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* Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: [[Fuel Scoops|sunskimming]] | * Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: [[Fuel Scoops|sunskimming]] | ||
* Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled) | * Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled) | ||
| + | * Randomius Factoria: a deity invoked in [[The Dark Wheel]] and elsewhere. The god/dess of chance/luck? | ||
* Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an [[Career Options|asteroid miner]] | * Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an [[Career Options|asteroid miner]] | ||
* Scutter: a low-grade technician | * Scutter: a low-grade technician | ||
Revision as of 08:42, 17 December 2020
- Abbo dabbo: "space madness"; Witchspace psychosis
- Annie: an Anaconda
- Blues: police
- Bug: Thargoid
- C-monkey: a spacer (pilot or crewman -- usually specifically human or humanoid)
- Cobby: a Cobra (usually followed by "One" or "Three", to distinguish a Cobra Mark I or a Cobra Mark III)
- Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step: deceased
- Dock-jock/Dock jockey: station dockmaster
- Doughnut: a Torus station
- Downer: a fuel leak
- Ferdy: a Fer-de-Lance
- Hardhead: an ECM Hardened Missile
- Iron ass: a heavily shielded ship
- Jameson: an inexperienced pilot
- Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: sunskimming
- Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled)
- Randomius Factoria: a deity invoked in The Dark Wheel and elsewhere. The god/dess of chance/luck?
- Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an asteroid miner
- Scutter: a low-grade technician
- Slim/Slim Jim: a Cobra Rapier
- Spacer: noun, generic term for a person who lives a predominantly spacebound existence, opposite to a planetbound existence.
- Sparkler: a plasma cannon
- Squawk: distress call
- Squealer: an ECM
- Sucker: a planet-dweller
- Sunshine: Quirium
- Tagalong: any ship which uses another ship's wormhole to make a witchjump to the same destination
