Glossary

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* **Assault Trooper:** A quick response force responsible for attacking the enemy behind their lines to disrupt logistics or to conduct fast paced assault on enemy positions before they can respond, allowing standard forces to set up their own positions. They are commonly used by the Stellar Defence Coalition and Ocida Union who are able to make use of them properly.
* **AR-4**: Assault Rifle adopted by the SDC Army in [0004] as the newest weapon for ground forces.
* **AT-60**: Anti-Tank Launcher in standard use for the SDC Army.
* ***Arbiter*-class battleship**: Longrange gun platform of the SDC Navy. It is equipped with a Ukaz-type artillery gun.
* **Anemoi Startracks**: Old "tracks" left behind generations back when humanity were first expanding. They allowed the travel between star systems and now allow starships that are not equipped with FTL to travel in designated lanes. They are distributed at regular intervals and entirely predictable.

B

* **Battleships**: Battleships are artillery gun platforms designed to strike at the enemy from long range and far from enemy positions.
* **Battlecruisers**: Direct combat warships meant to battle it out against enemy warships of lesser or equal tonnage.

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D

* **DMR-63**: The Designated Marksmen Rifle that is the standard sniper rifle in use by the SDC Army.

E

* **Expeditions, Manned**: Using unmanned drones, humans already know what to expect by the time they arrive to their destination. Most manned expeditions are scientific expeditions for gathering greater amount of information.
* **Evalach Shield Generator**: As the name implies, the Evalach Shield Generator is the 1/3rd piece of a defensive system that locks down entire areas of space that forces a ground battle.

F

* **Filya Act**: A portion of the legislature that makes it so that any company that produces material for the public or government will retain rightful license of their product for a period of 50 years and giving them authority over its use. When the fifty years is up, their design blueprint will be released into the public domain and others will be able to produce and profit. Ultimately, it is far more complicated, but that is the basics.

G

* **GMG-59**: The General-purpose Machine Gun in standard use for the SDC Army.
* **GAT-82**: The Guided Anti-Tank Launcher in standard use for the SDC Army.
* ***Gavel*-class destroyer**: heavy hitting warships meant to deliver destructive damage upon their enemies.

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* ***Jotun*-class salvage ship**: A commonly used salvage ship in use by a good number of stellar governments, even the SDC and Union have purchased these third party vessels for use.
* Jetpack: Typically used to allow one to move fast on foot or to lower the rate of descent. The more powerful variants allow one to fly.

K

L

* **LMG-10**: The standard use Light Machine Gun in use by the SDC Army.
* **Lobera Cannons**: A SDC-design anti-starship defence cannons that prevent starships from entering orbital bombardment range.
* ***Lethe*-class intelligence ship**: cloaking and ECM warfare ship in use by the SDC Navy.

M

N

* **Navigation**: Since starships are heavily computer assisted, the operator only needs to input their destination while the navigation computer deals with thruster power, speed, etc. The operator can however alter it as they desire.

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* **Riaza Program**: A research and development program based out of the mobile platform Riaza. It's purpose was, and still is, advancing weapons development. It is a contracted group by the Stellar Defence Coalition responsible for the latest technological discoveries regarding miniaturized and greatly simplified energy-matter and matter-energy projectiles.

* **Recreation Shipboard**: Ships that are designed for longer missions will typically have more space available for recreational activities than others.

S

* **Sky Tracer**: A dropship used by the Stellar Defence Coalition's assault troopers for the quick insertion of forces onto ground targets. They are designed to move closely to the ground at a fast pace to bypass enemy ground defenses, drop off their troops, then provide limited support before heading back from the battlefield once a proper line has been set up.

* **SP-3**: The Semi-automatic Pistol in standard use for the SDC Armed Forces.

* **Svalinn Shield Generator**: The Svalinn is a SDC-designed planetary defence shield that prevents objects moving past a certain velocity from entering. It is most commonly used to prevent orbital bombardment from above warships. It can allow starships to enter as long as they have the right energy signature necessary. They are deployed alongside Lobera Defence Cannons for anti-ship defence. After their private period had expired, the blueprints of the Svalinn Shield Generator was released to the public domain. It is now heavily used by the SDC and Ocida Union.

T

* **Titan**: An SDC Transport Platform used for the mass deployment of ground forces and the first steps in the construction of military bases.
* **Translator**: Translation software replaces words with approximate meaning and are often designed languages around already existing ones in human culture.
* ***Terra*-class platform**: Starbases used by humans for immense terraforming projects as a central hub situated in space with various different subplatforms. Gaia-class (plant fertilization), Ymir-class (world-shaping), Izanagi-class (landmass shaping), Dvergr-class (mineral collection).
* **Tyet Platform**: A SDC defensive platform that is capable of grabbing starships making use of their FTL and creating a space-time corridor that prevents the use of FTL or any form of travel beyond a certain point. Coupled with Evalach Shield Generator and Trishula Defence Cannon makes a planetary surface a necessary target to take instead of ignoring or bombarding.
* **Trishula Defence Cannon**: A planetary defence cannon that is coupled with the Tyet Platform and Evalach Shield Generator to create an immensely powerful and nigh-impossible point to bypass. The Trishula Defence Cannon fires off an immensely powerful shot of energy that is capable of crippling battleships at near the speed of light should the shot be charged to 100%. It is by far the most powerful weapon within the SDC's arsenal.

U

* **US-8 Launcher**: The Underslung grenade launcher in standard use of the SDC Army.

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