Roleplaying Aid: Explorer's Lexicon

00prometheus

00prometheus
A few missing terms that we often use in practice:

Honk: for firing the ADS
Buckyballing: Travelling as fast as possible to cover vast distances quickly. Usually without scanning any bodies, just using the ADS (though real Buckyballers usually have no ADS, explorers do and it can be done while the FSD is charging up). Slightly derogatory since it doesn't allow you to tag anything and doesn't really count as exploration, but often used to get to a goal region where real exploration is to take place.
Honk & Jump: Explorer style buckyballing (real Buckyballers don't even have an ADS).
Honk, Jump and Scoop: A special version of fast travel where the explorer scoops a little at full speed at each star to avoid needing to stop to scoop. Requires significant skill.
Exploraconda: An Anaconda specially outfitted for exploration and long jump range.
Conda: Anaconda, one of the two main exploration ships (the other one being the Asp Explorer).
<shiptype> with teeth: As in "He is flying a Conda with teeth", an exploration ship with weapons. Often explorers fly without weapons to maximize jump range, so an exploration ship with weapons is specifically termed.
 
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00prometheus

00prometheus
Oh, and "Zen jumping" for the special state of mind where you are able to go through the motions of travelling without being really concious of it happening. In this state of mind you can eat up many kylies almost without noticing.
 
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mossfoot

mossfoot
Honk had sort of already existed as a variant of "Sounding the Spacehorn" but Honk has clearly become the preferred short form, so I renamed. Things like Honk & Jump (and scoop) aren't really slang terms, just building off existing terms.

Added Buckyballing, Exploraconda, "With Teeth" and Zen Jumping. Thanks! :D
 

00prometheus

00prometheus
Sitting around chatting to a few CMDRs on a planet 60 kylies from Sol, I noticed a couple of core greetings we use:

o7: The salute emoticon, given to CMDRs as greeting or sign of respect.
O/: The wave emoticon, because I am a freelancer, not military!

oh, and that takes me to:

CMDR: A gender neutral reference to an Elite Dangerous in-game persona, as in "We were more than a hundred CMDRs at Sag A!"
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
00prometheus said:
Sitting around chatting to a few CMDRs on a planet 60 kylies from Sol, I noticed a couple of core greetings we use:

o7: The salute emoticon, given to CMDRs as greeting or sign of respect.
O/: The wave emoticon, because I am a freelancer, not military!

oh, and that takes me to:

CMDR: A gender neutral reference to an Elite Dangerous in-game persona, as in "We were more than a hundred CMDRs at Sag A!"
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Well, those are pretty common among everyone, not just explorers ;)

(also, trying to avoid emoticons, these should be "spoken" slang, so to speak)
 

00prometheus

00prometheus
Others that explorers use a lot are the compass directions:

Rotate the galaxy so that Sol is directly below the galactic core, (the default orientation of the galactic map). Then North is up, South is down, East is right and West is left. Up is above the galactic plane, and Down is below the galactic plane.

Regarding the emoticons: Maybe they are common to others than explorers, but they aren't that common outside ED, so they do need explaining.
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
The problem with North, East, South, and West is that it doesn't really work on a spinning disk. Even if you used the core as "north", east and west get turned around every time you flip your ship.

That's why I used "Coreward" and "Rimward" denoting going closer or farther away from the center, and "Turnwise/Widdershins" (or "Spinward/Tracking") using the galaxy rotation to determine horizontal direction.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
00prometheus said:
<shiptype> with teeth: As in "He is flying a Conda with teeth", an exploration ship with weapons. Often explorers fly without weapons to maximize jump range, so an exploration ship with weapons is specifically termed.
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I also use the term 'tooled', 'tooled-up' or 'fully tooled' to describe any ship that's weaponised, especially one that's over-doing it a bit.
 
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