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Statement of Purpose

  • This document is for new players to the game who need a quick guide to some of the SS lingo.
  • This document does not cover general Internet slang like LOL, CYA, G2G, IRC, ICQ or any of the like.

Glossary

A

  • Adonis - Noun: First level of base gear to be considered serious.
  • Aggro - Noun: An AI ship that is aggressive to players of a certain level.
  • AI - Noun: Any computer controlled object in the game, including ships, bases and drones.
  • Argonaut - Noun: Second level of base gear from Adonis.
  • Aug - Noun: Abbreviated form of augmenter. Used as permanent enhancements to ships or bases.
  • AT (1) - Noun: Augmenter Tweaking, a skill which increases all stats on your augmenters by 2 percent.
  • AT (2) - Noun: Astral Travel, a skill which defines how many jumps player can autopilot.

B

  • Base - Noun: A space station used for trading or construction. Sometimes player-owned. (AKA: "Station".)

C

  • Cap (1) - Verb: To capture a ship or a base.
  • Cap (2) - Additive: Short for capacity. For example: "Anyone selling a basic cap aug?"
  • Cap (3) - Noun: Short for Capacitor. For example: "Anyone selling an Adonis energy cap?"

D

  • DD (1) - Noun: Short for Death Debt. This is achieved when your pod is destroyed, or when you die without having a pod equipped on your ship, essentially turning into a spirit. Pods are available at almost every AI station. (Never used anymore, usually spelled out.)
  • DM - Noun: Short for Drone Master. A secondary skill providing bonuses in drone deployment.
  • DWO (1) - Noun: Short for Death Warmed Over. Long range, non-tracking fire-based weapon. Deals heat damage.
  • Drag - Verb: Using a tractor to pull a ship or base. Sometimes the maneuver is used to speed a ship up. "Drag me to the station so I can dock."
  • DS - Noun: Short for Death Striker, a rare, powerful, and high-tech ship.
  • DPS - Noun: Damage Per Second. Used to describe the amount of damage a weapon or weapon and ship combo can pump out per second.
  • DPE - Noun: Damage Per Energy. Ratio describing how much damage a weapon does per unit of energy used. To some it is important in deciding what weapon to use.

E

  • EPS - Noun: Energy Per Second. Describes how much energy a weapon can use per second. Also can describe how much an energy source regenerates per second.

(Also see "Regen".)

F

  • F1 / F2 / F3 / Etc. - Noun: Highly sought after "Faranji" alien energy source. The higher the number, the more powerful the energy is. The full name is Faranji Energy 1, Faranji Energy 2, and so on.
  • F2P - Noun: A player who doesn't pay for the game. Full version of the word is "free to play."

G

  • Gimmo - Noun: Short for Great Immolation, a short-ranged heat weapon that causes some damage to the user when fired.
  • GnT / GaT - Noun: Abbreviation of "Give and Take". A rare shield.

I

  • Immo - Noun: Short for Immolation, a short-ranged self-damaging heat weapon.
  • Item Form - Adjective: When a ship is built by a player, it starts its life as an item. Ships in "item form" can be converted to usable ships by selling them on a player base with a trading bay.

J

  • Jump - Verb: Describes the process of going though a gate from one star system to another. Example: "I’m 5 jumps away" or "When I jumped into Sol, everything fired on me!"

(Also see "Jump Gate" & "Warp".)

  • Jump Gate - Noun: Connection between two star systems. Different color jump gates designate the Warp skill needed to use that gate.

(Also see "Jump".)

L

  • LC (1) - Pronoun: Light Commerce. An old team. Very powerful,
  • LC (2) - Noun: love cylinder. Medium range, tracking surgical weapon. Shots are pair of small light blue bullets.

M

  • MisD - Noun: Short for Misdirection. A sought after shield with a high rate of regeneration.
  • MF - Noun: Short for Multifiring. A secondary skill that allows a player to fire multiple weapons at once.
  • MFM - Noun: Short for Merchant Fleet Mastery. A secondary skill that allows for large hulls on slaves.

N

  • Noob / Newb / Choob / Etc. - Adjective: A sometimes derogatory comment describing someone's status in the game. Sometimes people use the different forms of the word to describe different qualities about the person. Typically, when used in a derogatory manner, it means that the person has acted in a childish or helpless manner.

O

P

  • PC - Noun / Acronym: 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.
  • PC - Abbreviation / Verb: Price Check. When inquiring price of a specific item, use it in Trade chat.
  • Pill Box - Noun: See "Drone".
  • PM: Noun / Verb: Private Message. The act of using the in-game command ‘/w "name" message’. Alternatively, it can refer to the private conversation started by using the command. Example: Verb "PM me" & Noun "Lets take it to PM".
  • Pod - Noun: Short for escape pod. Prevents death debt and loss of money when the ship enters stasis. (See "DD (1)".)
  • Podded - Verb: Having been killed and put in a pod or spirit.
  • Prom - Noun: Short for promethium. Rare, expensive material used in many construction projects. (Also available at most AI stations.)
  • Prom Sun - Noun: A sun where fermium can be mined to be converted into promethium. Typically 10-20K from the nearest gate. (See also "Prom".)
  • PtE - Abbreviation / Noun: Poseidon the Earthshaker, an augmenter.
  • P2P - Abbreviation / Noun: Short for Pay to Play. A person who pays money to play the game. This is the only way to level up past twenty.

R

  • Rats - Noun: Short for rations. Used on bases to feed colonies and workers. Produced from Space Oats.
  • Regen - Noun: Short for regeneration. Describes how much a shield or energy can regenerate per unit of time, commonly a second. Sometimes a "regen" rate is described in an ‘amount/second’ format. Example: "My F7 regens 180/1.2".

S

  • Slave - Noun: A semi-autonomous ship controlled by a player. Requires the skill "Remote Control". Adjective: "Slaved".
  • SM (2) - Noun: Short for Slave Mastery. Secondary skill that increases the effectiveness of your slaves.
  • SM (3) - Noun: Short for Station Mastery. Trade skill that increases the effectiveness of your stations.
  • SP - Noun: Skill Points. Awarded 5 each time a person levels. Skill points can be used to obtain skills at AI station under the "Neuro-Training" tab.

T

W

  • Warp (2) - Verb: See "Jump".
  • Warp Gate - Noun: See "Jump Gate".



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