SpecForce Jargon and Slang
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A
- Accountant
- Someone who insists on telling you the odds
- Acquisition Run
- Any combat operation presenting opportunities for large-scale theft.
- Alarm Clock
- Satchel Charge (see wake up call).
- Amphibians
- Aquatic Wilderness Fighters. Often literally correct as amphibian specied like Mon Calamari and Quarren make up a significant persentage of these units.
B
- Bait
- 1. Small Marine Food.
- 2. Mon Calamari Cuisine.
- 3. A lone operative.
- Bank
- A target with no worth what so ever.
- Bantha Pudu
- Slang, offensive insult, meaning large dung pile of a Bantha.
- Bar
- The place you go to get your Lum.
- Barmaid
- 1. A female you flirt with.
- 2. A person that will bring you a Drink.
- Bartender
- A person that gives you a Drink.
- Bee
- 1. Small insect with irritating but nonlethal sting.
- 2. Imperial T.I.E. fighter.
- Bee-Hive
- Imperial T.I.E. base or carrier.
- Black
- Any large denomination (1K + credits) that is probably "blackmarked" and traceable.
- Blackhats
- Imperial Storm Commandos.
- Blaster Magnet
- Euphemism for an Imperial Officer.
- BMR
- Blind Man's Run, a Mission for amateurs and greenhorns.
- Boomer
- Demolitions Expert.
- Boring
- 1. Extremely dangerous.
- 2. No threat at all.
- 3. Extremely dangerous however no threat ar all.
- Boys in White
- Stormtroopers.
- Brass Mine
- A Special Operative.
- BUG
- (Big Ugly Guy) and hostile alien.
- BUG Spray
- An ISW.
- Bursting
- Physical: Dealing with a large predator by waiting until it opens its mouth and then feeding it a live grenade or thermal. Conceptual: Entering a known enemy trap with much more firepower than the trap can handle, or using an enemies offensive action as an opportunity to do him harm.
C
- Can't
- Tank, deliberate misspelling.
- Carbonite
- Really big mess up.
- Carpet
- A Less Boring Fuzzball
- Chicken
- Any Imperial operation or personnel.
- Chilly
- Refers to a troope's ability to maintain calm under fire.
- Chorus Girl
- Imperial AT-ST Walker.
- Chorus Line
- An Incoming Imperial Mechanized Assault Force.
- Cold
- Refers to a troope's ability to maintain calm under fire.
- Commando
- Generic term for SpecForce troopers, normally used by non-Specs
- Condor
- Bounty Hunter
- Cool Drop
- An insertion, typically by para-sail or paraglider, into a relatively safe area.
- Coop
- A Lot of Chickens huddled together, a Chickens Base.
- Counter
- Where You stash your Lum. A safe house, or hide out.
- Cross-Dressing
- Posing as an imperial agent.
- Cuddly
- Incredibly Dangerous.
- Cute
- Extremely Dangerous.
D
- Defenestrate
- To throw a person out of the window. Defenestrated would indicate the past tense.
- Difficult
- Easy
- Drink
- Unrecovered Orphan.
- Drop
- Landing via para-sail. Dropped troops typically land in a pre-selected drop zone or DZ.
- Drop Zone
- A pre-selected area where troops are deployed, or dropped.
- Duck
- Any undercover Imperial operative that is trying not to look like an undercover Imperial operative.
- Dumb
- Someone that has valuable information, ie a Dumb Orphan or Dumb Chicken.
- DZ
- A pre-selected area where troops are deployed, or dropped.
E
- Easy
- Difficult.
- Easy Easy
- Easy.
- Entertainment.
- Combat
- ETLA
- an "E"xtended "T"hree "L"etter "A'cronym. A four letter Acronym.
F
- Fascinating
- Extremely interesting.
- Fatigue
- Weak Spot.
- Fatigue Scanning
- Looking for the weak spots in a system or organization.
- Fear Gland
- Self preservation instinct. Considered a bad quality in a Special Ops.
- Field Promotion
- Refers to rank advancement given to troops in the field for acts of skill or bravery; also slang for "killed in action", typically in a successful mission (from commands habit of promoting and commending fallen troopers).
- Firework
- Anything containing a reasonably large fusion reactor.
- Fish
- 1. Fish.
- 2. Aquatic species (Quarren).
- 3. Trouble.
- 4. To bait an area and wait.
- Frac
- Fraction of a credit, particularly any non-imperial currency unit.
- Fracs'n'Blacks
- Large quantity of money in a number of denomination and currrency types.
- Frag
- Fragmentation Grenage, would be used as "Frag 'em!"
- Frosty
- Refers to a troope's ability to maintain calm under fire.
- Fuzzball
- Any fur-covered species.
G
- Gander
- Grenade
- Gnu
- A Gun, or slugthrower.
- Grease
- 1. A Bribe.
- 2. Funding for a Bribe.
- Greenhorn
- A new soldier who's way to eager for combat.
