3deo: a holographic video.
AAP (sometimes AAP syringe): Air-Assisted-Pump; an instrument that injects compounds into the bloodstream by means of air pressure.
Alet: One of the Meredan words incorporated into Universal; it means ‘formal friend,’ and is used to people which the addressor might not know but wishes to impress a promise of accord upon. Can also be used as a suffix (and rarely, as a prefix).
AMT: Acronym for ‘Alliance Mean Time,’ the chronology used by the Alliance Core and by all Fleet and most space ships. AMT has 360 days to the year, split into 12 months of 30 days each. The format is year-day: hour.minute.second (i.e, 450-30:4.12.36).
Arii: One of the Meredan words incorporated into Universal; it means ‘friend’ and is used in the same ways. Can also be used as a suffix (and occasionally a prefix).
Breathnache: a clathrate used to manufacture battlesteel and ship hulls. Extremely strong. Black with a silvery sheen.
C-med: Chief of Medical
D-per (digital personality): Alliance AIs, a recent ‘invention.’
Data Tablet: a small personal item of variable size that can be used for accessing, storing, and displaying information. Data tablets come in various sizes with various interfaces; some have 3deo capabilities, others only 2d; some have keypads as well as a voice or gestural interface. All but the most basic kinds are tied to the u-banks, and what kind a person has depends on their taste, budget, and sometimes their organization (Fleet data tablets, for example, are standardized).
Duster: a type of cloaking device.
Feminic: a term used to describe a Fleet ship with an all-female crew (and sometimes, rarely, a non-Fleet ship)
Fin: the name for the antiquated gold coins previously used as money in the Alliance. The word ‘fin’ is now used for a unit of credit in a person’s account, while its antiquated plural (finca) is seldom seen.
Finca: the antiquated plural of ‘fin,’ now seldom used.
Genie: a wall-pad used for materialization of food and small items.
Haloarch: a span of alloys and plastic extended over a patient on a bed in order to ascertain their vital signs; also acts as the power source for the issue of the lasers and magnetic fields used with the medimage system.
Hitch: a tractor-beam
Mark: a measurement specifying the hour of the day, roughly equivalent to the expression ‘o’clock.’ Most of the Alliance Core and all Fleet facilities are based on a 24-hour clock, a hold-over from Earth. Thus 12 mark is equivalent to 12 noon, and 24 mark to midnight.
Masculic: used to describe a Fleet ship with an all-male crew (and sometimes, rarely, a non-Fleet ship).
Medplex: a generic term for a Fleet medical department or sickbay.
Night Admiral: The Admiral in charge of covert operations, including Special Forces (SF) and the Fleet Investigation Agency (FIA).
Pad: A technology that creates gates between two points in physical space, like a small wormhole. Pad technology requires aplatform on the departure side; you can Pad to a place without a platform, but you can't Pad away from that place without a platform.Pads can also be used for sanitation and disinfection; if you set the Pad location for the same place and step over it, it can decontaminate and remove any foreign particles (including dust and dirt) from the body's exterior, resulting in a quick (though generally thankless and less relaxing) way of taking a shower.
Rhack: A crude term referring to copulation, with a connotation of the male doing most of the work, female willing or not. About equivalent in acceptability to the modern expletive.
Scales: The slang term/nickname given to Fleet body armor, which is built as a suit of scales with larger plates down the front and back and smaller, interlocking scales across the sides.
Solidographic: a solid projection simulated with magnetic fields.
Spread: How one opens a static (non real-time) message.
Tank: Slang for a holographic wall display. 2-d displays of any size are known as wallscreens; if they project into three dimensions, then (in Fleet) they are tanks.
U-banks: Stands for ‘Universal Banks.’ The database of information in the Alliance, somewhat analogous to the Internet.
Universal: The common tongue of the Alliance, which is based on the American English spoken at the time of the Exodus from Earth; its purity is due to the efforts of the Seersa, to whom fell the responsibility of updating and maintaining its integrity. It does incorporate many foreign words, usually words from other races within the Alliance that have their own languages.
Viseo: 2-D video of any kind.
Wallscreen: Used for any 2-D display embedded into a wall.
Well Drive: The Well Drive creates a field around ships that allow them to wrinkle space into smaller folds and cross over them. This technology also makes possible realtime calls (via Well-pushed repeaters), though those calls are limited by bandwidth/number of people using the hardware.
White Admiral: The Admiral in charge of overt operations, including Fleet and Ground Forces.