Glossary

AMR
Acronym for anti-materiel rifle.

Anti-materiel
An adjective for a tool used for the purpose of destroying inanimate objects as opposed to personnel.

APC
Acronym for armored personnel carrier.

AR
Acronym for augmented reality. Also a term for ArmaLite rifles.

Assault rifle
Archaic term for automatic rifle. Regularly confused with the term AR.

Augmented reality
A term for displays that overlay information and graphics onto a video feed of the real-world surroundings.

Automatic rifle
Official Cyberian term for rifles that are self-repeating. Rifles do not necessarily need a full-auto setting to be considered 'automatic rifles'.

Gun launderer
A term for people who make a living "laundering" (i.e., illegally supplying unlicensed people with) guns.

Gun license
A license necessary for the legal acquisition and non-malicious use of a class of firearms. Further reading: Gun laws in Cyberia

IFV
Acronym for infantry fighting vehicle.

Infantry
A term for ground troops. Armed personnel who operate outside of a vehicle.

Main battle tank
A tracked vehicle with a large-bore cannon.

MBT
Acronym for main battle tank.

Materiel
Different than material. Materiel refers to physical objects that are used for military purposes.

Money laundering
A term for the act of concealing the origin of profits, whether the profits are legal or illegal.

Headquarters
Base of operations, used in the context of law enforcement and riot control.

Heads-up display
A similar term for augmented reality, or AR.

HUD
Acronym for heads-up display.

Personnel
Term used for people who are part of an organization, especially if military.

Rifle
A gun that has a rifled barrel.

Rifled
A barrel that has rifling.

Rifling
Spiraling grooves cut in a gun barrel to impart spin on its projectile(s) for ballistic stability.

Schutzstaffel
Highly insulting nickname for the Riot Control Corps, used to compare them to Nazi Germany's paramilitary organization of the same name. German for "Protection Squadron".

Smoothbore
A barrel that is smooth as opposed to rifled.

Tank
Heavily armored vehicle that usually has at least three axles. Most commonly refers to MBTs, which have catapillar tracks and a large-bore cannon.