List of terms (TOS alternate)

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Like the show, the comics or novels based on the Original Series, and its spinoff, Galactica 1980, use different terminology in order to make the universe visceral to the reader. This array of terminology, used by both the Colonials and Cylons, consists of military jargon, colloquialisms, sayings, and technical terms.

This page does not serve to regurgitate or repeat terminologies used in both series, but terms that only appear in both the comics and novels. Each section is separated by publisher (Berkley, Marvel, Realm Press, et al.), in order to make the continuities clear.

Berkley novelizations

• germicide: part of a Warrior's medkit. Given the use of the suffix "-cide", this substance kills germs.
• viruscide: part of a Warrior's medkit. Given the use of the suffix "-cide", this substance kills viruses.

Dynamite Entertainment comics

• Attack Pattern Omega: a defensive posture employed by Lucifer's Raiders against the Meclons (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2).
• cautionary myth: early Cylon conditional programming that was unsuccessful, and "remembered" only by IL-series units, e.g. Lucifer (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #4).
• cerebral law: law enacted by Doctor Gaius Zee when assuming total command of the Fleet after Adama's death at the hands of the Thirteenth Tribe (Galactica 1980 #2).
• chromium: a material used in the threading of Colonial uniform braiding (Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #4).
• defense net: a network of automated defenses around each of the Colonies (Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #1).
• flark: an alternative of the word frack in an alternate reality (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 2 #3).
• Hovian: a sector containing a planet known for its unique magnetic field, capable of attracting derelict ships much like Iblis' planet (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #1).
• Larson's Apogee in C-Minor: a Colonial piano piece played by Baltar (Galactica 1980 #2).
• Meclons: a rogue cast of Cylons from Cylon cautionary myths, and later applied to Iblis Cylon forces (Battlestar Galactica: Folly of the Gods).
• light-yahren: Colonial term for lightyear (Galactica 1980 #1).
• planetary expeditionary vehicle carrier: also known as a "PEV" craft; Gemini is such a craft and is capable of launching smaller craft (such as turbines) on a planet's surface (Galactica 1980 #4).

Maximum Press comics

• ion storm: a spacial disturbance, one that creates a malfunction in Cylon 8765 (The Rebirth of Cy, Part 1).

Unproduced Scripts

• barrier wave: a wave of turbulence, such a wave strikes Galactica and the Fleet during their proximity to the Beta Triangle (TOS: "The Beta Pirates").
• Fix-it: robotic machines that serve to repair ships, and are part of the salvage tug sent to repair the Gemini freighter. During Boomer and Starbuck's review of the salvage tug's checklist, they check the readiness of the "Heavy-duty Fix-it" and the "Electronics Fix-it" (TOS: "The Beta Pirates").
• forcewave: another term for barrier wave (TOS: "The Beta Pirates").
• quarter-milliton: a time unit (TOS: "The Beta Pirates").
• gyroball: a spherical toy larger than a marble (TOS: "I Have Seen Earth").
• sentinel buoy: a spheroid spy satellite with lens-systems and sensors that is used by the Cylons. One such satellite detects Galactica as she and her Fleet skirt the outer boundary of the Beta Triangle (TOS: "The Beta Pirates").

Original Series definition: region of space or planet, see also Quadrant. Usually named after a Greek letter (space sectors), or a geographic formation on the surface of a planet (geographic sector, e.g. Sector Hekla on the planet Arcta")

Original Series definition: unit of time akin to a "year" (see: Yahren)

Re-imagined Series definition: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798