AB- Abbreviation for afterburner
Sometimes used as "I AB and escaped the flux".

1. Also burner.
2. Maximum speed of a ship at full throttle and applying afterburner, as in "my tens does v550 ab".
3. All boost artefact MODx which increases PP, engine thrust, cap and shield recharge rates.

(active roiding)
Process by which a miner circles a roid whilst mining, increasing the extraction rate.

All efficiency artifact MODx which increases efficiency of engines, shield and cap.

Abbreviation for 'away from keyboard'

Shorthand for Amananth.
May refer to the station, the area of space, or products made by the Amananthii

Ships using ammunition based guns, such as Barraks/Hitmen

(Ape, Apex)
Shorthand for the Octavius starter ship, the Apteryx.

(armoured, armoring)
1. In combat, to reduce a ship's shields to zero and start to attack the armor belt. Armoring a ship is often seen as a sign of superiority in a battle and provide a cue to the injured party to flee. Armoring is sometimes used as a warning.
2. Following a collision, to have lost all shielding and some armor.

(artifact, arty, artie)
Pre-collapse equipment recovered from wreckage drifting in deep space.
Artifacts can be the best equipment pilots can get.

Commonly a ship outfitted with artifact equipment. Thus making it more powerful or efficent

Abbreviation for "At The Moment"

(back route, back door). Secondary route into an area of space, used by a small proportion of shipping. For example, the route between Aman Gate and Inner Aman is Amananth's back gate.

Tow class ship configured for combat and/or battle command and control.
Rarely seen following the introduction of scout, ranger and bomber class ships.

Abbreviation for 'be back later'. Later normally implies sometime later in the same day.

(beeks)
Abbreviation for Beacon Control Unit
A MODx can be used to tune or flip beacs

(Beek, BCU) Shorthand for TRI Beacon.

(Baby Bits, and things in a similar vein).
Reference to Octs and their alleged dietary requirements.

1. Reference to a non-pure roid that has been heavily mined and appears with a blue tint.
2. Rare wreckage.
3. More generally, a reference to Solrain.

Abbreviation for Be Right Back

(brokering, brokered)
1. Sale of items to pilots who for some reason cannot purchase them themselves. They may not be able to purchase them because of a mission requirement, or insufficient rank or political rating or have a bounty.
2. A Quantar mining laser.

1. To collide with another ship, particularly on docking, causing a change in vector which can sometimes be fatal. This can occur accidentally or intentionally.
2. To collide with any objective in space in a non-fatal way, as in "I bumped the roid while mining".
3. To move a forum thread back to the top of the board by adding a new content-free post.

Shorthand for capacitor, an equipment classification.

Capacitor boost artifact MODx which increases cap recharge rate.

Copy, instruction understood. Possibly from 'click click'

Shorthand for the Solrain light fighter, the Interceptor.

Flying with a Civilian registry.

Shorthand for commodity, materials sold on markets, commonly for use in production, but not equipped to ships

The home core station of a pilot.
2. The nearest core station.
Core stations are Oct Core (OC), Quantar Core (QC)and Solrain Core (SC).

Derogatory term for the Octavius bomber, the Raptor, indicative of what most octs think of its performance in combat.

Refers to a ship's v when applying full throttle on a straight course, as in "this ranger has a v550 cruise".

Capacitor storage artifact MODx which increases cap energy storage.

1. Commonly, the time interval between moments when stations produce items and place them on the market.
2. Any server based code loop that occurs at regular intervals, for example, an hourly stock decay cycle.

A Beacon found in a direct line between two gates, or a beacon that has a roid on the other side, and hence posing a navigational hazard.
Historically Beacons used to only be seen visually within 10k range, creating similar problems to Death Roids. Beacs are now easier to see and this is less of a problem.
Locations include Imperial Causeway and The Split.

