Glossary

This page contains a list of slang and acronyms commonly used by the Discovery community. Other terms associated with player Official Factions are listed in a separate table below.

Glossary terms

Glossary Table

Term	Type	Description
AGS	Lore	After Gallic Settlement - alternate dating scheme, the arrival of the Sleeper Ship Gallia is year 0.
AI	Faction	Gammu Artificial Intelligence
ALG	Faction	ALG Waste Disposal - meaning of 'ALG' is unknown.
Aqui	Ship	Zoner "Aquilon" carrier
AS	Lore	After Settlement, the arrival of the Sleeper Ship Liberty is year 0.
ASF	Faction	Alaska Security Forces (non-playable)
BAE	Faction	Bretonia Archaeological Executive (non-playable)
BAF	Faction	Bretonia Armed Forces
Bats	Mechanic	Shield Batteries
BBs	Mechanic	(Nano)Bots and (Shield) Batteries
BC	Mechanic	Battlecruiser
BD	Faction	Blood Dragons
BH / BHG / Hunter	Faction	Bounty Hunters Guild
BIS	Faction	Bretonia Intelligence Service
Blindfire	Mechanic	A key toggle to remove auto-snap to your crosshair. Useful for capital ships.
bmb	Mechanic	Bombers
BMM	Faction	Bretonia Mining & Manufacturing
BMMs	Lore	Black Market Munitions, contraband produced in Rheinland.
BMPs	Lore	Black Market Pharmaceuticals, contraband produced in Liberty.
Bots	Mechanic	Nanobots
Bowex	Faction	Border World Exports
BPA	Faction	Bretonia Police Authority
Brick	Ship	Rheinland "Elbe" carrier
BS	Mechanic	Battleship
Bundie(s)	Faction	Bundschuh
Cap / capship	Mechanic	Capital ship. Commonly refers to Gunboats, Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships.
Cardi	Lore	Cardamine, a drug produced by the Outcasts.
CD	Mechanic	Cruise Disruptor
Char(s)	Mechanic	Character(s) / ships you create on the server.
Civ / Civvie	Mechanic	Civilian, i.e. generic, open-use technology or ships.
CLD	Mechanic	Cloak Disruptor. Produced on Player Owned Bases, reveals cloaked ships at range.
Cloak	Mechanic	Cloaking Device. Produced on Player Owned Bases, allows temporary invisibility.
CM	Mechanic	Countermeasure
CODEs	Mechanic	Prototype guns / equipment that are dropped from wrecks / Encounters, or manufactured on Player Owned Bases.
Contraband	Mechanic	Goods that have been outlawed by lawful factions.
CR	Faction	Crayter Republic
CR	Mechanic	Cruiser
CTD	Meta	Crash to Desktop - a fatal game crash.
Dessie / Dest	Mechanic	Destroyer, a name for Cruisers
DHC	Faction	Daumann Heavy Construction
Disco	Meta	Discovery, mod or community.
DM	Mechanic	Docking Module, produced on Player Owned Bases; allows snubs to dock on player capital ships.
DSE	Faction	Deep Space Engineering
Duk	Ship	Nomad "Marduk" battleship
D-16	Faction	Detachment 16 (non-playable)
EFL	Faction	EFL Oil & Machinery - meaning of 'EFL' is unknown.
EK	Mechanic	Engine Kill, a way to turn while maintaining your vector (direction of travel).
Encounters	Mechanic	NPC "boss" encounters that are hand placed in specific locations, often involving fleets of ships. These have a chance to drop rare equipment or production blueprints.
ERP	Meta	Literally "Erotic Roleplay", but generally not used in that context. Often used as a joke to refer to extremely long, peaceful roleplay encounters.
FA	Faction	Farmers Alliance
Farming	Meta	Killing NPCs, especially at Encounters for CODE loot.
FL	Faction	Freelancer, can be used to refer to the in-game faction, or the game itself.
Forum	Meta	www.discoverygc.com, the central Discovery forum where discussion and roleplay happens.
FR1	Meta	Faction Right 1 - allows Official Factions to issue appropriate orders to independent players of the NPC faction they represent.
FR3	Meta	Faction Right 3 - allows Official Factions to request a player be set hostile to the NPC faction they represent.
F1	Meta	Disconnecting from the game while in space, i.e. using the F1 menu. Against the rules if done during a player encounter.
F2	Mechanic	Auto-steers your ship directly to the selected object or waypoint.
F3	Mechanic	Docks your ship with an object or station if it is within range.
Gank(ing)	Meta	Creating an extremely unfair fight where your opponent has no option but to die. Can be through excessive numbers, extreme skill disparity, etc. This kind of extreme lack of fair play is against server rules.
GB	Mechanic	Gunboat / gunship
GC	Faction	Golden Chrysanthemums
GMG	Faction	Gas Miners Guild
GMS	Faction	Gallic Metal Service
GN	Faction	Gallic Navy
