This is to help new people learn what the normal Space Odyssey abbrevations stand for. If you can think of others please PM me so I may add them, and please lets keep them to the most commonly seen.
SO is a common referance to the game Space Odyssey
TOS is a common referance to Terms of Service
BH is common for Black Hole encounter
GT is common for Gold Transport encounter
EP is common for Endangered Planet encounter
SN is common for Super Nova encoutner
AC is common for Ancient Commander encounter
Bio is common for Bio experiment encounter
DL is common to describe a Derlictmother ship
MS is common to describe a mothership missions
Gal M or G C is common to describe galaxy missions or Encryption missions
SAB is a common to describe Secrect Astroid Base
BL is common referance to the Bounty list
TH is a common referance to the Teufel Hunden alliance
AL is a common referance to the Aeternal Light alliance
AOF is a common refrance to the Annihilation of Faith alliance
FA is a common referance to the Forgotten Ancients alliance
SD is a common referance to the Skums Dump alliance
DDD is a common referance to the Dooms Day Defenders alliance
ddd is a common referance to the Doom Day defense alliance
ML is a common referance to the Murphy's Law alliance
NAW is a common referance to the New Age Warriors alliance
UEA is a common referance to United Earth Alliance Reborn alliance
ABS Is a common referance to absorb power or Sheild strength
Acc or ACU is common referance to accuracy
HP is common for Hitpoints
A is common for attack power
D is common for Defense power
it is also common to request the A/ D/ HP ratio of a ship which is most of the time stated as 1:0.10:2 or some such number much of the time it is only A/ HP that is requested stated as 1:2 commonlyneb a common term to describe the protective nebula
PShip a common term to describe a small cheap heavy armed ship designed to give massive amounts of power for its size and cost but designed to die at first contact in order to protect the mother ship and mission ships by causing you to go into a protective neb
Swarmers - Cheap ships with HP and high attack, mostly around 2500 to 5000. Used to kill strong ships.
Pswarmer - Almost the same a Pships but have low HP instead of none and slight amount of ABS and ACU (around 10% or so) .
Tinyman - (obselete) Ship with 3/4/5 space and systems that cost around a mill or more each. So create a very expensive ships that gets an enormous swarm bonus.
Missionsships/ Strong Ships/ Main Ship/ Tanks/ Super Ships - The ships you do missions with and stuff, that are not a swarm ship these ships are designed to stand alone in a fleet.
These listed alliances are those that have been around for a long time or have gained much recognition lately. please dont get upset if I have not mentioned your alliance name here, and if you have more please PM me so I may add them here and other suggestions for this post.
and Thanks to Malice for proof reading this post
Thanks basill for additional definitions
