| ACRONYM |
MEANING |
| AMG |
Antimatter Gun |
| AMM |
Anti-Matter Maul |
| "Anni" |
Annihilation Class Battleship (Tech 10 Cyborg Ship) |
| AU |
Assault Units - also GU |
| "Barbs" |
Barbitic Minefields |
| BC |
Blaster Cannon |
| BDA |
Beam Down All cargo and guests (except Ordnance) (ship command code) |
| BDC |
Beam Down Cash (Megacredits) (ship command code) |
| BDF |
Beam Down Food (ship command code) |
| BDG |
Beam Down Grain (i.e. Food) (ship command code) |
| BDM |
Beam Down Metals and Money (MC D T M) - (ship command code) |
| BDN | Beam Down Neutronium (fuel) (all but 60 kt) (ship command code) |
| BDO |
Beam Down Ordnance (all but 500) |
| BDP |
Beam Down Personel and Money (MC Tr Col HG) -(ship command code) |
| BDS |
Beam Down Supplies |
| "Birds" |
Birdmen (race) |
| BL |
Boarding Laser |
| "Borg" |
Cyborg (race) |
| "Bots" |
Robotic Emperium (race) |
| BUC |
Beam Up Cash |
| BUO |
Beam Up Ordnance (ship command code) also ORD from any base under the ship that you own or hasa matching friendly code |
| BUF |
Beam Up Food (ship command code) used to be "Beam Up Fuel" |
| BUM |
Beam Up Metals |
| BUN |
Beam Up Neutronium (fuel) (ship command code) |
| BUR |
Beam Up Repair Units (ship command code) |
| BUS |
Beam Up Supplies (ship command code) |
| CB |
Contraband (also "Contra") |
| cc |
Command Code |
| "Cents" |
Centaurs (race) |
| CIA |
Deletes any alien hull plans you have stored on the base (base command code) joke "acronym"? allusion to the Central Intelligence Authority? |
| CLS |
Crystal Light Ship (Tech 10 Crystal ship) |
| "Coalition" |
Reunited Coalition of Systems (race) |
| "Col" |
Colonists |
| "Colos" |
Colonists |
| CoM |
Colonies of Man (race) |
| "Contra" |
Contraband (also CB) |
| "Cube" |
Annihilation Class Battleship (Tech 10 Cyborg Ship) |
| D |
Duranium or "Dur" |
| DC |
Disrupter Cannon |
| "Dur" |
Duranium |
| DOC |
Destroy Old Cities (base command code) ; causes all cites to be destroyed (Undercities are NOT destroyed). |
| "Dracs" |
Holy Draconian Empire (race) |
| DW |
Dark Wing (Battleship) (Tech 9 Birdmen Ship) |
| DWG |
Dark Wing G (Tech 10 Birdmen Ship) |
| EE |
Evil Empire (race) |
| EM |
Energy Mine |
| EPA |
Destroys all mines and smelters on the planet (base command code) joke "acronym"? allusion to the Environmental Protection Agency? |
| ET |
Exotic Tech(nology) |
| FC |
Flake Cannon (suggestion :use FlaC) |
| FC |
Friendly Code (suggestion : use FrC) |
| FC |
Fusion Cannon (suggestion : use FusC) |
| "Feds" |
Solar Federation (race) |
| GA |
Galactic Account (suggestion : use GalAc) |
| GA | Gravitonic Accelerator (suggestion : use GrA) |
| GA |
Ground Assault or Ground Attack |
| GB |
Ground Battle |
| GBA |
Give Base Away (base command code) Your base will be given to any other race with a base on the planet. It will go to any friends you have first, if you have no friends it will be given to your enemy. All your assault units, fighters, special race buildings and high guard will vanish |
| GC |
Galactic credits |
| GC |
Government Centre (suggestion : use GoC) |
| GC |
Ground Combat (suggestion : use GA) |
| GD |
Glory Device |
| GP |
Gatling Phasor |
| "Gravs" |
Gravitonic Minefields |
| "Gravitons" |
Gravitonic Minefields |
| GU |
Ground Unit |
| "guests" |
Colonists, Troops and Highguard; all people which can be put at the guest quarter of a ship |
| GZ |
Gun Zero |
| HB |
Home Base (starting Base) |
| HD |
Holo Decoy (sometimes "Holo") (suggestion : use HoD) |
| HD |
Hyper Dimensional (Stress) HD in this context is most times used for the HD-Stress level of the
planet. |
| HFC |
High Food Consumption (game Host Option) |
| HG |
High Guard |
| HL |
Heavy Laser |
| "Holo" |
Holo Decoy - ( also HD) |
| HW |
Homeworld |
| IC |
Ion Cannon |
| IGA |
Ion Gun Array |
| JG |
Jump Gate |
| JGB |
Jump Gate Builder |
| JOE |
Jump Only Escort(s) (command code) If a jumping jump point ship has the command code "JOE" only escorting ships and wings will jump with the ship. It will stop undocked Pods to leave with the ship. |
