GLOSSARY
Book of Immersion
*Ableteen.....an extremely fast high tech solar powered android designed for households
*agitator.....disruptor, protestor, criminal
*Alltime…..Alltime is an educational and research digital facility used in the Midcasts for educational purposes. Alltime files are compiled and updated by the Metacoms Corporation
*AR...augmented reality
*AS...abbreviation Artificial State, a group specialising in artificial intelligence
*assemblers....a highly technical social grouping who make robots and equipment from found and stolen materials. They are not a gang, but more a collection of like-minded people who share ideas and information.
*bad-gas….. gasses left over from the wars that are used by gangs to poison and disable human targets
*Bastardo(s)...a violent criminal group from the outer zones
*bits......a type of unregistered monetary token used in the zones
*bioflow...natural biological body responses and processes
*blessed....legally binding partner/husband/wife/chosen one
*brightside.....refers to any place outside the Zones with organised government because of their sanitised homes and sophisticated lighting systems
*cadre ship…a ship housing powerful female revolutionaries
*CASM .....abbreviation Crimes Against State Midcast, a body established to weed out vice and organised crime
*Centre for Strategic Warfare...a building and organistation active during the Russia China Wars
*contras….contraband police from the Midcasts
*connects....connections (colloquial)
*coptor....any flying transportation with rotors
*crimgangs....groups of humans involved in organised crime, similar to pirates, often operating on waterways
*datapods....podcast and video classes particularly used in educational facilities
*dinfant....any child android generally made to look under 5
*DLD....abbreviation Dinfant Loss Depression
*dark cycle....night
*droids...abbreviation, android, a non-human made to look like a human
*edge....an area of land about two miles wide that encircles the zones
*epoxy-wall...a viscous jelly substance that spreads as a shapeless mass engulfing anything in it's path
*epsceting...freakspeak for expecting
*face-recog....abbreviation, a computerised process for facial recognition
*fooksymess....a mess or fuckup
*freaks.... mutated humans caused by the effects of chemical warfare
*freakspeak...language spoken by the tribes of the tunnels
*frienly.....colloquial/contracted 'friendly'
*fucksyfool....colloquial, poss. insult, idiot, damned fool,
*fucksyoff....go away, leave me alone
*fuxywot....zone word slang/colloquial 'what the fuck' expressing disbelief
*gaunty-travel......colloquial, zoners' language roughly translates as a very dangerous journey
*G-bits ....a valuable metal nugget used as money and trading in the zones
*gilly......colloquialism meaning agile, quick and responsive
*hiddens…people living off grid without data trace (hidden ones - contraction)
*indeedy…..colloquial, indeed, certainly, for sure
*infon…..abbreviation, information on
*ishy...slang zoner specific word meaning issue
*loney....a solitary traveller, often nomadic
*love-plenty….virile
*lowers....an underclass of Urchs
*man’dun…that which a man must do
*mark 2.....a version of android, second generation
*mark 3.....a version of android, third generation
*mersers...people who love to engage with virtual realities
*Metacoms Corporation….a powerful and dominant company who create and own the patents of all androids in the Midcast Projects.
*metamorph.....a transition to the second or third life after a baby's birth or a passage the living transcend to upon dying
*midcast.... government-supervised enclosed safety habitats for professional workers
*moonturn....month of the year
*muddafinks....derogatory insult, slang, also motherfuckers
*mumbachumba...mumbling or gossip
*nibs....a mind and body altering highly addictive drug
*nuke...attractive, sexy, beautiful, hot
*OB…Oceanic Boundlessness
*pandemics...a series of epidemics in quick succession that wiped out millions of humans
*party-party...a really good, important, or special event or celebration
*Petriline...a hard wearing almost indescribable plastic (brand name)
*pipin'....abbreviation, piping, the smoking of substances in a pipe
*Pirate Stream….one of the main importation water routes for contraband into the zones
*plenty-ful....plentiful, generous, at full capacity
*ponybot....a pony robot
*POS....personal operating system, eg computer-operated technologies, androids, home tech etc.
*PF/Protector Force....the police force operating in the Midcast Projects
*preds…. predictions by artificial intelligence
*Redact.... an underground secret organisation and headquarters housing a resistance led group of individuals
*robo-dog...a robotic or android dog
*RR...abbreviation real reality, real life experiences with no machine input
*Russia-China Wars...a long series of battles fought on land sea and in cyber space between Russia and China lasting almost a century
*toggies...clothes (colloquial)
*’shroom...abbreviation hallucinogenic mushroom
*’shroom party...a social gathering with drugs
*scoot...coloquial, scooter
*scritters....insect hybrids considered vermin
*shads...ghosts or shadows of people from the future
*shitsylook...staring for any reason at another person
*'sides....abbreviation of besides
*spunky-give….sperm
*street-bot....robots and androids who live on the streets, usually in the zones
*swapsie-trade....a swap of items that are traded without money, regional
*tellywebs.....mobile viewing ports for entertainment worn on the wrist that can be enlarged into 3d virtual spaces
*timeplenty ....plenty of time, time to spare
*third life.....the life after death
*tunnels...a warren-like underground system of partly dug and partly derelict transport tunnels occupied by tribespeople
*toggies...clothing, colloquial street term
*urchs...low class tribal people (slang)
*vicular....any type of vehicle that can directionally transport
*vilarev.....zonespeak for Vive La Revolution
*virginloss…loss of virginity and or coming of age
*VR...virtual reality
*VR cafe....a drop in establishment dealing in virtual reality sessions
*warming(s).....increased earth temperature, their have been several marked peeks
*websynet ....an underground messaging service used by Zoners that uses encrypted code
*whappens..abbreviation for 'what is happening?'
*welcummin...freakspeak meaning 'I welcome you here'
*wheelin'.....driving a wheeled vehicle
*wordysmith'....someone who talks well with many words
*zoners....dwellers from the zones
*zonespeak....a language invented by the zone dwellers to protect privacy and communicate without infiltration from enemies
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