Blackjacket's Dictionary
quaternary weaponry: Among heavy infantry, who use the M-70 Havoc combat exoskeleton, there are three official categories of weaponry: * primary weaponry: the heavy tribarrel, flamer, and target designator built into the exoskeleton; * secondary weaponry: additional hardpoint-mounted weapons provided by a modular weapons back, such as the BP-400 Conflagration; * tertiary weaponry:
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pennant number: The Imperial Navy’s best attempt at a general purpose identification code for ships, other means having proven inadequate. It is generally held that the true identifier of a ship is its name: that is, after all, what is written upon the hull, and with it travels the
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combat instrumentation and logging module (CILM): Part of the standard military-basic biomod package, the combat instrumentation and logging module is an enhanced lifelogger, recording tagged sensory recordings as well as physiological information, armor, weapon, and equipment telemetry, and tactical mesh status. The data recorded by the CILM is used to
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shrieker: (also ping-pedo) a single-shot directional EM pulse generator mounted in a capsule suitable for mass driver deployment. It is a truism of tactics that active sensors, while much more effective than passive sensors, can rarely be used since they are even more effective at disclosing the user’s position