GRN	Faction	Gallic Royal Navy, since replaced by the Gallic Navy.
GRP	Faction	Gallic Royal Police, since replaced by the Gallic Gendarmerie.
Hege / Hegemonster	Mechanic	Hegemon Heavy Mining Ship.
HF	Mechanic	Heavy Fighter
HF	Faction	Hellfire Legion, absorbed into the now-destroyed Liberty Insurgency.
HM / HT	Mechanic	Heavy Mortar / Heavy Trebuchet; Sirian and Gallic variants of capital ship artillery weapons.
HRC	Mechanic	High Risk Commodity. These are commodities with a higher base price, with their rate of profit scaling more aggressively with distance than other commodities. Includes commodities that need to be refined on Player Owned Bases and contraband.
IC	Faction	Interspace Commerce
ID	Mechanic	Identification Card. Mounted on your ship in the Internal Equipment tab, this sets out the faction you belong to, what you can do, and which ship classes you can fly.
IDF	System	Ile-de-France, capital system of Gallia.
IDF	Faction	IDF Shipping
IFF	Mechanic	Identify Friend / Foe. When you max your reputation with a faction, it will begin flashing yellow on your rep sheet, and display in front of your name. Other players will see you as friendly / neutral / hostile based on their rep with your IFF faction.
Indie(s)	Meta	Players of an NPC faction who are not a member of the corresponding Official Faction.
Infectee	Lore	Term used to describe humans who have been infested with a Nomad Incubus parasite, or been indoctrinated by the Nomads into becoming a subservient Thrall.
Ion Storm	Meta	Roleplay term used to explain server crashes, daily restarts or particularly heavy lag.
IS	Faction	Imperial Shipping, previously Republican Shipping.
Jellies	Meta	Slang for Nomad, derived from another nickname, "Squids".
JD	Mechanic	Jump Drive, produced on Player Owned Bases; mounted on capital ships, allowing them to jump between systems.
JG	Mechanic	Jump Gate
JH	Mechanic	Jump Hole
JM	Mechanic	Jump Matrix, produced on Player Owned Bases; allows Jump Drives to lock onto your exact location.
Jousting	Mechanic	PvP style where ships charge one another head-on, turn, and repeat.
Jugg / Juggernaut	Ship	Nickname for the Zoner "Nephilim" Colony Ship, based on its original name in earlier mod versions.
LABC	Ship	Liberty Assault Battlecruiser
LAC	Ship	Liberty "Atlantis" Carrier
Launcher	Meta	Discovery's account manager and patch updater. You launch your game through it.
LM / LT	Mechanic	Light Mortar / Light Trebuchet; Sirian and Gallic variants of capital ship artillery weapons.
LSC	Ship	Liberty Siege Cruiser
Kirk	Ship	Bretonia "Dunkirk" battleship.
KNF	Faction	Kusari Naval Forces
KOI	Faction	Kusari Office of Intelligence
KSP	Faction	Kusari State Police
LF	Mechanic	Light Fighter
LH	Faction	Lane Hackers
LN	Faction	Liberty Navy
LPI	Faction	Liberty Police, Inc.
LR	Faction	Liberty Rogues
LSF	Faction	Liberty Security Force
LWB	Faction	Landwirtrechtbewegung
Metagaming	Meta	Using information within roleplay that your character should not have access to. For example, basing roleplay decisions on information read on the forums or Discord. Considered Out of Character behaviour and against the rules.
MND	Faction	Marinenachrichtendienst
MR	Mechanic	Mini Razor, a heavy snub weapon, primarily used against other snubs.
NB	System	New Berlin, capital of Rheinland.
Neph	Ship	Zoner "Nephilim" Colony Ship
NFZ	Lore	No-Fire Zone, neutral areas established around stations by groups such as the Zoners.
NL	System	New London, capital of Bretonia.
Noms	Meta	Slang for Nomad
NT	System	New Tokyo, capital of Kusari.
NuMining	Mechanic	A mining system that involves shooting components off large asteroids to access ore nodes within.
NY	System	New York, capital of Liberty
NPC	Mechanic	Non-Player Character. Ships controlled by the game AI, or developers / Storytellers.
OC	Faction	Outcasts.
OOC	Meta	Out of Character. OOC text should be avoided while playing on the game server or roleplay areas of the forum, unless strictly necessary. OOC messages can be indicated by typing // before your chat message.
OF	Meta	Official Faction. These are player groups that have applied to the server administrators for the right to represent an NPC faction and / or receive additional perks.
Old Mining	Mechanic	A mining system that involves shooting small floating rocks to gather ore.
OORP	Meta	Out of Roleplay. See above.
