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     * Insystem-Jump - Link
 
     * Insystem-Jump - Link
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           o You can use some Jumppoints to jump from one side of an system to another. You can recognise them by their name. It points to the same system you are currently in.
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           o You can use some Jumppoints to jump from one side of an system to another.
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You can recognise them by their name. It points to the same system you are currently in.
 
           o See also VsManualInterstellarWarpTransit
 
           o See also VsManualInterstellarWarpTransit
 
     * Insystem-Travel - Link
 
     * Insystem-Travel - Link
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           o See also VsManualDbFactionsMechanists
 
           o See also VsManualDbFactionsMechanists
 
     * Meson - Link
 
     * Meson - Link
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           o RLD: An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0.
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           o RLD: An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus;
 +
a hadron with a baryon number of 0.
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Meson
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Meson
 
     * Meson-Weapons - Link
 
     * Meson-Weapons - Link
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     * Particle-Weapons - Link
 
     * Particle-Weapons - Link
 
           o Category: Weapons
 
           o Category: Weapons
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           o Weapons which use very small projectiles, usually sub-molecular, but in very large quantities per shot.
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           o Weapons which use very small projectiles, usually sub-molecular, but in very
 +
large quantities per shot.
 
     * Pause - Link
 
     * Pause - Link
 
           o RLD: To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
 
           o RLD: To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
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           o
  
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             In Vegastrike you can 'pause' the whole time/space-continuum in singleplayer-mode by pressing the assigned key for pause.
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             In Vegastrike you can 'pause' the whole time/space-continuum in singleplayer-mode by
 +
pressing the assigned key for pause.
 
                 + See also VsManualKeyboardLayout#Game-Commands
 
                 + See also VsManualKeyboardLayout#Game-Commands
 
                 + See also VsManualGameplayFunctions#Pause
 
                 + See also VsManualGameplayFunctions#Pause
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     * Space - Link
 
     * Space - Link
 
           o RLD: That which is between objects of interest.
 
           o RLD: That which is between objects of interest.
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           o A rather large, dark, and primarily empty expanse where, contrary to one’s initial fears, one is exceptionally unlikely to be eaten by a grue.
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           o A rather large, dark, and primarily empty expanse where, contrary to one’s initial
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           o The void in which one must travel if one does not wish to spend ones existence wandering around the underdeveloped worlds of minor political entities.
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fears, one is exceptionally unlikely to be eaten by a grue.
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           o The void in which one must travel if one does not wish to spend ones existence
 +
wandering around the underdeveloped worlds of minor political entities.
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Space#Astronomy
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Space#Astronomy
 
     * Space-Travel/Faring - Link
 
     * Space-Travel/Faring - Link
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           o Space Travel is the physical exploration of outer-homeplanet objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.
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           o Space Travel is the physical exploration of outer-homeplanet objects and generally
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anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Space_travel
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Space_travel
  
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           o xxx
 
           o xxx
 
     * Terraform - Link
 
     * Terraform - Link
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           o RLD: To transform a landscape (the climatic conditions and more) on another planet into one having the characteristics of landscapes on #Earth.
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           o RLD: To transform a landscape (the climatic conditions and more) on another
 +
planet into one having the characteristics of landscapes on #Earth.
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Terraform
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Terraform
 
           o This is a Human term for this since Terra is just another word for #Earth the Humans homeworld.
 
           o This is a Human term for this since Terra is just another word for #Earth the Humans homeworld.
 
           o The first planet terraformed by Humans was #Mars.
 
           o The first planet terraformed by Humans was #Mars.
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    * Torpedo - Link
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          o Category: Weapons
 
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          o RLD: link
 
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          o RLD: A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target.
 
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          o RLD: WikiPedia:Torpedo
 
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          o In space there is no real difference between a #Missile and a #Torpedo, but the term #Torpedo is often used to name a slower and not that agile #Missile.
 
  
 
[U] - Index
 
[U] - Index

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The text below is just a DRAFT and may be changed completly in the future. The classification of the UNLINKED TERMS is not defined or unclear and can/should be discussed in the talk section (e.g factions vs species, some Upgrades and more)

See also

A

Aera | AI | Ancients | Andolians | Antimatter | Antimatter Weapons | Aristocracy | Artificial Gravity | Artificial Intelligence | Autotracking

B

Bzbr (faction), Bzbr (species)

C

Cloaking | Cloaking Device | Communication (Insystem/Interstellar) | Credits

D

Dgn | Disruptor Weapons

E

Earth | ECM | Electronic Counter Measures | Entertainment

F

Flak | Flak Weapons | Forsaken | FTL travel | Fusion (Nuclear-) | Fusion Weapons

G

Gauss | Gauss Weapons | Gravity

H

Heat Seeking Technology | High Born | Humanity | Hunters

I

Identification Friend or Foe | IFF | Image Recognition Technology | Inertial Compensators | ntertial Targeting and Tracking System Insystem Jump | Insystem Travel (Normal) | Insystem Travel (Highspeed) -> SPEC | Interstellar Travel | Interstellar Warp Transit | Ion | Ion Weapons | ISO | ITTS

