Fleet Terminology: Difference between revisions

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

Feminic and Masculic: terms for ships that have all male or all female crew.
Hitch: is a tractor beam
Scales: nickname for body armor
Moths: any contact not yet assigned an ID^[1]
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.^[2]
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)^[3]

Names for things used by Fleet personnel.

Stuff like 'moths' for unidentified contacts, and the T&S List (Threats and Suspicious).

Also organizational and factional slang, like the 'pony saddles.' And 'The Old and Proud.'

Slang like 'gone ground' for someone who's turned native, or fled to a planet.

"Star-and-pierced" for graduated from Fleet Academe (I presume, anyway)^[4]

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 * Scales: nickname for body armor
 * Moths: any contact not yet assigned an ID<ref name="wiw-ch4">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', chapter 4</ref>
+* 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.<ref name="wiw-ch01">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', chapter 1</ref>
+* 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]])<ref name="wiw-ch06">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', chapter 6</ref>
 Names for things used by Fleet personnel.