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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
 
    * Antimatter-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
[B] - Index
 
 
 
[C] - Index
 
[C] - Index
 
     * Cloaking - Link
 
     * Cloaking - Link
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           o See also: VsManualCombat#Cloaking-Device
 
           o See also: VsManualCombat#Cloaking-Device
  
[D] - Index
 
    * Disruptor-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
 
[E] - Index
 
[E] - Index
 
     * Earth - Link
 
     * Earth - Link
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           o RLD: WikiPedia:Antiaircraft_missile
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Antiaircraft_missile
 
           o anti aircraft/spaceship weapon
 
           o anti aircraft/spaceship weapon
    * Flak-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
    * Fusion-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
  
 
[G] - Index
 
[G] - Index
    * Gauss-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
 
     * Gravity - Link
 
     * Gravity - Link
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Gravity
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Gravity
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           o RLD: WikiPEdia:Guidance_system -> "Optical guidance"
 
           o RLD: WikiPEdia:Guidance_system -> "Optical guidance"
 
           o See also #Missile
 
           o See also #Missile
    * Humanity - Link
 
          o Category: Species
 
          o See also VsManualDbSpecies
 
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Humanity
 
  
 
[I] - Index
 
[I] - Index
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           o See also: VsManualAdvancedFlight
 
           o See also: VsManualAdvancedFlight
 
           o See also: VsManualMatchVelocity
 
           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
 
 
[J] - Index
 
 
    * Jump / Jumping - Link
 
          o See also #Insystem-Jump
 
          o See also #Interstellar-Warp-Transit
 
 
[K] - [Index
 
  
 
[L] - Index
 
[L] - Index
 
 
     * Laser-Weapons - Link
 
     * Laser-Weapons - Link
 
           o Category: Weapons
 
           o Category: Weapons
 
           o RLD: Link
 
           o RLD: Link
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Laser
 
           o RLD: WikiPedia:Laser
           o
+
           o Laser types
 
 
            Laser types
 
 
                 + pulsed laser
 
                 + pulsed laser
 
                 + beam laser
 
                 + beam laser
    * Leech-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
[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-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
[N] - Index
 
 
[O] - Index
 
 
    * Oligarchy - Link
 
          o Category: Form of government
 
          o RLD: WikiPedia:Oligarchy
 
  
 
[P] - Index
 
[P] - Index
 
 
     * Particle-Weapons - Link
 
     * Particle-Weapons - Link
 
           o Category: Weapons
 
           o Category: Weapons
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           o RLD: To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
 
           o RLD: To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
 
           o RLD: link
 
           o RLD: link
           o
+
           o In Vegastrike you can 'pause' the whole time/space-continuum in
 
+
singleplayer-mode by pressing the assigned key for pause.
            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
    * Photon-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
    * Plasma-Weapons - Link
 
          o Category: Weapons
 
          o xxx
 
 
[Q] - Index
 
 
[R] - Index
 
  
 
[S] - Index
 
[S] - Index
 
 
     * SOL - Link
 
     * SOL - Link
 
           o Category: Planets/Homeworlds
 
           o Category: Planets/Homeworlds
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[T] - Index
 
[T] - Index
 
 
     * Tachyon - Link
 
     * Tachyon - Link
 
           o RLD: A hypothetical subatomic particle that always travels faster than the speed of light.
 
           o RLD: A hypothetical subatomic particle that always travels faster than the speed of light.
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           o Category: Weapons
 
           o Category: Weapons
 
           o xxx
 
           o xxx
[U] - Index
 
[V] - Index
 
 
[W] - Index
 
[W] - Index
 
 
     * WMD - Link
 
     * WMD - Link
 
           o RLD: short for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
 
           o RLD: short for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
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           o #Nuclear-Weapons
 
           o #Nuclear-Weapons
  
[X] - Index
 
[Y] - Index
 
[Z] - Index
 
 
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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 | Cult of the devourer

D

Democracy | Dgn | Disruptor Weapons

E

Earth | ECM | Electronic Counter Measures | Entertainment

F

Flak | Flak Weapons | Forsaken | FTL travel | Fuel | 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 | Intertial 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 | Jump Point

K

Klkk

L

Laser | Laser Weapons | Leech Weapons | Light | Lightspeed | LIHW | Lo Ad'Fai'led | Lmpl | Luddites


M

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

N

Nanites | Nano Plague | Nepotism | 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) | Sul-Gatwa high castle | SuSim (Super Simian) | SuSim Cyborg (SuSimCy)

T

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

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

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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

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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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