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Here you can look up what various terms used by the cosmoteer community mean.

Dictionary

Name	Type	Definiton	Example/More Information
Alpha	Archetype	The burst potential of a part.	This word is most commonly used when describing something with a lot of immediate potential but low or even no sustainability. Example: An Alpha railfan does not supply its rails with power or ammo to purely focus on damage. Alpha boost is used to quickly enter a fight without needing to worry about resupply routes. Alpha CG by Plaus, also uses alpha boost
Armor Weaving	Ship Architecture	Arranging 2x1 armor in a brick-like formation.	This is done to increase the effective health of a ship’s armor by spreading damage.
Avoider	Archetype	An omni thrust ship designed to strafe or kite around the enemies.	Eidolon by Saris, probably the most iconic avoider The classical version of this build uses different shields, blasters and eb.
Barge	Archetype	Forwards-backwards Bi-thrust ship. Also known as a cruiser.	Fossil by Nick Mostly used for long HE missile ships.
Bi-Thrust / Linear Thrust	Thrust type	A thrust setup characterized by having similar or the same thrust in two directions.
Brick	Archetype	A ship with a lot of armor.	Blob Fish by Plaus
Broadsider	Archetype	A ship with most or all of its weapons on its sides that is designed to face an opponent with its sides.	Armageddon by Twrecks Generally considered a very weak ship type.
Bumper	Ship Archetecture	Structure that prevents your opponent from entering the large shield radius.	Often seen on light ships like orbiter walls or UL nuke orbiters.
Bunker	Archetype	Very compact and tanky ship
Cruiser	Archetype	Forwards-backwards Bi-thrust ship. Also known as a barge.	Melty by Quiximo For example, the ion cruiser is a very iconic ship type.
Detach	Ship Architecture	Using explosive charges to remove part of your own ship, for reasons like speed gain by shedding weight.
Duel	Game Etiquette	A 1v1 battle between players with the expectation that other players don't get involved.
Feathering	Piloting Technique	Preserving thrust rampup.	Done by tapping the turn keys while holding the forward key in order to keep as much thrust ramped up as possible. This is basically required to effectively pilot mono thrust ships.
Fastwall	Archetype	Outdated term for avoider.
Horn	Ship Architecture	Long structure that extends from a ship designed to manipulate the movement of other ships during a ram.	A horn on a TB rail used to avoid ram locks TB rail sometimes use horns in order to prevent a ramlock
Hybrid	Archetype	Merge of 2 archetypes using different main weapons.
Interceptor	Archetype	Fast and small ship with decent firepower.	Designed to flank, capture points in Domination and attack fragile high value targets.
Ion core	Ship Architecture	A group of ion beam emitters and ion beam prisms arranged in a beneficial way.
Kite	Archetype	A mono thrust ship designed to utilize its speed and range to keep enemies away while firing.	A basic rail kite by Plaus
Locking	Design Trick	Creating a stable connection between 2 different ships	Lighning Thunder by Blaze, a UL locking morbiter The method allowing for a consistent and stable combining of separate ships works by exploiting a flaw in the game's collision detection algorithm that occurs when a ship is moving from 15-21 m/s. For more information check locking.
Mobile Spinner Fort	Archetype	A Spinner with an internal ship to move it around.	Exterminators Halo by Nick
Mono Ship	Archetype	A singular ship.
Mono Thrust	Thrust Type	A thrust setup characterized by most or all of the thrust pointing in a single direction.
Morbiter	Archetype	A Missile Orbiter.	[Insert generic Morbiter] by Plaus
Nuke Flinging	Piloting technique	Rotating your ship in order to impart your ships rotational energy into a nuke's directional velocity.	A common strategy for UL nuke orbiters
Omni Thrust	Thrust Type	A thrust setup characterized by having similar or the same power in all directions.
Orbiter	Archetype	A Mono thrust ship designed to circle around another ship.
Preload	Design Trick	Setting Launchers to a different missile type than what is supplied	EMP preload This is done to have one volley of a different missile type before using the main ammo type.
Pretasking	Logistics	A logistics trick where crew supplying a low priority part can be rerouted to supply a higher priority part.	Most often used to increase large shield uptime.
Railfan	Archetype	A heavily armored railgun ship.	Necrologist by Kine Some people call any kind of railgun ship a rail fan.
Railfanning	Piloting Technique	Focusing railgun fire in one spot.	You achieve this by setting your rails to fire at target and targeting one spot, then rotating your ship so all of the rails hit one spot.
Ramlock	Piloting Technique	Ramming the opponent in such a way that they can not escape the ship contact.	Commonly assisted by ramming hooks and utilized by rammers.
Ramming Hooks	Ship Architecture	2 symmetrically arranged horns designed to keep opponents in a ramlock
Spinner	Archetype	A ship designed to spin.	Gensokyo Millenium History of the Moon by Slowking The main advantage of spinners is their ability to spread damage and be durable from every direction. The most common spinner armament is rails
Stick	Archetype	Long and thin ship.	Often carries launcher weapons.
Stunlocking	Piloting Technique	Keeping an enemy in a perpetual state of being unable to do any meaningfull actions without killing it.	This can be achieved by repeatedly hitting the enemies command rooms with EMP.
Rammer	Archetype	A Mono thrust ship designed to ram opponents, most often using Ions or Deck Cannons and making use of hooks.	Fion by Luna, an iconic ion rammer
Scout	Archetype	A small, light and at most very lightly armed ship	Small scout for domination Used to provide vision and capture unoccupied points in Domination.
Spaced Armor	Ship Architecture	Using 1x1 armor wedges.	This is done in order to achieve higher penetration resistance
Splitter	Archetype	A Mono ship that can split into a set of traps or a swarm.	Frog fish by Plaus
Structure cage	Ship Architecture	Structure that prevents your opponent from entering the large shield radius.	Often used on very light ships like orbiter walls or UL nuke orbiters
Squib	Archetype	A small ultra light ship with minimal firepower and no defensive parts.
Swarm	Archetype	A set of 6 or more ships.
Traps	Archetype	A set of 2 to 5 ships.
Tri-Thrust	Thruster Type	A thrust setup characterized by having thrust in three directions.
Ultralight	Archetype	A ship designed to minimize weight by using no armor and significantly limiting the amount of corridors/walkways.	Many people use this word to simply describe light ships that even have armor
Uptime	Logistics	A description of how well a part is supplied with resources.	Example: Your shields having good uptime means they regenerate quickly. Your thrust having bad uptime means that it flickers and isnt working at full capacity.
Wall	Archetype	A very wide ship with a large amount of surface area dedicated to weapons.	Canwall by Plaus, A standard cannon orbiter wall There are multiple types like orbiter walls, cruiser walls and Avoiders.
Waste Ship	Archetype	A ship designed to be as cheap and expendable as possible.	A standard 4 LC waste ship for domination Such ships often have no reactors or additional ammo storage and are commonly used in domination.

Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Meaning	Elaboration
Amp (pump)	Aplification (pump)
APM	Actions per minute	A messure of how fast one is able to give ship commands. The term comes from the real time strategy game genre.
CR	Control Room	Used for any part that produces command points.
CG	Chaingun
DC	Deck Cannon or Direct Control
Dom	Domination
DPS	Damage per second	Indicates how much damage something deos over a period of time.
EB	Disruptor	From the old name of the weapon - electro bolter
ER	Engine Room
FE	Fire Extinguisher
HT	Huge Thruster
LC	Large Cannon
LR	Large Reactor
LS	Large Shield
OMW	On my way	Used when playing pvp duels to announce an attack.
PWO	Ping when open	Used to ask someone to notify them once the currently running game is open again.
ML	Mining Laser
MR	Medium Rector
MRT	Modular Rocket Thruster
MSF	Mobile Spinner Fort
OC	Overclock
PD	Point Defense
ROD	Ring of death	The red ring that marks a zone that deals damage in the elimination game mode.
RTS	Real Time Strategy	The default way to pilot your ship using movement controls. This term comes from the simularity in controls to games in the real time strategy genre.
SC	Small Cannon
SR	Small Reactor
SS	Small Shield
TB	Tractor Beam
TBR	Tractor Beam Railgun Ship	A popular pvp ship archetype
TRL	Thermal Resonance Beam
UL	Ultralight