J

Jump | Jump Drive

K

Klkk

L

Laser | Laser Weapons | Leech Weapons | Light | Lightspeed | LIHW | Lmpl | Luddites


M

Mars | Mass Driver | Mass Driver Weapons | Mechanists | Meson | Meson Weapons | Merchant Marine | Merchants | Meritocracy | Mishtali | Missile | Music

N

Nanites | Nano Plague | Neutron | Neutron Weapons | Nuclear Weapons | Nuhln

O

Oligarchy

P

Particles | Particle Weapons | Pause | Photon | Photon Weapons | Plasma | Plasma Weapons | Point Defense | Purists

Q

R

Rlaan | Rlaan Merchants

S

Saahasayaay | Shapers | Shields | Shmrn | SOL | Solar System | Space | Space Travel/Faring | SPEC (-drive) | SuSim (Super Simian) | SuSim Cyborg (SuSimCy)

T

Tachyon | Tachyon Weapons | Terraform (-ing) | Torpedo | Tractor

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Old Data

Warning: This page is just a dump of previous text 

Terms-Index: #A #B #C #D #E #F #G #H #I #J #K #L #M #N #O #P #Q #R #S #T #U #V #W #X #Y #Z

[A] - Index

    * Aera - Link
          o Category: Species/Factions
          o See also VsManualDbSpecies
    * Ancients - Link
          o Category: Species/Factions
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesAncients
          o xxx
    * Andolians - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsAndolians
    * Antimatter-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Aristocracy - Link
          o Category: Form of government
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Aristocracy
    * Artificial-Gravity - Link
          o xxx
    * Autotracking - Link
          o xxx

[B] - Index

    * Bzbr - Link
          o Category: Species/Factions/VsManualDbFactions?
          o #Aera memegroup
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesBzbr
          o See also VsManualDbFactions (should be VsManualDbFactionsBzbr?)

[C] - Index

    * Cloaking - Link
          o xxx
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Stealth_technology
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Camouflage
    * Cloaking-Device - Link
          o xxx
          o See also: VsManualCombat#Cloaking-Device

[D] - Index

    * Dgn - Link
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesDgn?
    * Disruptor-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx

[E] - Index

    * Earth - Link
          o Category: Planets/Homeworlds
          o Homeworld of the Human species.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Earth
 
[F] - Index

    * Flak - Link
          o short for german word "Fliegerabwehrkanone"
          o xxx
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Antiaircraft_missile
          o anti aircraft/spaceship weapon
    * Flak-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Forsaken - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsForsaken?
    * FTL - Link
          o short for "Faster Then Light"
          o Alternative word: "supraluminal"
          o RLD: General term to describe travelling faster than #Lightspeed.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Faster-than-light
    * Fusion-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx

[G] - Index

    * Gauss-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Gravity - Link
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Gravity
          o xxx

[H] - Index

    * Heat-Seeking-Technology - Link
          o RLD: WikiPEdia:Guidance_system -> "Optical guidance"
          o See also #Missile
    * High-Born - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsHighBorn
    * Humanity - Link
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpecies
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Humanity
    * Hunters - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o #Rlaan memegroup
          o xxx

[I] - Index

    * Identification Friend Or Foe -> #IFF
    * IFF - Link
          o Short for "Identification Friend Or Foe"
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Identification_friend_or_foe
          o See also #Missile
    * Image-Recognition-Technology - Link
          o Short: "Imrec"
          o xxx
          o See also #Missile
    * Inertial-Compensators - Link
          o Wikipedia:Inertial_compensator (not an RLD)
          o xxx
    * Insystem-Jump - Link
          o You can use some Jumppoints to jump from one side of an system to another.
You can recognise them by their name. It points to the same system you are currently in.
          o See also VsManualInterstellarWarpTransit
    * Insystem-Travel - Link
          o #Insystem-Travel is a normally used to describe the travel inside a star-system (like #SOL)
          o Traveling bewteen starsystems is commonly called #Interstellar-Warp-Transit
          o See also the #SPEC Drive
          o See also: VsManualAdvancedFlight
          o See also: VsManualMatchVelocity
    * Insystem-Travel-Highspeed - Link
          o See also the #SPEC Drive
    * Interstellar-Warp-Transit - Link
          o See also VsManualInterstellarWarpTransit
    * Ion-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * ISO - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsIso

