Terms and Jargon
Asimov Laws - All Androids and AI are programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics, called the Asimov Laws.
First Law
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
First Law
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
- Aug - Recipient of cybernetic augmentation
- Bloomer - Young kid getting wise to the Corporate game and a possible potential revolutionary ally. 22nd century "Woke"
- Boffo - Somebody who just ain't with it, ya feel me?
- Bug - Large alien life form, often used in reference to "Bug Hunt" where they are acquired for research or killed for sport
- Cass - Short for "Corporate Asimov." Altered Asimov ruleset for Androids allowing the definition of "human" to be refined into more specific categories. Illegal on Earth.
- Chromat - Poorly functioning and/or poorly made androids, derives from the Chromat model of Androids which had a global malfunction in 2093.
- Corporate Enclave - Quantum-Entangled Communication platform secured for Corporate Executives and Representatives to receive privileged data
- Dark Side - Term for illicit research performed far from corporate oversight
- Enclave - Corporate secured long range quantum entanglement facility for secure transmissions
- Skinnies - Androids that look and act like humans. Illegal on Earth.
- FreezerBurn - Damage (mostly mental) done to a person who spends too long in Cryostasis.
- Halogen-12 - Rare Extrasolar Metal Element with reactive properties sufficient to enable Fusion reaction. Outclassed by newer discovered elements.
- Hopper - From "Planet Hopper", contractors who do survey work on distant planets that 'hop' to other planets illegally to do survey and reclamation work.
- Jet - The "good stuff", often used by hackers to refer to juicy corporate intel
- Loader - Poor laborers who sell their contracts to work deep space, gaining augmentations to do better work. Derived from calling them "Power Loaders"
- MILF - Derogatory term for someone in the Mars Liberation Front, a legacy of 21st century wars. Now used for any idealistic libery-minded individual.
- PopSec - Joking term implied "Popsicle" for long-term cryostasis security
- Praxis - Revolutionary anarchist group believed to be responsible for numerous bombings and civil uprisings in the last fifteen years
- Shell - AI module of a master AI that is installed in a "Quantum Entanglement Chamber" allowing it to confer with the Master AI despite vast distances
- Sleeve - Corporate assassins known for their talent in disguise and assimilation, suspicious deaths are often joked as "Sleeve got em"
- Sol Tripper - Rich Earth elites who go on tours of outer systems
- Stars Up - "Gone Stars Up", term for "Space Madness" or chronic homesickness
- Suit - Corporate exec
- Spacer - People who spend most of their life in deep space, partly derogatory partly romantic term used in Earth
- UCC - Universal Corporate Charter, pan-governmental agreement on corporate rights. Historically considered the beginning of the modern Megacorp era
- Xeno - Alien life form
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