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| 6DOF | Six (6) degrees of freedom |
| A/B | Afterburners |
| ACM | Advanced Campaign Mode |
| AD | Advanced |
| ADR | Area Defense Radar |
| ADS | Area Defense Shield |
| ADT | Area Defense Turret |
| AE | Alter Ego (The Player) |
| AFM | Assault Force Marine |
| AG | Agricultural |
| AGL | Above Ground Level |
| AHS | Altitude Hold System |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AID | Altitude Information Display |
| AIR | Air (TACSCAN filter) |
| ALS | Auxiliary Life Support status |
| A/P | Autopilot |
| APC | Armored Personnel Carrier |
| APN | All Purpose Naval |
| APM | All Purpose Missile |
| ASD | Alert Status Display |
| ASL | Above Sea Level |
| ASL | Advanced Seeker Logic |
| ASS | Assassin |
| ASSET | The craft/vehicle you are controlling |
| ATA | Air to Air |
| ATS | Air to Surface |
| ATL | Automatic Tracking Logic |
| ATL/V | Automatic Tracking Logic with video |
| ATV | All Terrain Vehicle |
| AUTOARM | Automatically Arm fighter |
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| BA | Bombing Accuracy |
| BC | Battlecruiser |
| BLK | Blackhole |
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| CAB | Combat Assault Buggy |
| CALS | Computer Assisted Landing System |
| CAP | Combat Air Patrol |
| CAS | Close Air Support |
| CAS | Combat Alert Status |
| CAV | Combat Assault Vehicle |
| CC | Command Craft |
| CE | Chief Engineer |
| CK | Combat Kills |
| CLK | Cloaking System Status |
| CM | Combat Missions |
| CMDR | Commander |
| CMO | Communications Officer |
| CO | Combat officer |
| COL | Colonist |
| COM | Commercial |
| COM | Communications computer status |
| COMMLINK | Communications link |
| COMMS | Communications |
| CRE | Credian |
| CREW | Display Craft's crew |
| CRI | Criminal |
| CSD | Crew Status Display |
| CSM | Command Status Menu |
| CTL | Continuous Tracking Logic |
| C&C | Command and Control |
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| DF | Dog Fighting |
| DIE | Darklight Image Enhancer |
| DIP | Diplomat |
| DJP | Dimension Jump Pad |
| DRO | Droidan |
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| EAI | Egress Altitude Indicator |
| EAR | Earth Command |
| ECM | Engineering Corps Marine |
| EF | Elite Force |
| EFM | Elite Force Marine |
| EFP | Elite Force Pilot |
| EM | Electromagnetic |
| EMD | Electromagnetic Disruptor |
| EMP | Empirian |
| ENG | Engine status |
| ENM | Enhanced Navigation Module |
| EP | Experience Points |
| EVM | Enhanced View Mode |
| EWR | Early Warning Radar |
| EXP | Experience |
| EXP | Explorer |
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| FAL | Falkyrie |
| FATAL | Fast Target Acquisition & Lock |
| FC | Fighter Craft |
| FE | Flight Engineer |
| FF | Fatigue Factor |
| FLX | Fluxfield |
| FLOAT | Craft has landed on water |
| FMT | Friendly Marine Troops |
| FO | Flight officer |
| FP | First Person |
| FPA | Flight path Altitude |
| FPI | First Person Item |
| FPI | Flight Path Indicator |
| FPW | First Person Weapon |
| FPV | Flight Path Vector |
| FTOL | Forward Take Off & Landing |
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| GAL | Galaxian |
| GALCOM | Galactic Command |
| GAM | Gammulan |
| GND | Ground (TACSCAN filter) |
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| H/A | Hull Armor |
| HAC | Hacker |
| HAG | Heavy Assault Gunship |
| HALT | Halt and await orders |
| HAV | Heavy Assault Vehicle |
| HF | Hunger Factor |
| HJ | Hyper-Jump |
| HMT | Hostile Marine Troops |
| HSD | Hyperion Sub-space Device |
| HT | High Technology |
| HUD | Heads Up Display |
| HULL | Hull Status |
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| IA | Instant Action |
| IC | Interceptor |
| IFF | Identify Friend or foe |
| INCOM | Intergalactic Communications |
| ILD | Inbound Launch Display |
| INS | Insurgent |
| IOD | Ion Disrupter |
| ITD | Integrated Tactical Display |
| IVM | Inverse view mode |
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| JAC | Just Another Cyborg |
| JMP | Jump Point |
| JOU | Journalist |
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| KAN | Kandorian |
| KIA | Killed In Action |
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| LAG | Light Assault Gunship |
| LAS | Photon Laser Array Status |
| LAUNCH | Launch if ready |
| LAV | Light Assault Vehicle |
| LCK | Hostile Missile lock |
| LF | Life Factor |
| LNH | Hostile Missile Launch |
| LOC | Location |
| LOCK | MTI Missile Target Lock |
| LOG | Logistix Computer Status |
| LOGISTIX | Logistix Computer |
| LP | Launch Pad |
| LTA | Laser Target Acquisition |
| LTD | Laser Target Designator |
| LWI | Launch Warning Indicators |
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| MAN | Mandorian |
| MAP | Navigation map |
| MCM | Medical Corps Marine |
| MBASE | Military Base |
| MER | Mercenary |
| MI | Mobile Infantry |
| MIA | Missing In Action |
| MIL | Military |
| MIM | Mobile Infantry Marine |
| MIN | Mine Bay status |
| MLS | Missile Launch System |
| MLS | Main Life Support Status |
| MN | Minerals |
