List of terms (RDM)

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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)
  • LSO: Landing Signal Officer
  • OOD: Officer of the Deck (Scattered)
  • RFN: Right Frakking Now (Valley of Darkness)
  • SAR: Search and Rescue (Fragged)
  • XO: Executive Officer

Military Jargon

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