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