* **Fuckdoll**: Sex synth.
* **Gat**: Gun.
* **Going nuclear**: Going crazy, going berserk.
* **Gynoid**: Female sex synth.
* **Ice cube**: A prisoner in a cryoprison.
* **Merc:** Shorthand for mercenary. (See *solo, rōnin*)
* **Opp**: Opponent.
* **Penno**: Someone who is or was a prisoner.
* **Pig**: Police or security officer.
* **Pigbot**: Police or security droid.
* **Rōnin**: (*Japanese*) Mercenary. (See *merc*, *solo*)
* **Solo**: Mercenary. (See *merc, rōnin*)
* **Sleepy**: Depressant drug.
* **Stimmy**: Stimulant drug.
* **Tafheet**: (*Arabic*) A type of drift racing using stock (often stolen) cars, in addition to driving dangerously close to obstacles.
* **Tekkonin**: Tech-ronin; a technologically advanced mercenary.
* **Wet job**: Gig that involves murder. (See *wetwork*)
* **Wetwork**: Work that involves assassinations. (See *wet job*)
* **Vacuum**: Derogatory term for a prostitute.

## Spaceslang

**Spaceslang** is slang used to refer to various phenomena beyond the confines of a planemo. This type of jargon is most commonly used by civilian and military space pilots and sailors, seeing minimal use on planets. You can expect to hear these words more often not only on starships themselves, but also on space stations and other artificial spatial structures.

* **Anti**: When used as a noun, refers to an antimatter reactor.
* **Baro**: When used as a noun, refers to a barodrive.
* **Binnacle**: Where the barodrive is stored on the ship.
* **Fireball**: Star.
* **Floatjunk:** Artificial space debris, often within the influence of a planemo's gravity well.
* **Freebooter**: A pirate.
* **Gilded dildo**: A corporate vessel.
* **Going into baro**: Entering barospace.
* **Going dark**: Cutting off all heat and electromagnetic signatures to avoid detection in space.
* **I-Field**: Shorthand for interdiction field.
* **Junkwrangler**: An orbital cleanup ship.
* **Kugelblitz**: (*German*) (An often) microscopic black hole created by pure energy focused into a specific area; used to power barodrives and interdiction projectors.
* **Magburst, Magnetoburst**: Magnetic eruptions from a star; solar flare.
* **Overstar**: Similar in vein to *overseas*; refers to over the distance of entire stars.
* **Rimworld**: A world either in Wildspace or The Frontier; worlds being on the rim of human civilization.
* **Rock**: Another term for planemo.
* **Scuttle**: To destroy a ship or station.
* **Sinbad**: The ship or station's pet animal(s).
* **Stardog**: A veteran sailor or pirate.
* **The Core**: Highly developed and populated space that forms the core territory of the CCR.
* **The Frontier**: Recently colonized space of the CCR.
* **The Periphery**: Developed, but not necessarily highly populated, space that forms the bulk territory of the CCR.
* **Vacsuit**: Suit to be used in the vacuum of outer space.
* **Waldo**: Remotely-operated appendage used by those who work in space to prevent organic damage from the environment.
* **Whirlpool**: Black holes or abnormally strong gravity wells; sometimes synonymous with interdiction fields.
* **Wildspace**: Space beyond the borders of the CCR, claimed by no polity and totally wild.
* **Xeno**: Alien.