Spacer Slang

What is commonly known as Space Slang is the jargon of those who ply the trade of 'Spacer'... i.e. problem solvers of various kinds, usually space-borne.

Spacer Slang is made of mostly military terms, words and expressions from the Janaali dialects and various languages of Old Terra, chiefly Arabic, Russian and Chinese.

Known Expressions

* **Barkhan**: 'Cunt', both in friendly and unfriendly sense. Janaali most often use it in a friendly manner.
* **Belled**, get: being killed by a headshot. Derived by the loud ping of rounds and shrapnel onto ballistic metal.
* **Bridged**, get: taking a direct hit on the command area of a vessel. Shipborne equivalent to a headshot.
* **Catmal**: Contraction of 'Catastrophic Malfunction', often used in military ambients.
* **Cored**, get: taking a direct shot to the central part of the ship. Used also when referring to land vehicles and Exo-skeletons.
* **DeathTac'd**, get: paying the predictable price of a bad decision, used also as a synonym for karma. It initially referred to the tendency of DeathTac's cheap and unreliable ammunition to cause more issues among its users than its targets, including plenty of catastrophic malfunctions. Among mercenary Spacers, specifically, "being DeathTac'd" is used as a way to scold someone for cheaping out on gear.
* **Dickville**: a minor but significant setback or something of little consequence but great frustration: stubbing your toes onto ballistic steel is not lethal, but for a good few minutes you're very much \*not\* going to be a happy Spacer.
* **Enemcee**: NMC, "Non My Contract", the unofficial name of the MSec policy of not meddling with business they are not paid to deal with.
* **Fuckistan**: the state of being in which somebody has to deal with existential threats on the daily which leads to the development of almost Buddhist patience. It originated from the name Trench Raider gave the trenches within enemy artillery  range. The use of "Dickville, Fuckistan", however, foreshadows the much deeper and worse implications of something apparently inconsequential.
* **Gravving**: using a ship's Gravity Drive to move around space. Note that when used in its passive form (being Gravved) it refers to any form of gruesome death by blunt trauma. Younger Spacers often use "being folded" as a synonym.
* **Juice**, the: whatever fuels the particular vehicle a Spacer is on. Oftentimes, it is solid hydrogen, so no juice at all, but it also applies to any type of fuel, regardless of vehicle.
* **Kurwa**: 'Cunt' in the offensive sense, in the dialect of Barzhaat Clan.
* **Lemm'd**, get: being physically or metaphorically killed while blindly following someone else, after the numerous times in which a Lemming Drone was destroyed following the bearer of its control chip.
* **Nanma**: Shorthand for "None Of My Business"
* **Nanya**: Shorthand for "None Of Your Business"
* **Neutroning**: the practice of quickly and repeatedly firing something, be it a weapon or maneuvering thrusters, in reference to the pulsating beats of a neutron star. Neutron Code is also the name of the in world equivalent of the Morse Code.
* **Paiakhale**: Russian exhortation often used as a wish for good luck between pilots or by air traffic officers to departing pilots, in honour of a famous quote from Yuri Gagarin. (Note: the spelling in our world is poekhali, but I went for what someone who's never seen the word written before hearing it pronounced would write it down as)
* **Protocol 37**: going down fighting, referencing the 37th Martian Sappers numerous last stands. It is also alternatively used to mean surviving certain doom, in spite of odds beyond overwhelming, or working one's ass off in said adverse conditions only to be made into merchandise, although the difference is contextual.
* **Spaced**, get: being shoved into space from an airlock. Often unpleasant
* **Trenched**, get: synonym of overkill that many Spacers have mutated from ground crews, who in turn copied it from units working alongside the Trench Raiders, when reporting on what they saw after the Trench Corps were done with a place. Trenching something also often means wrecking the three to fifteen miles around the intended target, while Trench Raiders use the expression in its original meaning: a sanitized and socially acceptable synonym for the use of chemical and nuclear weapons.