Glossary

Aeon - 1/10th of a Deious military division.

Archmage - Very powerful spellcaster.

BHSH - Blatantly Holographic Sexual Humour. Jokes Holographics (and strangely enough, the odd Holographic player) find funny, mostly involving excessive sexual themes.

Century - Play on a Roman Century. 100 Terran troops.

Character - The being you control.

Command - words typed in battle implying an action that is to be performed.

Creation - Everything that exists. Used instead of the Drayn word T'chl.

Divine - Short for Divine Wind (Kamikaze). Spell/Technique will usually kill the user.

Referee or Ref - Moderator watching over the battlefield.

Fighter - Often, but not always, used to describe small snub fighter spacecraft.

Game Master or GM - Moderator watching over the game as a whole.

Geyjada - Drayn for 'Surrender'.

Given Rank - A rank rewarded to a person exceptional in that field, regardless of military success or failure.

GMC - 'GM Controlled': refers to an NPC under Gamemaster control.

Header - Referring to the Skill statistics main categories, examples include: Weapon Skill, Strength, Grieve, etc. These are never trained, but are instead an average of all the header's subcategories.

Jet - In Grieve, a term for a release of power in the shape of a solid horizontal cone.

Kamda - Drayn for 'Draw'.

Masochist - Holographic slang for 'Drazon'.

Millennium - 1000 troops.

Minor Divine - Spell will often injure the user.

Minor Race - This term refers to Arnons, Humans, Marsians, Nicros, Scuride, Sealtions and Tolindans.

NPC - Non-Player Character

PC - Player Character (same as Character, above).

Player - The guys and girls at the keyboards.

Player NPC or PNPC - Player Controlled NPC.

Subcategories - Referring to the Skill statistics derivatives of main categories, examples include: Sword Skill, IQ, etc. These can be trained.

Taken - Military rank seized by beating the one holding the rank in combat.

Technically Useless - Has not technical use, though has possible Roleplay use.

Terran - Both a word for Humans and for Deious land troops.

Trueform - Either a Pure Minor Race (or Non-Deious race), a Drazon/Holographic in the form of that race or a Mixed-Race elemental in Flesh state.

Vegan - Drazon insult directed at one's culinary tastes.

Wing - When not used to describe an actual wing, used to describe an Aerospace 'unit'.

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