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)

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)