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Revision as of 17:35, 2 June 2005
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[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
[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
[G] - Index
* 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
[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
[L] - Index
* Laser-Weapons - Link
o Category: Weapons
o RLD: Link
o RLD: WikiPedia:Laser
o Laser types
+ pulsed laser
+ beam laser
[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
[S] - Index
* 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
[W] - Index
* WMD - Link
o RLD: short for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
o Examples:
o #Nuclear-Weapons
TODO
FIXME
- Add all homeworlds correctly <OPEN>
- they need to be classified into the category Category:Planets and Homeworlds
- Add all Factions and link from here to the pages there e.g Aera (Faction) <OPEN>
- Add all Species and link from here to the pages there e.g Aera (Species) <OPEN>
- Fill the remaining gaps in the descriptions (links that point to nonexisting pages) and 'Terminology:' entries in the Fixme Category <OPEN>
- add content from this posts:
- Add descriptions of the various weapon types <OPEN>
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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