List of terms (RDM)

This is a listing of terms in the Re-imagined Series. For terms used in the Original Series, see List of terms (TOS).

Acronyms

• AAU: Anti-aircraft Unit, a weapon emplacement used to destroy aerial units (Fragged)
• BSG: Battlestar Group (Water)
• CAG: Commander Air Group, i.e. the senior pilot
• CAP: Combat Air Patrol
• CBDR: Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range, i.e. a collision course (Final Cut, Pegasus)
• CF: Colonial Fleet (Final Cut)
• CFR: Colonial Fleet Reserve (Final Cut)
• CIC: Combat Information Center
• CMC: Colonial Marine Corps (Final Cut)
• CMCR: Colonial Marine Corps Reserve (Final Cut)
• CMO: Chief Medical Officer
• CNP: Command Navigation Program. Central computer program used on Colonial Fleet vessels (Miniseries)
• CO: Commanding Officer
• DC: Damage Control
• ECO: Electronic Countermeasures Officer
• EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference; such interference was thrown off by binary stars and interferes with DRADIS (The Captain's Hand)
• EMP: Electro-Magnetic Pulse; typically accompanies a nuclear explosion
• FTL: Faster Than Light
• IFF: Identification Friend Foe (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• KIA: Killed in Action (Sacrifice)
• LSO: Landing Signal Officer
• OOD: Officer of the Deck (Scattered)
• RFN: Right Frakking Now (Scattered, Valley of Darkness)
• SAR: Search and Rescue (Fragged)
• SU: Solar Unit. Distance measurement similar to "astronomical unit" (The Captain's Hand)
• XO: Executive Officer

Military Jargon

• Actual: the commanding officer. Used in wireless transmissions
• ball: visual indicator used in a battlestar's Instrument Landing System (Miniseries, Act of Contrition, Final Cut, Black Market)
• bingo: the point at which a spacecraft only has enough fuel to return to its mothership (You Can't Go Home Again, Scar)
• bird farm: Colonial pilot jargon for a battlestar (Final Cut)
• code blue: a term used by an officer who has identified a Cylon agent (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
• Command Authority: the senior person/persons in command of a military unit, such as an Admiral
• conn: literally the navigation controls, but also used to refer to command in general (The Captain's Hand)
• ell-tee: phonetic pronounciation of "Lt.", i.e. Lieutenant (Valley of Darkness, Fragged)
• fire team: a small unit of military personnel, typically Marines or soldiers (Valley of Darkness)
• five-'graph order: five paragraph operation order. A basic command tool taught to officer candidates (Fragged)
• genny: power generator. Tyrol asked Cally to "find the genny" to power up the lights on Ragnar Anchorage (Miniseries)
• klick: one kilometer
• knuckle dragger: inoffensive slang for a mechanic
• nugget: a pilot in training (Act of Contrition, Scar)
• Mark One Eyeball: the unaided eye (You Can't Go Home Again, Scar)
• Old Man: slang for the commanding officer
• recovery line: the point at which it becomes unlikely that a fighter will be able to safely return to base (33)
• rook: "rookie" (Miniseries)
• Sierra Alpha: "suspicious activity" (Scattered)
• sitrep: "situation report"
• skosh (ammo): radio code meaning "out of ammunition", analagous to modern-day "winchester" (The Captain's Hand)
• spinner: engineering component of a battlestar's FTL drive (The Captain's Hand)
• swallow: decoy drone deployed by Raptors (Miniseries)
• snipe: engineer (The Captain's Hand)
• trap: mechanism on a battlestar's landing bay which arrests the forward motion of either a Viper, Raptor or other small craft (Final Cut)
• Two Alpha: designation for an extremely risky and voluntary mission (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I)
• unrep: Short for Underway Replenishment. Used to describe the act of resupplying military vessels at sea in earth naval vessels, usually from dedicated ships while in motion. Used in Battlestar to describe basically the same thing

Other Colloquialisms

• The Beast: nickname for Pegasus (The Captain's Hand)
• Big G: nickname for Galactica
• The Bucket: nickname for Galactica (The Captain's Hand)
• bullet-head: slang for a Cylon Centurion (Downloaded)
• chrome job: slang for a Cylon Centurion (The Resistance)
• "dress and cover": military term for personell to form an ordered rank-and-file formation during ceremonies (Pegasus)
• frak: Colonial version of "fuck"
• freight monkey: term for crewmen on Colonial freighters (Scattered, deleted scene)
• hard six: taking large risks; literally, rolling 2 threes with a pair of dice
• Heavy: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798
• skin job: derogatory term for humanoid Cylons. Homage to the movie Blade Runner (Downloaded)
• stump: derogatory term for a prisoner in a labor camp (Bastille Day)
• toaster: derogatory term for Cylons in general
• toaster shopping: searching and destroying Cylons (Valley of Darkness)

Battlestar Galactica Specific Terms

• ambrosia: a type of alcoholic beverage
• carom: term used in conjunction with a Dradis Contact read; analogous to the term "mark"
• chamalla: hallucinogenic plant used in religious ceremonies and medical treatments
• cubit: unit of currency
• Dradis: Colonial equivalent of radar
• fumarella leaf: tobacco or a type of tobacco (Water)
• G-4: a type of explosive similar to modern C-4 (Water)
• krypter: Colonial version of "mayday" (Miniseries)
• morpha: Colonial equivalent of morphine (Valley of Darkness, Epiphanies)
• Pyramid: popular Colonial ball game
• Red Line: a point in space behind which an accumulative error creeps into FTL jump calculations (Miniseries, Pegasus (Extended Version))
• stims: stimulants or a type of stimulants (33, Final Cut)
• Triad: card game similar to Poker
• tylium: mineral that can be refined to a powerful fuel
• wireless: radio