OSC / OS&C	Faction	Orbital Spa & Cruise
Ossie	Ship	Order "Osiris" battleship
O3/5/41 etc	System	Omega-#, region system designation.
PC	Meta	Player Character
Perishable	Mechanic	Cargo that degrades over time.
Perma	Meta	A permanent server ban, imposed by server administrators for severe rule breaks. Indefinite, but often appealable after 6 months.
PFI	Faction	Planetform, Inc.
Pirate	Meta	Players who attempt to steal credits or cargo from other players, usually attacking trade ships.
POB	Mechanic	Player Owned Base, deployable stations operated by players. They can buy and sell goods, refine commodities, and produce ships or equipment.
POBoid	Meta	Derogatory slang for players who do not interact with other players, or provide minimal roleplay, to exclusively focus on building or maintaining Player Owned Bases.
Powergaming	Meta	Roleplaying another person's character without their consent, particularly when attempting to obtain some form of benefit or advantage. Against server rules.
Powertrading	Meta	Slang for traders who do not interact with other players, or provide minimal roleplay, to exclusively focus on making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.
PR	Meta	Player Request. A ticket submitted to server administrators in the Player Requests subforum to resolve an issue or request a service.
Prims	Mechanic	Primary weapons - a class of turret mounted on capital ships.
PvE	Meta	Player versus Environment, usually fighting NPCs. See Encounters.
PvP	Meta	Player versus Player combat
Quickdock	Meta	Instantly docking on a station / Trade Lane / Jump Gate without triggering the docking animation. Glowing blue orbs mark quickdock points on stations.
Regens	Mechanic	Shield Batteries and Nanobots.
Rep	Mechanic	Reputation. The attitude of NPC factions towards you. Maxing your rep with a faction will set it to your IFF.
Rephack	Mechanic	The ID you have mounted will automatically adjust and lock your rep with certain factions. This normally keeps your faction's enemies hostile, while boosting your faction to full rep to lock in its IFF.
RFP	Faction	Rheinland Federal Police, formerly Rheinland Imperial Police.
RH	Faction	Red Hessians
Rh	Faction	Rheinland
RM	Faction	Rheinland Military
Roleplay / RP	Meta	Acting and talking as if you were the character you are playing.
Run	Meta	Trade Run - a circuit or A-B-A route carrying cargo to make money.
Sanction	Meta	A punishment imposed by server administrators for breaking the server rules.
SHF	Mechanic	Super Heavy Fighter
Shrimp(s)	Ship	Bretonian capital ships
Sirian	Lore	A non-Gallic resident of Sirius. Generally used by Gallic residents to define outsiders.
SNAC	Mechanic	Supernova Antimatter Cannon. A heavy anti-capital snub weapon.
Snub	Mechanic	Light fighters, heavy fighters, very heavy fighters, super heavy fighters, and bombers.
SP	Mechanic	Single Player - Discovery does not have a single player campaign, so this mode is only intended as a testing sandbox.
SRP	Meta	Special Roleplay Request. A formal request that can be submitted to the server administrators to allow unusual ship / equipment / ID combinations that would not normally function. Used to further character roleplay that would not otherwise be mechanically possible.
Squids	Meta	Slang for Nomads.
S13/15/17 etc	System	Sigma-#, region system designation.
Tag	Meta	A part of a character's name that indicates membership of a group / faction. For example, [RM] is used by the Rheinland Military official faction.
TL	Mechanic	Trade Lane
Toaster	Meta	Slang for Gammu AI.
Toku	Ship	Kusari "Tokugawa" battleship.
Torp	Mechanic	Torpedo, often mounted on bombers or capital ships.
Turtle / Tortoise	Ship	Rheinland "Bismarck" battleship.
TS	Mechanic	Turret Steer. Allows ships to manoeuvre using keybinds while in turret mode, rather than relying on mouse flight. Particularly useful for capital ships and transports.
T23/29/31 etc	System	Tau-#, region system designation.
UC	Faction	Unione Corse
UN	Faction	Unioners
US	Faction	Universal Shipping
VHF	Mechanic	Very Heavy Fighter
VR	Meta	Violation Report. Used to report rule breaks to server administrators in the violation reports subforum.
ZOI	Mechanic	Zone of Influence. A list of systems on your ID where you are allowed to carry out additional actions. IDs with no ZOI listed are considered to have ZOI everywhere.

