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This glossary defines common player terms and implementation terms used throughout the ''Galactic Empire'' wiki. A linked term leads to a fuller explanation; features specific to ge-next or ge-arena are identified where that distinction matters. GE often uses one word in ordinary messages and a different name for the underlying field or routine.

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! Term !! Meaning
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| [[Rotation and headings|Absolute heading]]|| Direction measured clockwise from galactic north, independent of the ship's current orientation.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Acceleration boosters|Acceleration boosters]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that doubles a ship's acceleration without raising its rated cruising speed.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Armor plating|Armor plating]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that reduces applicable incoming damage after class durability is applied.
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| [[Bearing]]|| Signed direction to an object relative to the observer's heading: positive to starboard, negative to port.
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| [[Btrieve]]|| Indexed record storage used for GE's persistent players, ships, planets, and mail; its keys also determine lookup and roster order.
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| [[Ship inventory#Cargo capacity|Cargo weight]]|| Total weight of a ship's carried items, used when checking available cargo capacity.
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| [[Cash]]|| A player's spendable currency; distinct from a planet's operating cash and tax bank.
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| [[Centock]]|| Traditional approximate short game interval; up to six seconds.
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| [[Cloaking]]|| Ship concealment system that affects detection and some combat interactions.
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| [[Combat#Damage and the combat timer|Combat timer]]|| Hostility delay that temporarily prevents an ordinary exit and can affect maintenance; tracked by <code>cantexit</code>.
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| [[Cybertrons|Cyber-Base]]|| Powerful stationary Cybertron class; an NPC ship rather than an owned planet.
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| [[Cybertrons|Cybertron]]|| Automated hostile ship type with its own classes and behavior.
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| [[Maintenance#Passive damage control|Damage control]]|| Ship capability affecting repair information and recovery from system damage.
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| [[DAMF]]|| Ship-class damage factor used in several damage calculations.
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| [[Decoys|Decoy]]|| Deployable countermeasure intended to distract or absorb incoming guided weapons.
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| [[Droids|Droid]]|| Automated ship category other than Cybertrons. ("Droid" is the term used in the source code, not displayed to a player.)
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| [[Enforcer Planet]]|| Galactic Command planet responsible for neutral-zone warnings and punishment.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Enhanced damage control|Enhanced damage control]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that increases passive repair speed and adds repair-time estimates to reports.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Enhanced lock|Enhanced lock]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that reports selected actions of a ship held under an active scanner lock.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Enhanced scanners|Enhanced scanners]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that adds additional information to eligible scans.
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| [[Droids#Factions and distress in ge-next|Faction]]|| Ship-class allegiance used in automated-ship hostility and friendly-fire rules (ge-next only).
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| [[Attacking planets#Fighter assault|Fighter]]|| Planetary defense item that can also be used in fighter attacks by eligible ships.
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| [[Combat#Kill credit, scoring, and salvage|Flotsam]]|| Cargo recovered after a ship is destroyed; not everything aboard the wreck can be collected.
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| [[Flux]]|| Energy in a ship's active neutron flux pile, consumed by propulsion and ship systems.
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| [[Flux pod]]|| Carried item that can replenish the active flux pile.
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| [[Planetary production|Food]]|| Planetary supply consumed by troops (and men in ge-next).
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| [[Rotation and headings|Galactic heading]]|| Absolute compass direction: 0 north, 90 east, 180 south, 270 west.
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| [[Galactic perimeter]]|| Outer boundary that wraps a ship or repels and damages it, according to <code>UNIVWRAP</code>.
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| [[Gold]]|| Cargo commodity used in trade and planetary economy; the objective in ge-arena Hoard.
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| [[Bearing#A scanned ship's heading|Heading]]|| In a ship scan, the target's orientation relative to the line back toward the observer: about 0 means facing the observer; about 180 means facing away. Not an absolute galactic heading.
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| [[Hyper-phasers|Hyper-phaser]]|| Ship phaser used while traveling in hyperspace that only hits other ships in hyperspace.
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| [[Impulse travel|Impulse]]|| Travel below warp 1.00, including the displayed 0.00–0.99 speed range.
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| [[Ion cannons|Ion cannon]]|| Planetary defensive weapon installed and fired from a planet.
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| [[Jamming|Jammer]]|| Carried electronic-warfare item that interferes with enemy scans and targeting.
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| [[Jettison command|Jettison]]|| Discard carried items from a ship, usually to free cargo space; the discarded goods are not transferred to a planet.
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| [[Kill credit#When credit is decided|Lastfired]]|| Ship state recording the most recent qualifying attacker for possible kill credit; it does not necessarily identify the hit that first caused fatal damage.
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| [[Locks|Lock]]|| Tracked live target used by scans and guided weapons.
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| [[Maintenance]]|| Repair service and process for a ship in stationary orbit, subject to combat restrictions.
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| [[Planetary production|Men]]|| Colonist population that can reproduce, produce goods, and contribute to taxes and scoring.
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| [[Mines|Mine]]|| Deployed explosive that remains at a location until its timer expires or it detonates.
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| [[Missiles|Missile]]|| Guided projectile weapon used in hyperspace.