| JPG |
Jump Point Generator |
| LDSF |
Large Deep Space Freighter |
| LST |
Virgo Light Speed will stay on (CoM special ship command code) |
| LTA |
Large Turbo Laser Array (also LTLA) |
| LTLA |
Large Turbo Laser Array (also LTA) |
| LW |
Large Weapon |
| M |
Molybdenum (or "Moly" or "Mol") |
| MBR |
Meteor (Class) Blockade Runner (Tech 9 Privateer Ship) |
| MC |
Megacredits |
| MCBR | Meteor Class Blockade Runner (Tech 9 Privateer Ship) |
| MD |
Mass Driver |
| MDSF |
Medium Deep Space Freighter |
| "Med" |
Medical Supplies |
| "Met" |
Metals - Duranium, Tritanium and Molybdenum - and sometimes Neutronium |
| MET |
Metal - Cargo Desk makes pods full of metals (Aczanny only command code) |
| MF |
Mine Field |
| MML |
Micro Missile Launcher |
| "Mol" |
Molybdenum (or "Moly") |
| "Moly" |
Molybdenum (or "Mol") |
| MP |
Movement Phase sometimes called "Ticks" or "Tiks" (1/200 part of a turn) |
| MSC |
Micro Sand Caster |
| NCH |
No Chunnel or Jump (command code) |
| NID |
New ID (command code - Scavenger Q Ships only) |
| NOG |
No Gather - Causes the base to not gather stuff from the planet (base command code) |
| NOT |
No Training - stops training troops on the ship (CoM special command code) |
| "Ord" |
Ordnance (unit) |
| ORD |
Beam Up Ordnance (command code) also BUO from any base under the ship that you own or has a matching friendly code |
| PBC |
Plasma Bolt Cannon |
| PC |
Particle Cannon (suggestion : use ParC) |
| PC |
Political Correctness (race statistic) |
| PD |
Point Defences |
| "Peeps" |
People's Army (race) |
| "Pirats" |
Privateers (race) |
| "Privs" |
Privateers (race) |
| PPC |
Pulsed Phasor Cannon |
| PTT |
Photon Torpedo Tube |
| R## |
Rebels special command code: "##" = number of race rebel ship appears to be. |
| RCS |
Reunited Coalition of Systems (race) |
| "Rebs" |
Rebels (race) |
| RFD |
Refine Fuel from Duranium -fuel refinery ships will use only duranium to make fuel (ship command code) |
| RFM |
Refine Fuel from Molybdenum - fuel refinery ships will use only molybdenum to make fuel (ship command code) |
| RFT |
Refine Fuel from Tritanium - fuel refinery ships will use only tritanium to make fuel (ship command code) |
| "Robo(s)" |
Robotic Emperium (race) |
| SC |
Sand Caster |
| "Scavs" |
Scavenger Tribes (race) |
| "Scum" |
Privateers (race) |
| SD |
Star Destroyer (Tech 2 Evil Empire Ship) |
| SDSF |
Small Deep Space Freighter |
| SL |
Super Laser |
| SSC |
Super Star Carrier (Tech 9 Evil Empire Ship) see STC below? |
| SSD |
Super Star Destroyer (Tech 8 Evil Empire Ship) |
| STC |
Super Star Cruiser (Tech 7 Evil Empire Ship) as opposed to SSC above? |
| "Sup" |
Supplies |
| SW |
Small Weapon or Super Weapon (unfortunately!) |
| SWA |
Scalar Wave Amplifier |
| SWD |
Scalar Wave Dampener |
| T |
Tritanium or "Trit" |
| TL |
Turbo Laser |
| TLA |
Turbo Laser Array |
| TNT |
Destroy Base (base command code) joke "acronym" - for Tri-Nitro-Toluene? Your base will be destroyed if there are no colonists at the base anymore and there is a ship in orbit. Command code resets to "AAA" after the base is captured - to prevent captured bases blowing up. |
| TOT |
Tank o Tronic (Exotic Tecnology) |
| "Tr" |
Troops? sometimes Troops mean only the Troops, sometimes Crew + Troops + HGs,
sometimes "all Ground Troops" (maybe except colos) = Crew+Troops+HGs+GU |
| "Tri" |
Tritanium |
| "Trit" |
Tritanium |
| TW |
Transwarp (engine) |
| UA |
University Alliance (race) |
| UEA |
United Enforcement Authority (Race) |
| UFC |
Universal Friendly Code sometimes FC is used |
| USA |
All labor camps and labor mines will be destroyed (base command code) joke "acronym"? |
| WC |
World Crusher Missile |
| WCM |
World Crusher Missile |
| "Webs" |
Web Minefields |
| WP |
Way Point |
| WPF |
Causes the waypoint to be used instead of the escort target for movement. If
the ship has no waypoint set then the escort target is used instead. (ship command code) |
| "X-tal" |
Crystals (race) |