Fleet Terminology

This page should be linked under languages, since it's jargon.

• Feminic and Masculic: terms for ships that have (respectively) all female or all male crew.
• furlong: the delta between theory and practice. "Don't trip on that furlong."
• Hitch: is a tractor beam
• MOB: "Man Overboard" (usually as "going mob"). Slang is 'joining the Dutchman."
• Moths: any contact not yet assigned an ID
• Old and Proud: humans who are proud of their heritage and origins (and often also disaffected and bitter about their place relative to the Pelted in Fleet and the Alliance)
• Pony saddle: not precisely a Fleet term, but the term that the Terran Space Navy uses for the to-them-strange system of officer commissions in Fleet.
• Scales: nickname for body armor
• "Star-and-pierced:" Someone who has graduated from Fleet Academe (I presume, anyway)

I'm also going to stick specific roles (roles, as opposed to ranks) here for lack of a significantly better place to put them; they can become their own page or go on another place or something eventually:

• New Officer Training Coordinator (NOTC): The officer on a ship who is responsible for training and orientation for newly-assigned officers.
• Liason: As in, "liaison to the aliens." The officer who is responsible for communication and coordination with allied aliens onboard, such as Flitzbe and Platies.

Names for things used by Fleet personnel.

The T&S List (Threats and Suspicious).

Groups

• The Old and Proud: the human enlisted who are resentful of the Pelted and them trying to be so powerful
• Baton-chasers: after the Napoleon quote about the baton ("Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.") Because they're chasing these "fake" ranks in the Pelted Fleet, rather than coming up the hard way in the Navy.

Slang

• 'gone ground' for someone who's turned native, or fled to a planet.
• 'kissed her, dismissed her, and didn't even miss her' (belowdecks ribbing)