Post by Sidney Bainbridge on Mar 4, 2012 23:45:50 GMT -5
Abbreviations, Acronyms and Initialisms
AAA: Anti-aircraft artillery (pronounced "Triple-A"), such as a Battlestar's point defense batteries. Can also be used to refer to the flak barrier that AAA produces. E.g. “Stay out of Hyperion’s AAA.”
AAU: Anti-aircraft unit. Weapons emplacement used to destroy aerial targets, typically point defense cannons.
ACM: Air combat maneuver. The positioning of a plane to acquire a firing solution on an adversary; a required skill taught to Viper pilots during flight training.
AE: After Exodus is the dating convention in the BSG series to keep track of time. It is equivalent to “AD” with year 0 being when the Tribes left Kobol.
AI: Artificial Intelligence, research into such technology was deemed illegal by the Colonies after the First Cylon War. Cylons of course are AI constructs.
ASAP: “As Soon As Possible”. Usually pronounced "A-Sap" but occasionally spelled out “A-S-A-P.”
BSG: A Battlestar Group. A Battlestar and its complement of ships. A Battlestar Group might include just the one Battlestar (like the Galatcia’s group) or it might include several Battlestars and dozens of other smaller vessels.
CAG: Commander Air Group: the highest ranking (and often most senior) pilot on a ship. As the name implies, the CAG commands the ship’s air group. It is pronounced “Cag” not spelled out “C-A-G.”
CAP: Combat Air Patrol. A group of patrolling craft, mostly Vipers but also a few Raptors. CAPs can serve several functions and larger air wings will have multiple CAPs at once. Like CAG, CAP is pronounced “Cap” and not “C-A-P.”
CBDR: Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range. Indicates an object is on a collision course.
CIC: Combat Information Center, the nerve center or "bridge" of a Battlestar.
CMC: Colonial Marine Corps.
CMO: Chief Medical Officer.
CNP: Command Navigation Program: Computer operating system on military and civilian ships created by Gaius Baltar and exploited by the Cylons. The CNP was not a virus but merely a backdoor infiltration method. When it wasn’t being used to lock systems, the CNP increased effectiveness by aiding small craft in their navigation, targeting, and generally all avionics related systems. It aided larger command vessels by better tracking and coordinating those smaller vessels.
DC: Damage Control, generally related to the CIC station and related sub-station locations across the ship.
DCT: Damage Control Team; typically consisting of deckhands and other NCOs along with members found in the Engineering department.
DRADIS: "Direction, Range, and Distance". Colonial equivalent of radar.
ECO: Electronic Countermeasures Officer, typically in reference to the second crew member of a Raptor.
EMI: Electromagnetic interference. High-energy electromagnetic radiation from binary stars is known to interfere with DRADIS.
EMP: Electromagnetic pulse. A powerful electrically-disruptive surge that typically accompanies a nuclear detonation. EMP can disorient, disable, or completely destroy electronic systems.
FTL: Faster Than Light. A descriptive term referring to technologies that enable travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit. Such travel is near instantaneous and is called a “jump”.
GDD: Global Defense Department. Colonial Government agency that included military oversight as well as intelligence services and federal policing actions.
IFF: Identification Friend or Foe. A system using transponders to positively identify friendly spacecraft.
KIA: Killed in Action.
LSO: Landing Signal Officer.
OOD: Officer of the Deck.
OTP: On The Pooper
SAR: Search and Rescue.
SU: Distance measurement similar to "astronomical unit". Speculated to stand for "solar unit".
XO: Executive Officer
