Technical Terms

Starships and Vehicles— Technical Terms (for fluff and fun)

• Activation Matrix: The bit of the hyperdrive that makes it go so darn fast.
• Agitator Bearings: Necessary for repulsorlift operation on gas giants. Adjustible.
• Alluvial dampers: Keeps the ship from shaking itself apart at high speeds.
• Amicron Mix: Acts as a radiation soak, and is used to shield any system that leaks dangerous radiation. Should be changed fairly often.
• Anion Discharge System: How the ship gets rid of ion drive by-products.
• Antioxidant Induction Fluid: Keeps the Activation Matrix from covering itself with a thick rustlike layer which prevents hyperdrive use. (Caution: Do not drink!)
• Balance Turbines: Distributes repulsorlift field energy evenly around the craft.
• Brath Bearing Brackets: Allow smooths rapid turns on speederbikes.
• Central Computer System: What it says.
• Cephalaph Shielding: A waxy grey insulant used to protect the other systems from the ship's power plant emissions.
• Comm unit: Pretty obvious, isn't it?
• Computer Control Circuits: Enables the computer to activate and deactivate ship's systems.
• Computer Feedback Circuits: Keeps computer aware of the status of the various systems.
• Drive Compensator: a device used to counterbalance to effects of the drive.
• Drive Compensator Fusion Coil: The central (and, consequently, the most expensive) part of the fusion engine, which provides power to the ship.
• Ethereal Rudder: Directional control in starfighters.
• Fission Charger: a device used to recharge fuel cells.
• Frigidon Mix: Very cold fluid. Passed through certain systems in partially insulated tubes to keep them from overheating. Also poured on things to make them more brittle.
• Fuel Cells: Containers of fusable material designed to be used by the power plants. Burnt out fuel cells can be recycled, or recharged through a fission charger.
• Fuel Converters: Since most ships have reactionless drives, fuel converters would be quite uncommon. If your ship has one, and it blows, you've got a major problem on your hands.
• Horizontal boosters: Thrusters used to provide lateral movement. Also known as lateral thrusters.
• Hyperdrive: That which makes the ship go past light speed. Duh.
• Hyperspace Compass: A heading indicator. Like a compass, it measures your direction of travel.
• Inertial Dampers: Keeps the crew from getting that chunky salsa look when the ship makes a fast turn.
• Interphase Transducers: Converts energy from the powerplants into a form usable by the hyperdrive.
• Ion Piston: Ion engine part.
• Jehltekk Enhancer Valve: Component of a repulsorlift maneuvering system.
• Microimpact Dampers: Keep the ships drive systems from jolting themselves out of alignment.
• Power Couplings: A power coupling transfers energy from one circuit into another.
• Power Plant: Source of energy for all ships systems.
• Quad Power Cyclers: power cyclers for speeder craft.
• Sliverfoils: Ion engine component.
• Reactant Agitator Injector: Fuel injecton? Probably some form of catalyst for the engines.
• Repulsorlift generator: Generates the repulsorlift field. Repulsorcoils.
• Repulsor Modulator: Accelerator?
• Servo-bracket: Available in any landspeeder, brackets the servos.
• Synthion Foam: Insulates, reduces emissions, and holds things together in a pinch.
• Thersop Ambulator: Skiff tiller control component.
• Trianolubricant fluid: Keeps ion drives from overheating.
• Trianolubricant Injection System: Keeps those ion drives swimming.
• Turbothrust Converter Coils: Expressed in sizes V-5 to V-12.

DD sent these to me in an Email, and originally compiled these.

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