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

Re-imagined Series definition: Anti-aircraft unit. Weapons emplacement used to destroy aerial targets ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}.

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.

Re-imagined Series definition: the senior pilot on a battlestar

Re-imagined Series definition: standard deployment of craft on defense posture, an anachronistic colloquialism used to refer to patrols in space

Re-imagined Series definition: Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range. Indicates object on a collision course ^{(TRS: "Final Cut", "Pegasus")}

Re-imagined Series definition: nerve center or "bridge" of a battlestar, see: Combat Information Center

Re-imagined Series definition: Chief Medical Officer; e.g. Major Sherman Cottle is Galactica's

Re-imagined Series definition: operating system on military and civilian ships exploited by the Cylons ^{(TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1")}

Re-imagined Series definition: Commanding Officer; e.g. William Adama

Re-imagined Series definition: generally related to the CIC station and related locations

Re-imagined Series definition: generally related to the CIC station and related locations

crew member handling electronic countermeasures of a craft; ECOs are standard crew aboard Raptors (see: ECO)

Re-imagined Series definition: high-energy electromagnetic radiation from binary stars is known to interfere with DRADIS (TRS: "The Captain's Hand")

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

used to refer to military personnel who are confirmed deceased during a military engagement, see: KIA ^{(TRS: "Sacrifice")}

used to refer to military personnel who are confirmed deceased during a military engagement, see: KIA ^{(TRS: "Sacrifice")}

Re-imagined Series definition: officer responsible for flight operations of either a battlestar or battlestar group

Re-imagined Series definition: a watch officer aboard a ship, when the CO or XO are off-station ^{(TRS: "Scattered")}

Re-imagined Series definition: directive to execute an order with alacrity, often used in a heated situation ^{(TRS: "Scattered", "Valley of Darkness")}

Re-imagined Series definition: directive to execute an order with alacrity, often used in a heated situation ^{(TRS: "Scattered", "Valley of Darkness")}

Re-imagined Series definition: the act of finding missing persons in the hopes of their rescue, see: SAR ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}

Re-imagined Series definition: distance measurement similar to "astronomical unit," speculated to stand for "solar unit" (TRS: "The Captain's Hand").

Re-imagined Series definition: Colonial equivalent of radio

Re-imagined Series definition: Colonial pilot jargon for a battlestar ^{(TRS: "Final Cut")}

Re-imagined Series definition: informal phonetic abbreviation for Lieutenant (LT) ^{(TRS: "Valley of Darkness", "Fragged")}

Re-imagined Series definition: five paragraph operation order, the standard format taught in basic training ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}

Re-imagined Series definition: initial skills training; can refer to basic military indoctrination, and arms and ground training ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}; and basic flight training ^{(TRS: "Miniseries")}

Re-imagined Series definition: power generator; Tyrol asked Cally to "find the genny" to power up the lights on Ragnar Anchorage ^{(TRS: "Miniseries")}

Re-imagined Series definition: one kilometer

Re-imagined Series definition: inoffensive slang for a mechanic or deckhand

Commander William Adama's nickname, used by officers aboard Galactica ^(TRS: "33")

Re-imagined Series definition: imaginary boundary within which a fighter can return to a landing bay within a given time ^(TRS: "33")

Re-imagined Series definition: "suspicious activity" ^{(TRS: "Scattered")}

Re-imagined Series definition: "situation report"

Re-imagined Series definition: radio code meaning "out of ammunition," analogous to modern-day NATO brevity code "winchester." Skosh is also a real-world NATO brevity term meaning "Aircraft is out of or unable to employ active radar missiles".^{(TRS: "The Captain's Hand")}

Re-imagined Series definition: engineering component of a battlestar's FTL drive ^{(TRS: "The Captain's Hand")}

Original Series definition: a term for a robot, such as Muffit II ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}

Re-imagined Series definition: battlestar landing bay mechanism that arrests a landing Viper, Raptor or other small craft ^{(TRS: "Final Cut")}

Re-imagined Series definition: designation for an extremely risky and hence voluntary mission ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I")}

Re-imagined Series definition: refueling and replenishment between ships away from dock, usually during flight. Taken from the contemporary term for the resupply of military vessels at sea while en route ^{(TRS: "Water", "Maelstrom")}

Re-imagined Series definition: nickname for Pegasus given by Galactica's crew (TRS: "The Captain's Hand")

Re-imagined Series definition: nickname for Galactica given by Pegasus' crew (TRS: "The Captain's Hand")

Re-imagined Series definition: slang for a Cylon Centurion ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}

Re-imagined Series definition: slang for a Cylon Centurion (TRS: "The Resistance")

Re-imagined Series definition: military term for personnel to form an ordered rank-and-file formation during ceremonies, derived from "dress right" and "cover down" ^{(TRS: "Pegasus")}

Re-imagined Series definition: crewmen on Colonial freighters (TRS: "Scattered, deleted scene")

Re-imagined Series definition: taking large risks; literally, rolling 2 threes with a pair of dice

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

Re-imagined Series definition: derogatory term for humanoid Cylons; homage to the movie Blade Runner ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}

 derogatory term for a prisoner in a labor camp ^{(TRS: "Bastille Day")}

Re-imagined Series definition: searching and destroying Cylons ^{(TRS: "Valley of Darkness")}

Re-imagined Series definition: visual indicator used in a battlestar's Instrument Landing System during a hands-on approach ^{(TRS: "Miniseries", "Act of Contrition", "Final Cut", "Black Market")}

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another