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|A line across a fighter's wings, based on an imaginary clock in which 12 is ahead of a fighter and 6 is behind. The goal of dogfighting is to keep bandits in front of one's 3-9 line.
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|ACM
|Aerial Combat Maneuvering, better known as dogfighting.
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|Bandit
|A hostile fighter or starship.
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|Big L
|Lightspeed barrier.
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|Bingo
|Having enough fuel for a safe return.
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|Bird
|Spaceship.
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|Bluelined
|Disabled by an ion cannon blast.
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|Blue milk run
|An easy hop, an ordinary and uneventful mission.
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|Bogey
|An unidentified fighter or starship.
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|Bone
|A Y-Wing fighter
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|Bright
|A TIE/Advanced fighter.
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|Bumping
|Engaging in ACM.
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|Burn sky until we see lines
|Fly until you get into hyperspace.
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|Burnout
|Spacer slang referring the loss of power in a starship's power plants.
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|Cargo hold
|Spacers' slang for backside, bottom.
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|Centurion
|A pilot with one hundred landings on a carrier or fighter base.
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|Check your 6
|"Be careful, watch out behind you."
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|Clear skies
|"Be well," a traditional spacer's farewell.
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|Clutch
|A squadron of TIE fighters.
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|Cold nose
|Operating with sensors down.
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|Connecting the navpoints
|A comprehensive attempt at illustration or explanation of a subject.
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|DIE-wing
|A TIE-Wing Ugly, referring to its alarmingly low combat survivability.
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|Dirt flier
|An atmospheric fighter pilot.
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|Dirtside
|On a planet's surface.
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|Dragship
|An Interdictor-class cruiser.
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|Drift factor
|A measure of a pilot's flakiness or inability to follow orders.
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|Drunken Mynock School of Instruction
|The place where one with minimal piloting skills might have bought his or her pilot's license.
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Dupe A TIE Bomber
Easy chair The pilot's seat in a fighter.
Edge An A-Wing fighter.
Eyeball A basic TIE fighter. Often shortened to simply eye.
Fangs out Eager for a dogfight.
Few starships short of a fleet Insane.
Final Jump A euphemism for death, used by spacers.
Flat-hatting Showing off or engaging in dangerous maneuvres.
Flyboy A starfighter pilot.
Flying the same vector Thinking along the same lines.
FTL Faster than light.
Full DSW Having enough power for drive, shields, and weapons.
Furball A hectic dogfight.
G-burp Spacer slang for a sudden surge from a starship's drive system.
Gain angles Maneuvre for a better shot in a dogfight.
Get lines Disengage and jump to hyperspace.
Go black Head from a planet's atmosphere into space.
Go blue Head from space into a planet's atmosphere.
Goes away What an enemy fighter does when you hit it.
Gripe A mechanical problem. An up gripe is a problem that allows continuing operations; a down gripe does not.
Hangar queen A fighter that is often unable to fly because it needs repairs, and thus is raided for parts.
Hawk circle A formation of fighters waiting to land.
Hop A mission.
How do you plot that course? A phrase meaning "how did you come to that conclusion?"
HUD Heads-up display.
Impstar An Imperial Star Destroyer.
Judy Comms call indicating you are intercepting a bandit.
Klick Kilometer.
KM "Kriffing magic," a pilot's all-purpose explanation for how technology works.
Latch Get into position to destroy an enemy fighter.
Loud handle The lever that triggers a fighter's ejection seat.
LTS "Likely to survive," indicating approval of a pilot's skills.
No d�cor "Speak freely," without worrying about rank.
Old Spaceman's Home Retirement; to a spacer.
Painted Scanned by sensors.
Peeper A TIE fighter used for reconnaissance.
Pointer An X-Wing fighter.
Punching up a jump Spacer's slang describing the act of entering coordinates into a navigation computer prior to making the jump to lightspeed.
Raising ship Spacer's slang for leaving a planet in a starship or the act of lifting off.
Roof A carrier's flight deck.
Reading the g's Term used by fighter pilots in reference to dialing down an inertial compensator to get a tactile feel for the movements of their ships.
Rocketjock A starfighter pilot.
SA Situational awareness.
SD Vic A Victory-class Star Destroyer
Senth Herf An admiring assessment of another pilot's abilities.
Set-down Spacers' slang for the act of landing a starship.
Shock To hit a bandit with a blast from an ion cannon.
Shocker An ion cannon.
The Show ACM; dogfighting.
Skull A Z-95 Headhunter.
Skyboy A term used to address starfighter pilots.
Slim A RZ-1 A-Wing interceptor.
Snubfighter Small spacecraft like X-wings or TIE Fighters that are seen as expendable.
Spacer An individual who lives most of his or her life in space.
Spinner A B-Wing fighter, also known as a cross.
Splash Shoot down.
Squint A TIE/ln Interceptor.
Star-hopper Another term for spacer.
Suicide sled A starfighter, particularly one with weak shield.
Trip A TIE Defender.
Ugly A starfighter made from parts of varying origins.
Vape or vap Short for "vaporize." Starfighter pilot slang for destroying a target, especially in a dogfight.
Vapebait A poorly skilled fighter pilot who is an easy target.
Victim A Victory-class Star Destroyer.
Warp-lagged Spacer's slang for the feeling of tiredness after traveling in hyperspace.
Wishbone A BTL Y-Wing starfighter.
Woke up on the wrong side of the starship Spacer's slang for feeling grumpy, irritable, or to be easily annoyed.
Zero angle The position behind the stern of a bandit.
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