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  for more information.

DBX: Short term for the Diamondback Explorer.

DBS: Short term for the Diamondback Scout.