Armchair Admiral's Acronym Almanac.

Glossary of acronyms and general lingo used by Spacers in shipyards and battlespaces alike.

About Missiles

Missile Bodies:

• Size 3 hybrid: S3H, SGM-H3, Atlatl (less common)
  
• Size 2 hybrid: S2H, SGM-H2, Cyclone (less common)
  
• Size 2 missile: S2, Tempest (less common)
  
• Size 3 Torpedo: S3T, S3, Torp, Mace
  
• Size 4 Container missile: Container, Box
  
• Size 1 missile: S1, Riposte (specific)
  
• AMM: Anti Missile Missile

Missile Seekers:

• Command Seeker: command, CMD, coms seeker (not common)
  
• Active radar Seeker: Act, AR (not common), ARS(not common), radar/radar guided
  
• Steerable active radar Seeker: Sact/s-act, SAR
  
• Steerable extended Active radar Seeker: EACT, SEACT, SEAR/SEARs
  
• Semi active seeker: SAH, semi,
  
• Anti radiation seeker: ARAD
  
• Anti radiation seeker set to JAMMING: HOJ
  
• Electro Optical Seeker: EO
  
• Wake homing seeker: Wake, fart sniffer

Missile Penetration Aids (Pen aids, PAs):

• Decoy dispenser module: D/-D (usually after a seeker/seeker combination)
  
• Clusterdecoy: why the ♥♥♥♥ would you?
  
• Hardened skin: N/A, HS (not common)
  
• Cold gas bottle: CGB
  
• Absorbent radar coating: N/A, ARC (not common)
  
• Self screening jammer: SSJ
  
• Boosted self screening jammer: BSSJ
  
• High explosive shaped charge warhead: HEI
  
• High explosive Kinetic penetrator Warhead: HEKP
  
• High explosive blast fragmentation warhead: Blast frag, frag
  
• High explosive blast fragmentation enhanced lethality warhead: EL, Blastfrag EL

Specific Missiles / Seeker combinations

• SAK: originally a specific missile build, now refers to a cheap S3H equipped with cruise guidance, weaving terminal maneuvers, guided by an Anti radiation primary seeker and an extended Active radar secondary seeker (ARAD/SEAR) - (ARAD/EACT).
  
• WAK: originally a specific missile build, now refers to a cheap S3H equipped with cruise guidance, weaving terminal maneuvers, guided by a steerable extended Active radar primary seeker and a Wake validator. (SEAR/[WAKE]) - (EACT/[WAKE])
  
• Thunderhead: an active radar guided cruise missile (act) - (RADAR)
  
• Gale: a Semi active guided direct fire missile (SAH - RADAR)
  
• Squall: an anti radiation, home on jam direct fire missile (ARAD - JAMMING)
  
• Squale: (squall + gale) a missile using an Anti radiation, home on jam primary seeker, with a backup Semi active homing seeker. (ARAD - JAMMING/ SAH - RADAR) (HOJ/SAH)
  
• Hurricane: a command guided direct fire missile (CMD)
  
• Mace: a command guided, direct fire torpedo (CMD)
  
• Riposte: a command guided, direct fire anti missile missile, equiped with a fragmentation warhead (CMD)
  
• Killjoy: (knows as KJs) Size 2 anti missile missile (seeker: none), it uses a self screening jammer module to lure away missiles using ARAD(RADAR) and ARAD(HOJ).

About Ships

Ship Hulls:

• FFL: Sprinter class Corvette
  
• Clipper (subclass): Ferryman class Shuttle, Draugr class Tugboat
  
• ‌FF: Raines class Frigate [FFG:missile Carrier Frigate] [FFE: Escort frigate]
  
• ‌DD: Keystone class Destroyer [DDG: Missile carrier Destroyer] [DDE: Escort Destroyer]
  
• ‌CL: Vauxhall class Light Cruiser
  
• ‌CC: Ocello class Command Cruiser
  
• ‌CH: Axford class Heavy Cruiser
  
• ‌BB: Solomon class Battleship
  
• ‌LN: Marauder class Bulk Freighter: [MDLN (Mass driver LN); PLN (Plasma LN)]
  