A roid found in a direct line between two gates, sometimes between, sometimes close to one. These roids are frequently hit by pilots who are not paying attention or travelling too fast or too heavy to be able to adjust their course to avoid hitting the death roid. Locations include Callow Passage (two including Clarence), The Reaches (Named Emma), Lesser Locks (by Main Gate gate), The Dark, Last Point, Inner Lighthouse (by Wanderer's Pond gate), and The Stith (Connexion to Last Parsec route).

1. Commonly any area of a sector's space not within radar range of main shipping lanes or structures. Some use the term to refer to areas further out, past any roid fields.
2. Location of pilots who don't seem to want to be found.

Shorthand for developer
1. Commonly reffered to Netdevil

(unreg)
Ungregulated space No laws are enforced here.

(discoed)
1. Shorthand for 'disconnected from the server', normally unintentional.
2. Intentional disconnection when about to enter a fatal combat, sometimes "combat disco
3. Bug that often occurs to other players after they've flown into deep space to avoid some unpleasant fate. They usually reconnect at a station a few minutes later with all their artifacts intact or without that temporary bounty they had.

(DB, Dive Bombing). Combat tactic in which a pilot launches one or more high powered but poorly guided missiles, such as torps and Nukes, as they pass close to their foe, ensuring a hit and giving the foe no warning to evade. Contrast with missile spam.

1. Artifact data storage system disk, of little value but prone to regular discovery by artefact hunters.

To leave a sector with a flux on your tail, which then immediately turns and fires upon another pilot. Primarily to do this with dangerous flux without warning. As in, "I was busy dealing with the Jelly when someone dumped a Krak on me".

Engine boost artifact MODx which increases engine thrust.

Abbreviation for 'Electronic Counter Measures' or 'Evasion and Counter Measures', a class of equipment which reduces the effective range of other pilots' radars against you.

1. Abbreviation for Evenings End station.
2. Energy efficiency artefact MODx which reduces engine power consumption.

A particularly famous death roid in The Reaches. Emma is a large piece of semi in a dark sector, causing so many loses that many pilots prefer to take an alternative longer route to Hyp.

(Deaths caused by Emma 8000+)

Shorthand for TRI Enforcer, a TRI fighter, normally of comparable power to a sent.
The Enforcers are normally flown by OPs or GMs.

Abbreviation for Empowered Players, pilots who answer /assist requests [ US ].

Shorthand for experience points.

1. Abbreviation for FlashFire, a MODx, or the use of a FlashFire.
2. Abbreviation for FeatherFire, a gun (less common).

Abbreviation for free-for-all PvP combat, usually in sim.

(flipping)
Changing the color of a beacon by re-tuning it, normally as a hostile act. The term 'flipping beacons back' is often applied to returning beacons to the color of the faction space they are in. Coloring grey beacons is normally just called tuning.

Shorthand for 'Conflux', pink alien shipping.

(fluxxing, fluxoring).
To fly around specifically looking for flux to kill.

Abbreviation for a Faction Mission.

1. Commonly to attack a pilot who is normally capable of defending themselves, but currently is particularly vulnerable
2. Having the bad manners to fly about with your squad mates and shoot people.

Shorthand for jumpgate, the structure allowing travel between sectors rather than the game itself. Also see infest and petal

Pilot who waits by a gate ready to fire at whoever has the misfortune to jump in and not respond quick enough (often due to radar lag). This is less of a problem following the introduction of a short period of immunity for pilots that have just jumped, although lightly shielded or heavy ships may still be effectively gate camped.

(Insti).
Shorthand for Instigator, an expensive PowerPlant constructed at Amananth station.

1. Abbreviation for good fight, often heard after a PvP battle.
2. Abbreviation for girl friend.

1. Pilot who appears to be in a state they are no longer in due to lag or a disco, such as appearing to have missed a gate even though they have already jumped, or appearing to have no armor or shield in combat but still being alive.
2. A bugged flux that cannot be killed and/or appears with negative armor and/or appears momentarily on the radar but then disappears without warning (the later may genuinely be cloaked if a sentinent). Such bugs and glitches are normally caused by a flux not being transferred between players' clients correctly.
3. A roid which blends into background, causing pilots to hit it before even realising it was there.
4. A type of ECM.

