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Revision as of 13:47, 24 January 2021
A Glossary provides a list of terms and abbreviations unique to a game, group, or profession. The following is a list providing words commonly used in Star Sonata and their definitions.
A
- Adonis (Stations)
- Tech 9 stations and station gear. Generally considered the first level of base gear to be relevant to orbital defenses as it has the full complement of station augmenters, station gear like a Pulse Gun, MagCannon, and Overloader, and Industrial Y and Z construction. The Adonis Energybank X is the first station energy to use Nuclear Waste as a fuel source rather than produce it as a waste. Adonis Stations have a significant power jump over the previous tier Apollo at Tech 6. Also the first tech of stations to use extractors other than Tech 0 AI station extractors.
- Aggro
- An AI ship that is aggressive to players of a certain level. It can also be used to describe an aggressive player, his bots, bases, or his drones.
AI
- (1) Automated computer controlled objects in the game, including ships, bases and drones. Free roaming ships and standalone teams can be also called NPCs.
- (2) Astral Injection skill. A skill required to equip augmenters onto permanent drones.
- Argonaut
- Second level of base gear from Adonis. They are Tech 12. A number of base items are Tech 12, like Mzungu Transdims.
- Aug
- Abbreviated form of augmenter. Used as permanent enhancements to ships, permanent drones, and stations.
- AT
- Augmenter Tweaking, a skill which increases all stats on a player's augmenters by 2%.
- ana
- (1) Refers to Sniper Analysis, a special item for (as of writing) Sniper class which builds damage and critical strength bonuses over time while a target is attacked by the player's weapons, building up over two minutes at a rate of seconds equal to the specific weapon that hits the target. ITs bonuses are lost when the player targets, attacks, and end up hitting a new target.
B
- Base
- A space station used for trading or construction. Sometimes player-owned. See: Station
- BE
- Bule Eradicator.
- BK
- Bana King, short for UrQa'qa Qu'ishi.
C
D
- Destroyed
- (1) Used to describe a base, drone, fighter, missile, or bot that has been killed beyond recovery.
- (2) Used to describe a destroyed base that can be recovered using a repair kit, or a player ship that has been destroyed and enters into stasis.
- Drone
- An autonomous attack platform. Requires the Drone Deployment skill to use.
- DD
- (1) Short for Death Debt.
- (2) Short for Drone Deployment.
- DM
- Short for Drone Master. A secondary skill providing bonuses in drone deployment.
- DWO
- (1) Short for Death Warmed Over, a long range, non-tracking fire-based weapon.
- (2) Short for DeathWarmedOver, a retired player. Lead the Capitalists and became an Emperor.
- DHO
- Short for Death Heated Over. Weapon similar to Death Warmed Over.
- Drag
- Using a tractor to pull a ship or base. Sometimes the maneuver is used to speed a ship up.
- DS
- Short for Death Striker, a rare, powerful, and high-tech ship.
- DPS
- Damage Per Second. Used to measure the amount of damage a weapon can deal per second.
- DPE
- Damage Per Energy. Ratio describing how much damage a weapon does per unit of energy used.
E
- EDC
- Emperor's Drone Controller.
- EDM
- Electrified Defense Matrix.
- EPS
- Energy Per Second. Describes how much energy a weapon can use per second. Also can describe how much an energy source regenerates per second. See Also: Regen
- EXP
- Experience Points.
F
- F1, F2, F3, Etc...
- Highly sought after "Faranji" alien energy source. The higher the number, the more powerful the energy is. The full names are Faranji Energy 1, Faranji Energy 2, and so forth.
- F2P
- Free to Play. Used to describe an account that is not subscribed to the game.
G
- Gimmo
- Short for Great Immolation, a short-ranged heat weapon that causes some damage to the user when fired.
- GnT, GaT
- Abbreviation of "Give and Take". A rare shield.
I
- Incin
- Short for Incineration, a short-ranged self-damaging heat weapon.
- Immo
- Short for Immolation, a short-ranged self-damaging heat weapon.
- Item Form
- Used to describe a ship that behaves like an item. Ships in item form take up space, have weight, and can be placed into inventories. When a ship in item form is sold through a player base, it becomes a full ship and leaves item form. Ships which are built from blueprints come as items. A ship that is not in item form can be made an item by submitting a Support Ticket and paying a fee.
J
- Jump
- To travel between galaxies using a gate.
- Jump Gate
- A connection between two star systems. Different color jump gates designate the Warp skill needed to use that gate.
L
- LC
- Love Cylinder. Medium range, tracking surgical weapon.
M
- MisD
- Short for Misdirection. A highly sought after shield with a high rate of regeneration.
- MF
- Short for Multifiring. A secondary skill that allows a player to fire multiple weapons at once.
- MFM
- Short for Merchant Fleet Mastery. A secondary skill that allows for large hulls on bots.
N
- Noob, Newb, Choob, Etc...
- Used to describe a new player. Oftentimes the word carries a negative connotation. Sometimes used as a synonym to acting childish.
O
- OS
- (1) Overloader Stable. (See: Overloaders)
- (2) Over Sized.
- OHL
- Open Heart Laser. Medium range, beam-style surgical weapon.
- Oly
- (1) Olympus. (See: Olympus)
P
- PC
- (1) Prismatic Conversion. Used in conjunction with a radiation weapon to capture AI ships. A projectile from the weapon is a short-ranged, small, slow-moving red sphere.
- (2) Price Check.
- Pill Box
- Synonym for drone.
- PM
- Private Message. To PM someone means to open a private chat channel with them using the `/w command. A PM is the conversation held within that channel.
- Pod
- Short for escape pod.
- Podded
- (1) To be killed while in pod form.
- (2) To be ejected from a ship inside a pod.
- Prom
- Short for Promethium. An important commodity used for some skills and blueprints.
- Prom Sun
- A sun with asteroids where Fermium can be mined for conversion into Promethium.
- PtE
- Poseidon the Earthshaker, an augmenter.
- P2P
- Pay to Play. Used to describe a player or account who has purchased a subscription.
R
- Rats
- Short for Rations. Used on bases to feed colonies and workers. Made from Space Oats.
- Regen
- (1) Synonym for EPS.
- (2) Synonym for SPS.
- (3) "To regen." Used to describe the process of one's shield or energy bank recharging.
S
- A semi-autonomous ship controlled by a player. Requires the skill "Remote Control".
- (*) "Control Botting." Used to describe the process of creating a bot. See also: Capping
- SM
- (1) Short for Station Management. Skill needed to make bases.
- (2) Short for Fleet Commander Class. Secondary skill that increases the effectiveness of bots.
- (3) Short for Station Mastery. Trade skill that increases the effectiveness of a player's stations.
- SP
- Skill Points. Skill Points are necessary to acquire skills and are earned through gaining Experience. Once a player has earned enough Experience, his Experience Points are reset to 0 and he advances a level. 5 Skill Points are awarded each level.
T
- Trag
- Traginium. Very rare mineral used for obtaining further levels of Remote Control in Serpica.
- TW
- Transwarp.
W
- Warp
- (1) Short for Warp Navigation, a skill that determines what level of star systems a player can enter.
- (2) Synonymous to Jump.
- Warp Gate
- Synonymous to Jump Gate.
