Slang

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A list of commonly used slang by spessmen (players) in the community.

IC

Frequently used terms In Character, this can also be used OOC.

Command Abbreviations

Command jobs are commonly abbreviated to save time. The abbreviations are generally not used in higher roleplay enviroments.

APC

An Area Power Controller, converting MV to LV.

HV

The orange cable, the raw essence of power.

MV

The yellow cable, converted from HV thru substations.

LV

The green cable powering (almost) everything, converted from MV thru APCs.

Atmos

Short for Atmospherics.

Atmosian

A term for Atmospheric Technicians, or generally anyone who spends most of their round in Atmos.

Antag

Short for Antagonists, which are specifically picked individuals designed to drive the round into chaos.

Self-Antag

A term for the action of being an antag without the game specifically telling you to, which is a rulebreak.

Bolt/Bolted

The red lights on a door, meaning that it is locked and requires Hacking to unbolt.

Braindead

Refers to a user who has disconnected from the game.

• • NOTE (VERY IMPORTANT): THIS PERSON CAN STILL COME BACK TO THE GAME!** Who knows? Maybe their computer crashed for a minute or two.

Cap

Short for Captain, the head of the heads.

CE

Short for Chief Engineer, the head of the Engineering Department.

CentCom/Central Command

The administration branch of Nanotrasen, managing most Space Stations. Nanotrasen has other stuff to do, like wage war on the Syndicate!

CMO

Short for Chief Medical Officer, the head of the Medical Department.

Crit

Refers to your body being in Critical Condition, where you are horizontal and unable to move. You will slowly suffocate to death, Antagonist.

HoP

Short for Head of Personnel, the controller of the ID Console and head of the Service Department. Usually fully capitalized as HOP.

HoS

Short for Head of Security, the head of Security. Usually fully capitalized as HOS.

RD

Short for Research Director, the head of the Science Department.

QM

Short for Quartermaster, the head of Cargo.

God

An IC term representing a Game Administrator.

Nukie

What the hardcore members of the Syndicate are called. They are heavily armed space terrorists who will stop at nothing to detonate a nuclear weapon on the station.

SSD

Short for Sudden Sleep Disorder - see below for definition.

Space Sleep Disorder

Commonly abbreviated as SSD. Also known as Sudden Sleep Disorder. An IC term for AFK. A virulent disease affecting spacemen far and wide, SSD causes spacemen to sleep with their eyes open, standing up.

Syndie/Syndi/Syndicate

What members of the Syndicate are usually called. Top enemy of Nanotrasen, the company you work for. Syndies can be either traitors or nuclear operatives, although if they are nukeops they are usually called Nukies instead.

NT/Nanotrasen

The company you work for.

Spess

A term to define the comedy/"random bullshit go" type of space games.

Spessmen

A term to define the deranged enough to work in Spess.

OOC

Frequently used terms Out of Character, this can be in the OOC chat channel or in the Discord/Forum. Usage of this slang IC is prohibited by the rules.

AHelp/Admin Help

A chatbox which you can report rulebreaking to any online admins or the Discord.

Bwoink

Refers to receiving an AHelp, god bless your soul if you get one.

Nyanotrasen

The most popular unofficial server. Nyanotrasen contains many different features such as a radically different Science department and many new species. Nyanotrasen is MRP.

Upstream

The baseline version of the game. Any changes to Upstream will "flow" down to all other forks of the game. All official Wizden servers work off of Upstream.

Wizden

The official Wizard's Den group of servers. They function off of Upstream, and so are the baseline for all other servers.

LRP

Low RolePlay servers, where roleplay rules are relaxed.

MRP

A mix between LRP and HRP, standing for Medium RolePlay. Generally you're wanting to do your role, however a strongly defined character isn't required and you should simply aim to roleplay an actual person.

HRP

High roleplay servers, where roleplay is required and you aim to actually follow the design and personality of your character (this generally includes doing your role, as your character probably wants to keep that role.) Backstory and flavortext is strongly recommended.