Abbreviation for Games Master, a term variously encompassing server administrators, devs and those providing or guiding storyline. [RP]

Perfect quality wreckage. (artifact)

Abbreviation for Great Pillars station, sometimes Great Pillers.

(griefer, griefing)
1. An attack on a pilot at random for no obvious reason, including disregarding RP. Targets are normally unlikely or unable to fight back, and griefers will normally avoid more honourable (and dangerous) PvP focused pilots.
2. Arbitrary and wanton acts which cause OOC damage to other players or impinge disproportionately on their enjoyment of the game.

Abbreviation for Heavy Fighter

Flying with an Honor Guard registry.

Using the /home command at any unreg station. Instead of returning to the last faction station you docked at, your pod returns to the unreg station that you homed too

Abbreviation for Heads Up Display.

Shorthand for Hyperial or Hyperion. May refer to the station, the area of space, or products made by Hyperion.

Abbreviation for 'in character', a comment or action made specifically by the player's character. Contrast to OOC (out of character).

Shorthand for the infestation of a gate by flux, preventing its use.

Specifically a tow fully loaded with Iridium, making it so heavy as to take hours to reach a destination and be almost impossible to defend in the meantime. The term can be applied to any very heavy or slow moving tow. Also see stuffed.

Jellyfish, a very weak flux, primarily designed to give noobs something to kill. The basis of jokes about a pilot's lack of fluxing ability or the tendency of Jellyfish to spawn alongside upper level flux.
A joke commonly heard by players "Oh NO!!!! ITS TEH JELLY!!!!! RUN!!! FLEEE!!!!"

Abbreviation for JumpGate, the game.

Abbreviation for Jumpgate Operating System SHell. Technically refers to both the in-station and web page interfaces, although more commonly the later.

Combat technique involving a head on attack in the style of Medieval knights, aiming to inflict more damage on your enemy in each pass than your enemy does on you.

Abbreviation for Klatsches Hold station.

Abbreviation for Kill on Sight, a particularly hostile diplomatic state.

Shorthand for Kracken, a class of flux. (c8 C9)

Abbreviation for Lothars Landing station.

To hide a ship from the radars of others by stopping very close to an object such as a large roid or a station.

Abbreviation for medium class fighters.

Launching multiple high powered missiles, specifically Morning Stars, to kill another pilot without requiring much PvP skill. Contrast to dive bomb.

Class of equipment commonly with specialist roles, such as cameras or targeting computers.

Abbreviation for the Morning Star missile. Also see missile spam.

Second or inactive account used specifically to store items, normally essential or rare equipment, often used to instantly re-equip pilots after a death. Most mules are storage tows.

Abbreviation for Non Aggression Pact, a diplomatic state where those involved effectively ignore one another with regard to combat.

1. To be or to be made worse, as in "they nerfed the nix" or "the turkey is nerfed".
2. To rebalance correctly, as in "nerf the tens."

Shorthand for the Octavian fighter, the Pheonix.

(stock equipment). Starting equipment, provided to new pilots and any pilot after a death.

1. General term for a Glaive, Maul or Saber - missiles armed with a potent warhead, originally designed to damage infests.
2. Related to rad roids, as in "nuke shard", a mining medal

No Problems

Abbreviation for 'out of character', a comment or action made by the player rather than the player's character. Contrast to IC.

Abbreviation for on my way.

(petaled)
Normally occures to cargo ships when they get thrown off course a little and hits one of the jumpgate's 3 Petals (Grey 3 pronged thing)

Powerplant boost artifact MODx which increases Powerplant efficiency

Abbreviation for pre-collapse shield, an artifact.

Abbreviation for pre-collapse engine, an artifact.

Abbreviation for pre-collapse powerplant, an artefact.

