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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 | Insystem Jump | Insystem Travel (Normal) | Insystem Travel (Highspeed) -> SPEC | Intertial Targeting and Tracking System | Interstellar Travel | Interstellar Warp Transit | Ion | Ion Weapons | ISO | ITTS

J

Jump | Jump Drive

K

Klkk

L

Laser | Laser Weapons | 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

P

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

S

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

Old Data

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 (Nuclear-) - Link
         o RLD: Nuclear Fusion is the energy-producing process which takes place continuously in suns/stars. In the core of a sun at temperatures of 10-15 million degrees Celsius, Hydrogen is converted to Helium providing enough energy to sustain life on earth.
         o RLD: link
         o RLD: WikiPedia:Fusion
   *

     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
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     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
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     Insystem-Travel-Highspeed - Link
         o See also the #SPEC Drive
   * Intertial Targeting and Tracking System -> #ITTS
   *

     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
   * ITTS - Link
         o Short for "Intertial Targeting and Tracking System"
         o ITTS displays a little dot on your HUD for where it thinks you should shoot your guns in order to hit a moving target. A slow moving target's ITTS dot is a little bit in front of them, and a fast moving target's ITTS dot is much farther in front.
         o See also VsManualCombat#ITTS

[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 - Link
         o Short for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"
         o RLD: A device that produces a coherent beam of optical radiation by stimulating electronic, ionic, or molecular transitions to higher energy levels so that when they return to lower energy levels they emit energy.
         o RLD: Lasers work as a result of resonant effects. The output of a laser is a coherent electromagnetic field. In a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy, all the waves have the same frequency and phase.
   *

     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
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     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
    * Neutron-Weapons - Link
         o Category: Weapons
         o A particle weapon (#Particle-Weapons) that makes use of neutrons as projectiles. Neutron weapons have the special burden of accelerating their projectiles without the use of electrical charge or field based methods.
   * 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

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     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
   *

     Shields - Link
         o xxx <insert general description of shield technology>
         o Combining heavy local space warping via gravitic effects with magnetic deflection for lighter charged particles, a vessel is protected from external sources of injury by what are colloquially known as "shields"
         o

           You may now ask: "If the shield protects me from external damage, how can i still fire through it?"
               + Short version - you know how space has been locally warped - an adversary will not (you can time the creation of holes and thin points in your own shields)
   *

     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
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     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.
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     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
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     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

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     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.
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     Torpedo - Link
         o Category: Weapons
         o RLD: link
         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.
         o RLD: WikiPedia:Torpedo
         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.
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     Tractor - Link
         o terms also used: "tractor beam" "tractor device"
         o A device/beam that forces the target to be attracted to the one that is using it. Considering Newtons 'laws' both objects are drawn straight to an imaginary midpoint (the speed is of course depending on their particular mass)
         o See also VsFaqPlaying#Q12

[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

• Add all homeworlds correctly <OPEN>
• Add all Factions and link to the faction-part of the wiki. <mostly done>
• Add/complete all Species and link to the species-part of the wiki. <mostly done>
• fill the remaining gaps in the descriptions (searchg for xxx in this page) <OPEN>
• add content from this posts:
  • http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18564#18564 <OPEN>
  • http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18777#18777 <all DONE>
• 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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