[J] - Index

    * Jump / Jumping - Link
          o See also #Insystem-Jump
          o See also #Interstellar-Warp-Transit

[K] - [Index

    * Klkk - Link
          o Correct Notation: Klk'k
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesKlkk

[L] - Index

    * Laser-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o RLD: Link
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Laser
          o

            Laser types
                + pulsed laser
                + beam laser
    * Leech-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Light - Link
          o RLD: Light consists basically of #Photons (in two states, waves and particles).
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Light
    * Lightspeed - Link
          o RLD: The speed of light (light= #Photon)
          o RLD: Lighspeed is approximately 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
          o terms also used: "speed of light" and "Light speed"
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Speed_of_light
    *

      LIHW - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsLihw
    *

      Lmpl - Link
          o Category: Species
          o #Rlaan memegroup
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesLmpl
    *

      Luddites - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsLuddites
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Luddites

[M] - Index

    * Mass-Driver - Link
          o xxx
    * Mass-Driver-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Mechanists - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsMechanists
    * Meson - Link
          o RLD: An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus;
a hadron with a baryon number of 0.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Meson
    * Meson-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Merchant-Marine - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o #Aera memegroup
          o xxx
    * Merchants - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsMerchants
    * Meritocracy - Link
          o Category: Form of government
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Meritocracy
    * Mishtali - Link
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesMishtali
    * Missile - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o RLD: An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Missile
          o See also #Torpedo


[N] - Index

    *

      Nanites - Link
          o xxx
          o See #AI
    *

      Nano-Plague (The) - Link
          o xxx
          o See #AI
    * Nuhln - Link
          o Category: Species
          o #Rlaan memegroup
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesNuhln

[O] - Index

    * Oligarchy - Link
          o Category: Form of government
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Oligarchy

[P] - Index

    * Particle-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o Weapons which use very small projectiles, usually sub-molecular, but in very
large quantities per shot.
    * Pause - Link
          o RLD: To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
          o RLD: link
          o

            In Vegastrike you can 'pause' the whole time/space-continuum in singleplayer-mode by
pressing the assigned key for pause.
                + See also VsManualKeyboardLayout#Game-Commands
                + See also VsManualGameplayFunctions#Pause
    * Photon-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Plasma-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Purists - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsPurists

[Q] - Index

[R] - Index

    *

      Rlaan - Link
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesRlaan
    *

      Rlaan-Merchants - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o #Rlaan memegroup
          o xxx

[S] - Index

    * Saahasayaay - Link
          o Category: Species
          o #Rlaan memegroup
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesSaahasayaay
    * Shapers - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsShapers
    * Shmrn - Link
          o Category: Species
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesShmrn
    * SOL - Link
          o Category: Planets/Homeworlds
          o RLD: The latin name for the sun in the human homesystem.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Sol
          o See also #Solar-System
    * Solar-System - Link
          o Category: Planets/Homeworlds
          o RLD: The human homesystem.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Solar_system
          o terms also used: "SOL-System"
          o Sometimes also referred to as #SOL though this is the name of it's central star.
    * Space - Link
          o RLD: That which is between objects of interest.
          o A rather large, dark, and primarily empty expanse where, contrary to one’s initial
fears, one is exceptionally unlikely to be eaten by a grue.
          o The void in which one must travel if one does not wish to spend ones existence
wandering around the underdeveloped worlds of minor political entities.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Space#Astronomy
    * Space-Travel/Faring - Link
          o Space Travel is the physical exploration of outer-homeplanet objects and generally
anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Space_travel

[T] - Index

    * Tachyon - Link
          o RLD: A hypothetical subatomic particle that always travels faster than the speed of light.
          o RLD: link
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Tachyon
    * Tachyon-Weapons - Link
          o Category: Weapons
          o xxx
    * Terraform - Link
          o RLD: To transform a landscape (the climatic conditions and more) on another
planet into one having the characteristics of landscapes on #Earth.
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Terraform
          o This is a Human term for this since Terra is just another word for #Earth the Humans homeworld.
          o The first planet terraformed by Humans was #Mars.


[U] - Index

    * Uln - Link
          o Category: Species/Factions
          o See also VsManualDbSpeciesUln
    * Unadorned - Link
          o Category: Factions
          o See also VsManualDbFactionsUnadorned

[V] - Index
[W] - Index

    * WMD - Link
          o RLD: short for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
          o Examples:
          o #Nuclear-Weapons

[X] - Index
[Y] - Index
[Z] - Index

TODO


Links

  • Excerpts from the Ivan kltakln guidebook (TXT)
  • Masterpart List - Volunteers wanted: to add some of the above terms to this list

Disclaimer

PSEUDO DISCLAIMER Some of these terminology may not reflect the real world (TM) so don't blame us if you use this for your diplom/final exam ;-)

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