Fleet Terminology

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
• 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.
• 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)
• "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).

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)