- Grey Man
- Imperial Intelligence Agent.
- Groundshaker (GS)
- Imperial AT-AT Walker.
H
- Hardpoint
- A fortified enemy emplacement or other well-defended target.
- Headhunting
- Physical: To locate an enemies head or main nerve center with the intent of destroying it. Conceptual: Taking out the leader, or main power source that motivates something onward.
- Headshot
- Any single operation that renders the rest of an enemies operation useless.
- High Drop
- Deploying Troops from orbit.
- Hijack
- Con, bribe, trick, order or otherwise persuade a complete stranger to render assistance in some task.
- Hitching a Ride
- Using someone else's intelligence network or facilities, usually without their knowledge or permission.
- Hornet
- 1. Large winged insect.
- 2. Imperial T.I.E. Bomber
- Hot Drop
- Landing in a dangerous area, typically one patrolled or while under fire.
- HSS
- (High Speed Surgery) Disabling an armored vehicle or starship by cutting a hole in its hull and injecting a grenade or thermal Detonator into the gap.
- Hundred's Club
- Those individuals whose bounties exceed 100,000 credits and are still at large.
- HWS
- Heavy Weapon Specialist
I
- Inescapable
- A Very Fascinating Situation.
- Interesting
- Very Dangerous
- Invitation
- Explosive Device.
- Invite
- To use an Invitation to gain entry.
- ISW
- Infantry Support Weapon, used by a HWS.
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K
- KIA
- Killed in Action.
- KSA
- Imperial Radtrooper (slang used by Spec Ops agents; KSA stands for "Kinky Silver armor").
L
- Landing Zone
- The Area in which troops land.
- Leech
- A spook with "acquisition" skills.
- Less Boring
- Dead. See Boring
- Lightly Tronned
- A tron where the vehicle crew survuves. See Tron.
- Livestock
- Assorted weapons, explosives and heavy artillery.
- Low Drop
- Troops are deployed or "dropped" while in atmosphere.
- Lum
- Recovered Orphan.
- LZ
- The Area in which troops land.
M
- Mallard
- A High-Ranking Duck.
- Mildly
- (abjective) Extremely.
- Mindspook
- A Special Operations agent with enhanced mental powers, usualyy a Force using agent.
- Mindspook
- A spook with Force skills.
- Mud Foot
- Derogatory term for inexperienced Alliance infantry.
N
- Nature Lovers
- Wilderness Fighters.
- Nerf
- Small spherical squishy grazing animal requiring very little attention.
- Nerfherder
- Someone with entirely too much free time.
- NRU
- Imperial Royal Guardsman (slang used by Spec Ops agents; NRU stands for "Nice Red Uniform").
O
- Orphan
- Rebel soldier or pilot stranded in the field.
P
- Paradrop
- Landing via para-sail. Dropped troops typically land in a pre-selected drop zone or DZ.
- Penned
- Captured by Empire, as in a Penned Orphan
- Plastic Men
- Stormtroopers.
- Plastic Soldiers
- Stormtroopers.
- Pouring Salting on the Wound
- Resalting using the same plans, simply change dates and locations. (see Salting the Ether.)
- Pretty
- Gross
- PS
- Stormtrooper (slang used by Spec Ops agents; PS stands for "Plastic Soldier").
- PSC (Plastic Soldier Carrier)
- Imperial AT-AT Walker.
- Puppetmen
- Imperial special mission troops, term dervied from their use in political-gain operations to frame "rebel terrorists" for carefully calculated atrocities.
- Pyroman
- Demolitions Expert.
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R
- R & R
- An unofficial or unauthorized mission.
- Raisin-head
- A greenhorn who's seen too many war holos.
- Recovering Spook
- A Mission Group agent attached to a SpecForce unit.
- Red Carpet
- Large Quantity of explosive devices.
- Roach
- A Bug that will not die.
- Rocket Jockeys
- Starfighter pilots; SpecForce troops cheerfully despise the arrogant and (they believe) better-treated starfighter pilots.
S
- Salting the Ether
- Generating spurious plans for non-esistent missions and broadcasting them in tight code in spare bandwiths to keep Imperial Intelligence's Analysis Bureau from getting bored.
- Sand Banthas
- Desert Wilderness Fighters.
- Sandman
- Imperial Sandtrooper.
- Scanner
- Sensor Specialist. Not to be confused with a type of Sensor.
- Scanner
- Type of Sensor.
- Scoping
- 1. Estimating resources needed for an operation.
- 2. Maintaining surveillance on members of the opposite sex.
- Scrip
- Corporate or Planetary currency.
- Season Ticket
- Several explosive devices.
- Sec
- Abbreviated modifier referring to Sector, as in SecForces, SecInt, or SecCom
- SecCom
- Sector Command, the center of a sectors force.
- SecForces
- The local sector military forces.
- SecInt
- Sector Intelligence, not ofter refered to in a good light.
