Term | Category | Meaning |
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AAA | Military | Anti-Aircraft Artillery. |
AAU | Military | Anti-Aircraft Unit. |
ACH | Wiki | After Cylon Holocaust, out-of-universe calendar. |
ACM | Military | Air Combat Maneuver. |
Actual | Military | Callsign modifier that specifies the commanding officer. |
Admiral | Military | Second highest rank in the Colonial Fleet. |
Admiralty | Military | Group of highest-ranking flag officers in the Colonial Fleet. |
AI | Common | Artificial Intelligence. |
Air Group | Military | Fighter group, comprised of several squadrons. |
Ambrosia | Common | A type of alcoholic beverage. |
ASAP | Military | As Soon As Possible. |
BCH | Wiki | Before Cylon Holocaust, out-of-universe calendar. |
Back to the barn | Military | Return to base. |
Battlestar | Military | Battleship/Carrier hybrid used by the Colonial Fleet. |
Beast, the | Military | Nickname for the Battlestar Pegasus. |
Big G, the | Military | Nickname for the Battlestar Galactica. |
Bingo fuel | Military | Reached minimum fuel level for safe return [to base]. |
Boxing | Cylon | To download Cylons consciousness into a storage device instead of a new body. |
BSG | Military | Battlestar Group, a fleet of warships led by a battlestar. |
Bucket, the | Military | Nickname for the Battlestar Galactica. |
CAG | Military | Commander, Air Group, an officer in charge of battlestars air group. |
CAP | Military | Combat Air Patrol. |
Captain | Military | Commissioned officer rank in the Colonial Fleet. |
CBDR | Military | Constant Bearing; Decreasing Range, suspected collision course. |
CF | Military | Colonial Fleet. |
CFR | Military | Colonial Fleet Reserve. |
Chrome job | Military | Pejorative term used by Humans to describe Cylon centurions. |
CIC | Military | Command Information Center, a bridge of a battlestar. |
CMC | Military | Colonial Marine Corps. |
CMCR | Military | Colonial Marine Corps Reserve. |
CMO | Militar | Chief Medical Officer. |
CNP | Military | Command Navigation Program. |
CO | Military | Commanding Officer. |
Code Blue | Military | Security Alarm, possible Cylon infiltration spotted. |
Colonel | Military | Commissioned officer rank in the Colonial Fleet. |
Colonial Fleet | Military | Naval branch of the United Colonies of Kobol armed forces. |
Cubit | Common | Denomination of Colonial currency. |
DC | Military | Damage Control. |
DCT | Military | Damage Control Team. |
DRADIS | Common | Direction, RAnge, and DIStance, colonial version of RADAR. |
ECO | Military | Electronic Countermeasures Officer. |
Electronic Countermeasures | Military | Equipment used to scramble electronic systems, such as guidance used by missiles, or DRADIS signal. |
EMI | Common | Electromagnetic Interference. |
EMP | Common | Electromagnetic Pulse. |
Ensign | Military | A junior officer rank in the Colonial Fleet. |
EOD | Military | Explosive Ordnance Disposal. |
Frak | Common | Colonial version of the world "fuck". |
FTL | Military | Faster Than Light. |
GDD | Common | Global Defense Department, a Caprican defence agency. |
Genny | Military | Clipping of the word "generator". |
Holoband | Common | Virtual reality device, common pre-and-during the 1st Cylon War. |
IFF | Military | Identification Friend or Foe. |
KIA | Military | Killed in Action. |
Knuckle-dragger | Military | Slang term for enlisted personnel. |
Krypter | Common | Mayday, a Colonial distress call. |
Lords of Kobol | Common | A pantheon of deities worshipped in the Twelve Colonies. |
LSO | Military | Landing Signals Officer, the officer in charge landing of craft. |
MCP | Common | Meta-Cognitive Processor, a processor used by the U-87 Cylon. |
Morpha | Common | Pain killer similar to morphine. |
NCP | Common | New Caprica Police. |
Nugget | Military | Nickname given to trainee pilots. |
OD | Common | Overdose. |
Oh my Gods | Common | Colonial version of "Oh my God". |
OOD | Military | Officer of the Deck. |
POW | Common | Prisoner of War. |
Projecting | Cylon | Creating a virtual reality in someoneone's own mind. |
PTF | Common | Playing the Field, an advice column on dating in the Twelve Colonies. |
Rain | Military | The sound of the metal scrap hitting fighter in space during/after combat. |
Raptor | Military | Recon and electronic-warfare craft used by the Colonial Fleet. |
Red Line | Common | A distance at which FTL calculations become unsafe due to the increasing chances of an unexpected encounter with a stellar objects. |
RFN | Common | Right Frakking Now. |
SAR | Military | Search and Rescue. |
Shuttle | Common | Small spaceship used to shuttle people to and from other ships. |
Sitrep | Military | SITuation REport. |
Skin job | Common | Pejorative term used by Humans to describe humanoid Cylons. |
STO | Common | Soldiers of the One, a monotheistic terrorist organization. |
SU | Common | Measurement of distance. |
Toaster | Common | Pejorative term used by Humans to describe Cylons |
Two Alpha | Military | Extremely risky, and therefore voluntary mission. |
Tylium | Common | A mineral that can be refined to a powerful fuel. |
V-Club | Common | A series of chat rooms used by Holoband users. |
V-World | Common | An interactive network used by Holoband technology. |
Viper | Military | Class of space-superiority fighters used by the Colonial Fleet. |
War porn | Military | Footage from a war zone, often uncut and uncensored. |
Wilco | Military | WILl COmply. |
Wireless | Common | Colonial term for "Radio", a wireless comunication. |
XO | Military | Executive Officer. |
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