• ‌CLN: Moorline class Container Liner
  
• ‌MN: Flathead class Cargo Feeder

Hull Configurations

• Railstone: Railgun equipped DD
  
• Beamstone: Beam equipped DD
  
• Beamford: Beam equipped CH
  
• Surrender CL/CH: “i call it a surrender CL because it shoots all its missiles then surrenders and finds another lobby”
  
• Revolver: A lineship class bulk freighter that rotates to expose freshly reloaded guns
  
• triple threat: A lineship equipped with plasma, 250mm, 100mm armaments
  
• obelisk: a liner that engages both broadsides at the same time using turreted armament
  
• MMT: (Multi Mission Tug) Tugboat fitted with a jammer, Huntress radar, MLS-2, c30, locks and PD, excellent tool to contest sensor networks and defend objectives from light assets.

Fleet Archetypes:

• DAD: Fleet that aims at retention of control points and filling in holes in the team composition
  
• Cap Fleet: Fleet that aims at the capture of control points
  
• Throw Fleet: A bad fleet, that could potentially ruin the game for the team
  
• Yub Nub: now commonly synonymical with a missile spam fleet
  
• Anchor fleet: usually an hard to destroy target, serves as the centerpiece around which the team rotates
  
• Forehead fleet: a fleet built to charge head first into the enemy

About Components

Modules

• Ammunition Elevators: AE
  
• Rapid-cycle Cradles: RCC
  
• Energy Regulators: Ereg
  
• Small Energy regulator: sEreg (not common)
  
• Focused Particle Accelerator: FPA
  
• Track Correlator: TC
  
• Adaptive Radar Receiver: ARR
  
• Actively Cooled Amplifiers: ACA
  
• Mount Gyros: Gyros
  
• Missile Programming Bus/Array: Bus/ Bus Array

Compartments

• Basic CIC: Basic
  
• Reinforced CIC: Rcic
  
• Auxiliary steering: Aux; Auxsteer
  
• Analysis Annex: Annex
  
• Gun Plotting Center: GPC
  
• Plant Control Center: PCC
  
• Reinforced Magazine: R-mag
  
• Bulk magazine: Bulkmag
  
• Rapid DC Locker: Rapid
  
• Small DC locker: SDC
  
• Large DC locker: LDC
  
• Reinforced DC locker: RDC
  
• Damage control central: DCC
  
• Small workshop: SW
  
• Strike planning center: SPC
  
• Intelligence center: Intel, IC
  
• Battle dressing station: The useless compartment
  
• Damage control complex: DCX
  
• Citadel Magazine: Cmag, Xmag

[top10racer]

@nilstryfe a "pitboss" is a CH acting in the role of a fat vauxhall. the ultimate fuck you to anything smaller than it due to its large array of small guns with proximity fused ammo, but ultimately relatively vulnerable to anything its own size due to a lack of robust defenses.

its used to guard caps and bully smaller assets so the frontline can do frontline things instead of worrying about the small fry.

two similar OSP designs, the "miniboss" and the "plankboss", are an ocello and monitor respectively with the same role and design (lots of small guns to overwhelm small capping assets, but generally ill suited to taking on things their own size)

[nilstryfe]

excuse me, but what is a pitboss cruiser?

[Adriser]

Maybe add Trogs ands Yub, middie on OSP just watched 2 golds talk about MN fleets and got very confused

[HEAVEN BASED]

@LilEndian EMCON is Emission Control, i did not include it here because it's not as obscure and not a community term. Emission Control in nebulous means turning off all emitters (Radars, Radar jammers ecc.), you can go EMCON manually or by clicking the EMCON button in the bottom right of the radial menu.

[Jraamus]

@LilEndian EMissions CONtrol

[LilEndian]

okay but wtf is ENCOM

[Dragonion]

I'd personally say that a secondary name for DC lockers would be just being Rapid, Small, Large, Reinforced. I have never used 'prefix type - DC' for lockers.

[Mathblob]

very based 10/10

[HEAVEN BASED]

Credit to Smolcake for the thumbnail <3