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Acronyms & Slang

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'''Whale:''' An Orca, for the ship name originating from a whale species.

'''Boiling:''' Silent running near a star or a station orbiting close to a star.

'''Brick:''' Lakon Type-6 Transporter ship, for it's appearance looking very similar to the shape of a brick.

'''Redbull Can: '''Deployed mine, cylinder-looking shape.

'''Useless Dreg:''' Common insult originally coming from pirates after a scan shows no cargo.

'''Noise Machine: '''An Adder, particularly it's sounds disliked by many players.

'''Conda:''' Short term for an Anaconda.

'''Sidey:''' Short term for a Sidewinder.

'''Winder:''' Another short term for a Sidewinder.

'''Imp:''' An NPC or player allied with the Empire and flying an Imperial vessel.

'''Trash can:''' A canister containing scrap, bio waste or other waste commodities.

'''Pills:''' Short term for the narcotics commodity.

'''Toast rack: '''The wire frame structure outside of a station's airlock.

'''Hot soup:''' Fuel scooped from a star.

'''Fed(s):''' NPC or player allied with the Federation / Federation itself.

'''Ugly Duckling:''' An Adder

'''Friendship Drive:''' Affectionate term for the Frameshift Drive based on the pronunciation of the ship computer.

'''Freebooter:''' A term originally said by authority vessels against a pilot if caught doing an illegal action.

'''Letter box:''' A term for the airlock slot.

'''Thirsty: '''A ship that is low on fuel.

'''Billionaire: '''Term traditionally used for a player that took advantage of a past major server transaction glitch which caused commodity duplicating where multiple player(s) had obtained 1,000,000,000+ credits.

'''Freagle:''' Originally a term for an Eagle that some players had won after purchase of the game.

'''Space cow: '''The Lakon Type-9 Heavy.

'''Griefer:''' A player that supposedly waits inside a station to attack random players docking, or to interdict and attack random players in super-cruise for entertainment or humor, not for piracy or bounty hunting, etc. See [http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Griefers] for more information.

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Planets

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There are three main categories of planets: Solid planets, water giants and gas giants. Even moons are considered as planets.

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|text = Scientific notes: Actually the term planet refers to celestial bodies orbiting a star with a gravity in a specific range. The gravity of a planet has to be strong enough to hold fluids in a stable state (hydrostatic equilibrium) which prevents them from escaping the planet and low enough to prevent nuclear processes to start as in stars. Some astronomical bodies, we call planets, are not considered as planets by this definition. Moons are natural satellites orbiting a planet and do not fall into the category of planets. However, some natural satellites are considered as planets because they fit their definition.}}

== Terrestrial planet ==
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table article-table-selected"
|-
! scope="col"|Image
! scope="col"|Class
! scope="col"|Color
! scope="col"|<span style="font-weight:bold;">Exploration Value (with detailed surface scanner?)</span>
! scope="col"|Rarity
! scope="col"|In game description
|-
|[[File:Icy-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|Icy planet
|White - Grey
|~500cr
|Very common
|Ice world composed mainly of water ice. Worlds like this will not have much heating in the past, forming in the cooler regions of a star system and have retained many volatiles as solids withing their crust.
|-
|[[File:Rocky-Planets-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|
Rocky planet
|White - Grey - Light blue - Light brown - Yellow
|~500cr
|Common
|Rocky world with little or no surface metal content. Worlds like this have lost most of their volatiles due to past heating, and any metallic content will form a small central core.
|-
|
[[File:Rocky_ice.png|thumb|center]]
|Rocky ice planet
|White - Grey - Light blue - Light brown
|~500cr
|Uncommon
|Rocky ice world. Typically formed in the cooler regions of star system these worlds have a small metal core and thick rocky mantle with a crust of very deep ice. Geological activity is common in these worlds because of the large quantities of volatiles in the crust, often creating a thin, sometimes seasonal atmosphere.
|-
|[[File:High-Metal-Content-Planets-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|High metal content planet
|Brown - Dark brown - Beige
|2,500cr
|Uncommon
|Metal-rich world with a metallic core. Worlds like this can have metallic ores near the sruface in places, especially around areas of past volcanism.
|-
|[[File:Metal_rich.png|thumb|center]]
|Metal rich planet
|Brown - Black (sometime with visible lava)
|~5,000cr
|Rare
|High metal content worlds like this have a large metallic core, with plentiful metallic ores even at the surface. In places, especially around areas of past or current volcanism or liquid erosion, some higher metals can be found in their elemental form too. Mining is therefore very efficient, so these worlds are highly valued.
|-
|[[File:Water-World-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|Water world
|Blue with green, brown and white
|unknown (guess ~10,000cr)
|very rare
|Terrestrial water world with an active water-based chemistry and carbon-water-based life.
|-
|[[File:Earthlike.png|thumb|center]]
|Earth-like world
|Blue with green, brown and white
|~10,000cr
|
Extremely rare
|Outdoor world with a human-breathable atmosphere and indigenous life. The atmosphere is far from chemical equilibrium as a result.
|-
|[[File:Ammonia-World-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|Ammonia world
|Light brown. Uncommon colors are dark brown or beige
|unknown (guess ~10,000cr)
|Very rare
|Terrestrial ammonia world with an active ammonia-based chemistry and carbon-ammonia based life.
|}