Ship Prefixes

Ship prefixes are commonly applied to transport or capital ships.

Tag	Faction	Description
ALG-	ALG	???
ATS-	Ageira	Ageira Technologies Ship
BCV-	Bristol	Bristol Construction Vessel
BES-	Bowex	Borderworld Exports Ship.
BHS-	BHG	Bounty Hunter Ship.
BPU-	BPA	Bretonia Police Unit.
CFV	Crayter	Crayter Fighting Vessel
CNS-	Corsairs	Corsair Navy Ship.
CPS	Cryer	Cryer Pharmaceuticals Ship
CPW-	Coalition	Coalition Peoples' Warship.
DHC	DHC
DSE	DSE
GMG	GMG
GNS-	Gallia	Gallic Naval Ship.
GS	Gaians	Gaian Ship
GWS	Gateway	Gateway Ship
HMS-	Bretonia	Her Majesty's Ship.
IDFS	IDF	IDF Ship
IFV	Freelancers	Independent Freelance Vessel
IKN-	Kusari	Imperial Kusari Navy
IMG	IMG
ISS	Imperial	Imperial Shipping Ship
KMS	Kruger	Kruger Minerals Ship
KPU	KSP	Kusari Police Unit
KTS	Kishiro	Kishiro Technologies Ship
LHS	Hackers	Lane Hacker Ship
LNS-	Liberty	Liberty Navy Ship.
LPU	LPI	Liberty Police Unit
LRS	LR	Liberty Rogue Ship
MNS	Outcasts	Maltese Navy Ship
MRS	Mollys	Molly Republic Ship
MSV	GMS	Metal Service Vessel
RNC-	Rheinland	Rheinland Navy Capital
OCV	Order	Order Capital Vessel
OMS	EFL	Oil & Machinery Ship
OSC	OS&C
PFS	PFI	Planetform Ship
RHS	Hessians	Red Hessian Ship
RNC	Rheinland	Rheinland Navy Capital
RNS	Royalists	Royal Naval Ship
RPU	RFP	Rheinland Police Unit
SFS	Synth	Synth Foods Ship
SIS	Samura	Samura Industries Ship
UCV	Corse	Unione Corse Vessel
WV	Core	War Vessel
ZS	Zoners	Zoner Ship