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| [[Nebulas|Nebula]]|| A sector type that reduces visibility; added in ge-next.
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| [[Neutral zone]]|| Sector <code>0 0</code>, normally subject to Enforcer Planet weapon restrictions.
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| [[Orbit]]|| Stationary position around a planet required for several planetary interactions.
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| [[Warp travel#Overspeed|Overspeed]]|| Travel above a ship class's rated cruising warp, with risks and penalties that differ between classic and ge-next.
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| [[Distance unit|Parsec]]|| Classic GE's displayed distance unit.
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| [[Phasers|Phaser]]|| Rechargeable directed-energy ship weapon.
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| [[Phasers#Firing arc and spread|Phaser spread]]|| Width of a standard phaser's firing arc; spreading the beam farther weakens a hit.
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| [[Planetary production#Cash spent and funded bonus|Planetary bank]]|| Cash held by a planet for its own production and trade, separate from the owner's personal cash and the tax bank.
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| [[Planetary update cycle|Production pass]]|| One scheduled application of <code>multiply()</code> to a planet; ge-next can replay missed passes after downtime.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Reinforced neutron core|Reinforced neutron core]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that reduces the warp engine damage accumulated during overspeed travel.
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| [[Report command|Report]]|| Command family that displays a ship's navigation, systems, cargo, and other status information.
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| [[Ge-arena#Playing and resupplying|Respawn]]|| Return to play with a new match-local ship after destruction in ge-arena; not part of persistent classic GE or ge-next.
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| [[Roster command|Roster]]|| Player ranking display: based on accumulated score in persistent GE, and on recorded match wins in ge-arena.
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| [[Scan command|Scan]]|| Command family used to discover objects and inspect ships, sectors, planets, and ranges.
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| [[Scantab#How letters are used|Scan letter]]|| Temporary letter identifying a visible ship on a player's scanner display; not the ship's permanent number or active slot.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Scan range boost|Scan range boost]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that doubles a ship's effective scanner range without bypassing concealment rules.
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| [[Scan command#Scanner range and the scantab|Scanner range]]|| Effective detection reach of a ship's scanners; distinct from the scale chosen for a particular scan display.
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| [[Scantab]]|| Each player's temporary mapping from scan letters to current ship slots.
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| [[Scoring and rosters|Score]]|| Persistent points accumulated through combat, planets, and other configured scoring events.
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| [[Sector]]|| 10,000-by-10,000-[[Distance unit|distance-unit]] square identified by signed galactic X/Y coordinates.
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| [[Self-destruct]]|| Deliberate destruction of one's own ship after a countdown, producing a blast that can damage nearby ships.
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| [[Shields|Shield]]|| Defensive ship system that absorbs or reduces suitable incoming hits.
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| [[Ship class configuration|Ship class]]|| Configured ship type defining limits, movement, systems, and other class properties.
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| [[Ship number]]|| Owner-scoped identifier of a persistent ship record; not its active slot or list position.
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| [[Ship slot]]|| Reusable in-memory position holding one active player or automated ship.
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| [[Ship upgrades|Ship upgrade]]|| Optional improvement installed on an individual ship in ge-next; classic GE has no upgrade system.
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| [[Spies]]|| Agents carried by ships and deployed to gather planetary intelligence; spies stocked on a planet provide counterespionage.
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| [[Ge-arena#Staging and ship selection|Staging]]|| ge-arena's pre-match minute for choosing a ship and preparing in sector 0 0 before combat begins.
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| [[Distance unit|Subsector]]|| ge-next's displayed distance unit.
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| [[Tahanian Station]]|| Galactic Command station in sector 0 0 for colonists, troops, and food; ge-arena lobby setting.
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| [[Taxes|Tax]]|| Revenue collected from an owned planet's population into a separate tax balance.
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| [[Taxes#Revenue and collection|Tax bank]]|| Taxes accumulated on an owned planet for later collection by its owner, separate from its operating cash.
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| [[Teams|Team]]|| Player association with shared team state and communication in persistent GE play.
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| [[Torpedoes|Torpedo]]|| Guided projectile weapon used at impulse speeds.
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| [[Ship upgrades#Transponder control|Transponder control]]|| ge-next ship upgrade that adjusts how many Cybertrons may pursue the ship at once.
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| [[Attacking planets#Troop assault|Troops]]|| Soldiers defending a planet against invasion and revolt; also carried for troop attacks.
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| [[Data structures|User record]]|| Persistent player data, including settings, cash, score, and ownership counters.
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| [[Warp travel|Warp]]|| Hyperspace travel at displayed speed 1.00 or higher.
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| [[Planet administration#3. Set work assignments and trade policy|Work allocation]]|| Percentage of a planet's workforce assigned to each production category.
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| [[Wormholes|Wormhole]]|| Paired feature that moves a ship between distant sectors.
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| [[Zippers|Zipper]]|| Carried device that triggers nearby mines to detonate on the next mine update; it does not move the ship.
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| [[Zygor]]|| Galactic Command's principal planet in sector <code>0 0</code>.
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See [[Coordinate system]] for sector coordinates and bearings, [[Game timing]] for the different meanings of a "tick," and [[Data structures]] for the records behind several implementation terms.

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