- Severly Tronned
- When practically nothing survives. See Tron.
- Shadowmen
- Imperial Storm Commandos.
- Shadows
- Imperial Storm Commandos.
- Shadows
- SpecForce Infiltrators.
- Shopping
- The act of raiding a Imperial Supply Depot.
- Shuttling Your Dead
- Refers to the SpecForce practice of recovering the bodies of fallen comrades before evacuatling an area.
- SideThink
- Peculiar Special Ops mindset, blending opportunism, careful planning and lethal efficiency with a healthy dose of mindless recklessness and pure cockiness.
- Smart
- Someone that has nothing valuable to offer, ie a Smart Orphan or Smart Chicken.
- Smokers
- Smoke Grenades.
- Snowmen
- Imperial Snowtrooper.
- Spec
- Special Forces trooper. Also used to modify anyone or anything connected to Special Forces, as in SpecForce, SpecTech, or SpecCom.
- SpecCom
- Special Forces Command.
- Special
- 1. Generic military term for anything unusual, as in special weapons, special missions, Special Operations, special situations, or special agents. Bland and non-descriptive, the term has become almost meaningless.
- 2. Non-descriptive term used to descripe anything odd or suspicious. -"What a special honor."
- Special Forces
- 1. Any elite military unit assigned to difficult issions; small caps when used generically, I.e. Imperial special forces.
- 2. An Alliance military branch primarily dedicated to hit-and-fade operations; capitalized as the name of a main military branch.
- SpecTech
- SpecForce Technician
- Specter
- A Special Forces trooper assigned to Special Operation.
- SpecTroops
- General term for Alliance Special Forces trooper.
- Spider
- A Cute Bug
- Spook
- A Special Operative, particularly a solo one.
- Spook
- Alliance SpecOps agent. Also spooky when referring to SpecOps attitudes or missions.
- Star Destroyer
- 174,000 design flaws waiting to be exploited.
- STLA
- a "S"hortened "T"hree "L"etter "A'cronym. A two letter Acronym.
- Strongpoint
- A fortified enemy emplacement or other well-defended target.
- Superspook
- Alliance Free Agent
- Swan
- A High Ranking Mallard
- Sweet
- Cute and cuddly.
T
- TAD
- Thermal Detonator, Used in "Add a TAD to fix that Imperial Bunker."
- Takeoff
- Eliminating prime weapons, while leaving the heart of an object intact. For example, destroying a defensive ion cannon while leaving a power plant intact, or downing the bodygaurds of a powerful but unarmed crimelord.
- TAM
- Imperial Storm Commando (slang used by Spec Ops agents; TAM stands for "Threatening Armored Man").
- Tauntauns
- Artic Wilderness Fighters
- TD
- Thermal Detonator.
- TFC
- 1. Taskforce commander.
- 2. Taskforce companies.
- Thermal
- Thermal Detonator.
- Thinking Sideways
- A compliment.
- Tinfish
- Imperial Seatrooper.
- Tinfish Bucket
- Imperial AT-AT Swimmer.
- TK
- Sniper (refers to telekinesis, from the sniper's ability to reach out and "touch" a target at long range).
- TLA
- "T"hree "L"etter "A"cronym.
- Townies
- Urban Combat Specialists.
- Toy
- Melee or hand weapon.
- Toy Soldiers
- Stormtroopers.
- Toybox
- Where Toy's are stored.
- Trawling
- Out looking for "fish". See fish.
- Trekkers
- Pathfinders, troops that specialize in mapping and exploring dangerous combat areas prior to invasion.
- TrekSpecs
- Pathfinders, troops that specialize in mapping and exploring dangerous combat areas prior to invasion.
- Tron
- To cause an opposing vehicle to suffer a "spectacularly debilitating irreversible maneuvering capability deficit" (crash).
- Troopies
- Alliance regular soldiers, generally by SpecForce Troopers, not a derogatory refferance, it is usually used in a parental sense.
U
- UCSs
- Urban Combat Specialists.
- Useless
- Imperial officers, especially ranking rear echelon officers.
V
- Vacheads
- SpaceOps troopers; to their faces, the name comes from their operational enviroment; behind their backs, the name refers to their harshness and reputed lack of intelligence. They do not respond well to the term.
- Vapebait
- See Blaster Magnet.
- Vapor Op
- A hopless plan, of the type produced by greenhorns, laser-brains and rasin heads.
- Very (Dumb / Smart)
- Someone who "Knows to much" and must be rescued, silenced or discredited in some way.
W
- Wake up call
- Grenade.
- Wasp
- 1. Winged insect.
- 2. Imperial T.I.E. Interceptor
- Whiskers
- Accumulated experience, as in "he's got long whiskers." Sometimes a literal description, as SpecTroop human males often wear beards.
- Whitehats
- Stormtroopers.
- Wookies
- Forest Wilderness Fighters.
- Wraiths
- SpecForce Infiltrators.
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