| MNC | Main Computer status |
| MO | Medical Officer |
| MP | MultiPlayer |
| MSL | Maximum System Level (Max Altitude for Planetary Craft) |
| MTAR | Missile Target Acquisition Reticule |
| MTD | Missile Tracking Designator |
| MTI | Missile Tracking Indicator |
| MUL | Multinational Object |
| MZ | Mission Zone |
| MZONE | Mission Zone |
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| NAV | Navitron Computer status |
| NAVITRON | Navitron Computer |
| NAVSCAN | Navigational Scan mode for probes |
| NB | Naval Base |
| NBASE | Naval Base |
| NID | Navigation Information Display |
| NO | Navigation Officer |
| NPC | Non-Player Character |
| NRE | Nuclear Reactor Status |
| NTD | Navigation Target Designator |
| NTD | Navigation Tracking Designator |
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| OC | Other Craft (Ground Vehicles) |
| ODS | Orbital Defense System |
| ODSML | Orbital Defense System Missile Logic |
| OPR | Operational status |
| ORB | Celestial Orb |
| ORDERS | Tactical orders menu |
| OTS | Orbit to Surface |
| O2 | Oxygen level |
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| PAD | Phased Array Ion Disrupter |
| PAR | Paramedic |
| PERSCAN | Personnel Scan |
| PLS | Probe Link System |
| PLV | Priority List Viewer |
| POL | Police |
| PRL | Personal Rocket Launcher |
| PRO | Probe Bay status |
| PS | Planetary Support |
| PSM | Planetary Scan Mode |
| PSP | Planetary Support Pilot |
| PSS | Power Systems Status (VDD on the ITD) |
| PSS | Portable Supply Station (First Person Item) |
| PSU | Portable Shield Unit |
| PTA | Passive Target Acquisition |
| PWA | Primary Weapons Array |
| PWR | Power Level (weapons) |
| PZ | Patrol Zone |
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| RAI | Raider |
| RANDOM | Random Access Nuclear Disrupter for Obsolete Matter |
| RCU | Radiation Control Unit |
| RE | Research Engineer |
| REC | Reactor Core status |
| RELEASE | Release person from MEDIBAY |
| RFM | Recon Force Marine |
| RITL/V | Redundant Independent Tracking Logic with Video |
| RLI | Radiation Level Indicator |
| RO | Robotics |
| ROSTER | Personal and crew status system |
| RTB | Return to Base |
| RTFM | Read The Fine Manual |
| RTM | Radar Target Mask |
| R/R | Retro Rockets |
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| SAD | Search and Destroy |
| SAL | Surface to Air Laser |
| SAM | Surface to Air Missile |
| SAS | Ship Alert Status |
| SB | Star Base |
| SBASE | Star Base |
| SC | Shuttle Craft |
| SCI | Scientist |
| SDM | Station Defense Missile |
| SE | Systems Engineer |
| SEAD | Suppress Enemy Air Defenses |
| SETPOS | Set Position (Setting Waypoints in the TRS) |
| SF | Space force |
| SFM | Space Force Marine |
| SHD | Shield status |
| SHI | Ship heading indicator |
| SINK | Craft is sinking in water |
| SMD | Stores Manifest Display |
| SNG | Start New Game |
| SNV | Supernova |
| SOS | Emergency Broadcast (Save Our Ship) |
| SOP | Standard Orbital Profile |
| SPC | Space - TACSCAN filter |
| SP | Solar Panel |
| SP1 | Solar Panel 1 status |
| SP2 | Solar Panel 2 status |
| SRE | Solar Reactor status |
| STATS | Statistics |
| STS | Space to Space |
| STT | Single Target Tracking - (TACSCAN filter) |
| SSD | System Status Display |
| SCM | Space Scan Mode |
| SSS | Support Ships Status |
| SUL | Support Unit Locator (TACSCAN filter) |
| SVI | Ship Velocity Indicator |
| SYR | Syrion |
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| TA | Training Academy |
| TA SHIELD | Tacyon Anagram Shield |
| TAC | Tactical computer status |
| TAC | TACSCAN computer |
| TACLINK | Tactical Link mode for probes |
| TACOPS | Tactical Operations Computer |
| TACTICAL | Tactical Computer |
| TAR | Target Acquisition Reticule |
| TAXI | Craft has landed on ground |
| TDD | Tactical Data Display |
| TDD | Transport Deployment Designator |
| TDU | Target Designator Unit |
| TOM | Team Orders Menu |
| TER | Terran |
| TIR | Tactical Information Relay |
| TLD | Target Lead Designator |
| TLL | Target Locator Line |
| TLM | Tactical Launch Menu |
| TMCD | Trans-Matrix Cloaking Device |
| TO | Tactical Officer |
| TOU | Tourist |
| TRA | Tractor Beam Indicator |
| TRA | Trader (TTD of an object in the VDD) |
| TRACK | MTI missile target track |
| TRADCOM | Trade Computer |
| TRK | Hostile Radar Tracking |
| TRS | Tactical Radar Scanner |
| TP | Transporter |
| TTD | Tactical Target Designator |
| TVM | Tactical View Mode |
| TWI | Track Warning Indicator |
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| VAL | Valkyrie |
| VDD | Visual Data Display |
| VES | Vesperon |
| VID | Video link |
| VIO | Violations |
| VITL | Visual Independent Tracking Logic |
| VLS | Visual Seeker Logic |
| VTOL | Vertical Take Off & Landing |
| VMI | Velocity Match Indicator |
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| WEP | Weapons |
| WEP | Weapons Computer Status |
| WHI | Waypoint Heading Indicator |
| WOR | Worker |
| WRM | Wormhole |
| WTS | Waypoint Tracking System |
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| ZEL | Zelon |