Glossary

A

AT - Armored Transport

B

b/b, bots/bats - nanobots/shield batteries

BC - Battle Cruiser

BDN - Bureau der Marineintelligence, Rheinland's intelligence service.

BH - Bounty Hunter(s)

BHG - Bounty Hunters Guild, a player created faction.

Bots - see "nanobots".

BS/BB - Battleship

BLS - Blue Lotus Syndicate, an Outcast player created faction based at the Omicron Alpha System.

Bundies - Bundschuh

C

cap/capship - Capital ship (Gunboat, Cruiser, Battleship)

Cat - Catamaran Kusari Bomber

CC - Cruiser

CD - Cruise Disruptors

Char(s) - Character(s)

Civ - Civilian

CM - Countermeasures

Coded weapons - Usually very strong or otherwise special weapons which can only be looted from the permanent wrecks or bought from player weapon traders. Also: "Codies", "Codenames".

D

Dessie - Destroyer

Disco - Discovery Mod

Disco forums - The official community forum to the Discovery Mod, found at discoverygc.com.

E

EK - Engine Kill. A method used to preserve the kinetic energy to mimic Newtonian law. That means that the ship will continue to fly on it's vector (i.e. direction) when engine was killed.

F

F1 - Deliberate disconnecting from the server to avoid being pirated, shot or otherwise avoiding RP responsibilities. Against the Discovery server rules.

FAM - Freelancer Account Manager, a program made by Korrd to save and import/export accounts. FAM makes easy to have shared ships trhough shared accounts for clans.

Farming - Orbiting low level enemy base/planet, killing weak NPC ships and collecting pilots. It's frowned down upon.

FL - Freelancer (the game)

form, FU - Short for "Enter formation" or "Form Up"

formed, FUD - Short for "I have entered formation" or "Formed Up"

FP - Freeport

FR/Fr - Freighter

G

GB - Gunboat

GC - Golden Chrysanthemums

Gottkanzler - God-Chancellor, the way Rheinland citizens refer to the Chancellor of Rheinland (see KDGA)

GS - Gunship

H

HF - Heavy fighter

HIKMS - His Imperial Kusari Majesty's Ship, e.g. Kusari Battleship

HMS - His/Her Majesty's Ship. Used in Bretonia to denote ships belonging to the navy, e.g. Bretonia Battleship

I

IC - Short for "in character". See also OOC. Also can stand for Interspace Commerce faction.

ID - Identification card. Identifies player's inclination/faction.

IFF - Indentify Friend or Foe, i.e. one's tag and reputation.

Indie(s), Independent(s) - Players who carry out acts according to a role they play without belonging to a official faction, i.e. carrying a "Police" ID and scanning for contraband without being member of one of the Player Factions.

Ion storm - Term used to describe server crashing and rebooting.

J

JG - Jump gate connecting two systems.

JH - Jump hole connecting two systems.

Jousting - Head to head firefight. Usually ships move in more-less straight line towards each other shooting with all guns. They turn after each pass and repeat.

K

KDGA - Kirche der Gruenen Adler, translates to Church of the Green Eagle. Rheinland state religion, worships the Chancellor as a god.

KNF - Kusari Naval Forces (player faction)

KoS - Kill on sight

Kriegsmarine - German name for the Rheinland Navy.

L

LF - Light fighter

LH - Lane Hackers Computer nuts, these fellas will hack just about anything.

LNS - Liberty Navy Ship, e.g. Liberty Dreadnought

LNT - Liberty Navy Transport, e.g. Armored Transport

LPI - Liberty Police Incorporated A group of donut munching nutcases. Detectives are dangerous though.

LR - Liberty Rogues Equivalent to the LPI in ineptitude, only unlawful

M

MNS - Maltese (i.e. Outcast) Navy Ship. E.g. Outcast Battleship

N

NB, nanos - Nanobots, items used to repair hull damage. Can also mean the New Berlin System

NL - New London System

NPC - Non Player Character, i.e. a ship controlled by the game's AI.

NT - New Tokyo System

NY - New York System

O

OC - Outcast Drug addicted pirate nutsos. Known to fly a really dangerous ship, the Sabre.

OOC - Out Of Character. Expressing oneself in a manner not suitable for roleplay on the server. Should be avoided if not necessary. The commonly used notation for something which is OOC is "//" (//Please do not reengage). OORP, Out Of RolePlay, is also a term used for this.

OORP - out of role play. See RP.

P

PC - Player Character, i.e. your or another player's ship.

Powergaming generally means a person's main focus is making their character (ship) as powerful as possible. Because that is their main focus the persons "role play" suffers, is non-existent, or only exists to rationalize why they think they are so uber-super-hella-awesome.

PvP - Player versus player combat.

Q

QCRF - Queen Carina's Royal Fleet. Bretonian player created faction.

QCO - Queen Carina's Own. Bretonian player created faction.

QCR - Queen Carina's Regulars. Bretonian player created faction.

QCP - Queen Carina's Privateers. Bretonian player created faction.

R

RAB - Revolutionary Army Bomber... A bomber belonging to the SCRA Coalition Player Faction. Not Xenos!

RACS - Revolutionary Army Capital Ship

RAGB - Revolutionary Army Gunboat

RAHF - Revolutionary Army Heavy Fighter

RAI - Revolutionary Army Intelligence

RALF - Revolutionary Army Light Fighter

RAPS - Revolutionary Army Prison Ship

RATV - Revolutionary Army Transport Vessel

RC - Raven Claw. Advanced VHF.

Red Cat - Red Catamaran Blood Dragon Bomber

Rep - Reputation. Indicates the attitude towards the other factions. Scales from hostile to neutral to friendly.

Rep fixing - Changing oneself's reputation toward a NPC faction to fit one's character concept or to get a certain tag.

RH - Rheinland

RHA - Red Hessian Army. player created faction.

RNC - Rheinland Navy Cruiser or Rheinland Navy Capital ships, e.g. Rheinland Battleship. This is the game tag for Rheinland Military caps. Used by both indies and the RM.

RP - Roleplay. Acting and conducting oneself in a manner that fits the player's current status and his factions modus operandi.

RT - Raven's Talon "Elite" VHF

Run Trade run from point A to point B and back.

S

Shield camping - trying to dodge when you lose shields in a battle so you don't lose your hull. Once you get your shield back, you continue with the attack. It is considered 'unfair' by some, but is in fact a legal and commonly used strategy.

Shieldrunning - Shieldrunning is when a ship cruises away to recharge shields, then reengages with his shield and hull at full strength. Against the Discovery server rules.

SHF - Super heavy fighter

SP - Freelancer's Single Player mode

Speed docking - Cruising or thrusting very close (usually 100m or so) to trade lane ring, docking ring or station hangars and pressing F3 which initiates the docking cut-scene (you are immune to fire if you are docking a planet or station). Some consider it oorp since it leaves very little time scan the cargo for example for lawfuls to scan the ship for contraband.

Screen, SS - Screenshot

T

Tag - prefix or affix used to indicate player's NPC faction. See also: "Clan Tag".

The Angels - Discovery Angels Organization, a player created faction helping new players and Veterans alike. Can usually be found in New York system, and are expanding to cover all of the major houses.

TL - Trade lane

TR, Tr - Transport

U

UOG - Union of Gold. player created faction.

V

VF - Volksfront player created faction (Bundschuh)

VHF - Very heavy fighter

Z

ZOI - Zone Of Interest (also known as Zone of Influence, Area of Interest/Influence) A collection of systems where a faction's presence is acceptable in their normal role play.