== Water Giants ==
=== Water Giant ===
* Very rare.
* Color: Blue
* Exploration value: unknown
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== Gas Giants ==
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table"
!Image
!Class
!Exploration Value (with detailed surface scanner?)
!Rarity
!In game description
|-
|[[File:Gas-Giant-Class-I.png|thumb|center]]
|I
|1,000 - 1,500cr
|Rare
|Class I or Jovian gas giants have primarily hydrogen and helium atmospheres. Coloration comes from clouds in the upper atmosphere of ammonia, water vapour, hydrogen sulphide, phosphine and sulphur. The temperature at the top of their upper cloud layers is typically less than 150 K.
|-
|[[File:Class_II.png|thumb|center]]
|II
|5,000cr
|Very rare
|(There is curently a bug which make the map show the class III gas giant description instead of the class II )
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|[[File:Gas-Giant-Class-III-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|III
|1,000 - 1,500cr
|Rare
|Class III gas giants have primarily hydrogen and helium atmospheres without distinctive cloud layers. Their surface temperature typically ranges between 350 K and 800 K. They are primarily blue in colour because of optical scattering in the armosphere - with the chance of wispy cloud layers from sulphides and chlorides.
|-
|[[File:Gas-Giant-Class-IV-180px.png|thumb|center]]
|IV
|1,000 - 1,500cr
|Rare
|
|-
|[[File:Gas_giant_with_ammonia_based_life.png|thumb|center]]
|Gas giant with ammonia-based life
|1,000 - 1,500cr ?
|Very rare
|Gas giant with ammonia-based life. This is primarily a hydrogen and helium-based atmospheric gas giant, but a little below the surface cloud layers,life exists based in the ammonia-cloud layer. The chemistry of this gaseous region is far from equilibrium, with a surprising excess of oxygen and many carbon-based compounds giving it some vivid colours. As with many such gaseous living systems, it is underpinned by vast quantities of free-floating radioplankton - tiny carbon-based algae, each retaining small quantity of liquid ammonia, extracting their energy from the intese radiation flux.
|-
|[[File:Water_based_life_gas_giant.png|thumb|center]]
|Gas giant with water-based life.
|1,000 - 1,500cr ?
|Very rare
|Gas giant with water-based life. This is primarily a hydrogen and helium based atmospheric gas giant, but not far below the surface exists life based in the water-cloud layer just below the atmospheric surface. The chemistry of this gaseous region is far from equilibrium, with a surprising excess of oxygen and many carbon-based compounds giving it some vivid colours. As with many such gaseous living systems, it is underpinned by vast quantities of free-floating radioplankton - tiny carbon-based algae, each retaining small quantity of liquid water, extracting their energy from the intese radiation flux.
|}
[[Category:Planets]]
[[Category:Celestials]]

Acronyms & Slang

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Acronyms & Slang

2015-01-08T20:53:07Z

99.239.112.93: Added a slang list page with acronyms used in the game.

'''''Please add to this page.'''''
'''Whale:''' An Orca, name originating from a whale species.

'''Boiling:''' Silent running near a star or a station orbiting close to a star.

'''Brick:''' Lakon Type-6 Transporter ship, for it's appearance looking very similar to the shape of a brick.

'''Redbull Can: '''Deployed mine, cylinder-looking shape.

'''Useless Dreg:''' Common insult originally coming from pirates after a scan shows no cargo.