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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.

• AI - Noun: Astral Injection skill. Skill required to place augmenters in 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

• Drone - Noun: Autonomous attack platform. Requires the Drone Deployment skill to use.

• 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.

• DD (2) - Noun: Short for Drone Deployment. Skill required to use drones.

• 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.

• DWO (2) - Noun: Short for DeathWarmedOver, a retired player. Lead the Capitalists and became an Emperor.

• DHO - Acronym: Death Heated Over. Weapon similar to Death Warmed Over.

• 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

• Incin - Noun: Short for Incineration, a short-ranged self-damaging heat weapon.

• 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

• OHL - Noun: Open Heart Laser. Medium range, beam-style surgical weapon. The beam is light blue.

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 (1) - Noun: Short for Station Management. Skill needed to make bases.

• 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

• Trag - Traginium. Very rare mineral used for obtaining further levels of Remote Control in Serpica.

W

• Warp (1) - Noun: Short for Warp Navigation, a skill that determines what level of star systems you can enter.

• Warp (2) - Verb: See "Jump".

• Warp Gate - Noun: See "Jump Gate".