(petalled, petalling, Death Petal, Death Flower)
1. The solid support structure that appears to hold gates in position.
2. To hit and be killed by the structure in (1), as in "I petalled", sometimes used as "clipped the petal" implying an unseen wing hit a petal rather than the ship being propelled straight into a petal. There are various obscure references to flowers, most of which refer to petalling, such as "eat Lotus".
3. To kill another ship, including flux, by forcing them to collide with a petal, as in "the Jelly petalled".

Shorthand for the Quantar fighter, the Typhoon.

1. A Device that returns you to the station after a death, as in "pod ride home".
2. To kill another pilot.
3. Pirated for credits, normally with the message 'Pay or Die'.

1. Abbreviation for Player Owned Station, an EP2 feature.
2. Abbreviation for Pilot Owned Station, the RP version.

Process by which new characters of experienced players seek to rapidly acquire experience and rank (level) and may temporarily ignore secondary aspects of gameplay like RP. Examples include "levelling a storage tow" by fluxing big flux. There are a few examples of players power levelling right up to level 50.

Shorthand for people

Abbreviation for Player vs Player combat. Normally, but not always, the players involved consent to the combat, for example by flying HG.

Abbreviation for Quantar Core station.

Shorthand for Quantar. May refer to pilots, the area of space, or products made by the Quantar.

Shorthand for Barrak, an ammo gun.

Shorthand for 'regulated space', those sectors and stations under the control of TRI. Contrast to unreg.

1. The hexagonal targeting rings that are used to guide ships into a station's docking tube. Often used to report progress of a ship, as in "the tow's in the rings and about to dock".
2. Less commonly, a beacon.

(roided, roiding)
1. Shorthand for an asteroid of any type including asteroid fields.
2. To mine asteroids, as in "roiding".
3. To radar mask.
4. To die by hitting a roid at speed.
5. To kill a flux by forcing it to crash against a roid, as in "I roided the Squid".

1. Abbreviation for 'RolePlay'.
2. Used to imply an event or activity been done IC, as in "there's an RP at hyp atm".

Shield boost artefact MODx which increases shield recharge rate.

Abbreviation for Solrain Core station.

Shield efficiency artefact MODx which reduces shield recharge power consumption.

Shorthand for sentient Conflux, flux which are more powerful, skilled, faster and unpredictable than most. OOCly sents are piloted by humans, contrasting with most flux which are computer controlled. Sents are not to be confused with Sentinels, which are a type of radar.

Shorthand for simulator.

Shorthand for Solrain. May refer to pilots, the area of space, or products made by Solrain.

(stripper, stripping).
1. Removal of carefully stocked equipment from a station with the intention of making it more difficult for pilots based there to re-equip. An extreme form involves splashing.
2. To influence production by removing certain commods from a station.

1. To fire upon a flux which is being towed, causing it to attack you and ignore its former tower.
2. Normally in the plural: Designation as either civ or HG, as in "I would've attacked but I still had my civ tags on".

(Tensity, Tense, Tensi, Tensy, etc). Shorthand for the Solrain fighter ship, the Intensity.

1. Shorthand for a Cargo Tow, a class of cargo ship. Also see storage tow, iridium tow and buff.
2. Trucking, as in "towing cargo".
3. To lead a flux, allowing a second pilot to kill it without having (initially) to deal with it attacking them. It is now common for the pilots involved to wing.

Artifact (universal?) component, potentially usable to produce other equipment, but often regarded in a similar way to DSSs.

1. Overpowered or particularly large, for example "uber roid".
2. Of Sol origin

Shorthand for unregulated space, those sectors and stations not under the control of TRI and fall outside of the bounty system. Also neutral or deregulated space. Contrast to reg.

Indication of velocity, as in "that Gust just FFed past me at v650 - must be artied.

Shorthand for the Solrain medium fighter, the Invader.

Abbreviation for wrong channel, normally following a line of chat that was unintentionally sent to the channel by hitting the wrong f-key.

Weapons efficiency artefact MODx which reduces weapon power consumption.