LFN Terminology

[waltersgirl]

hell, i didn't even realize this was here. :lol

originally posted by Jul

Thanks for the great idea posted here by SpecOps... here's his/her message for the FAQ:

SpecOps202
Padawan
(8/8/00 7:24:54 pm)
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We have a list for acronyms but this there a list of LFN terminology? like Manditory Refusal etc. Thanks

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That was such a great idea, we've decided to get some help from the rest of our LFN brethern, and have borrowed the glossary from our friends at Glass Curtain. I sincerely hope they don't mind... this list will be in alphabetical order, and each reply will be a letter begininng with A going to Z. This is going to be a time intensive process, so I hope you all don't mind. it's going to take a couple of days to get it up....

if you know a phrase that we have not added to the list, please inform either Red or myself, and we will be happy to add it on the glossary...

Thanks again SpecOps202...
Jul

[waltersgirl]

*abeyance: condition of an operative being suspended from active mission duty until re-evaluation (usually leads to cancellation)

*abort: command to immediately cease an operation or mission

*Acceptable Collateral: Used in reference to a person (most often an innocent) that is considered expendable in trying to complete a mission

*Adrian: Founder of all the Sections and George's ex-lover. aka the "Mother" of Section One.

*Agency: Another government organization Section One works with from time to time

*Analysis: Information derived from an operative's intel gathering or debriefings that is separated into singular parts of info for further studying

*Artwork: Visual intel seen on debriefing hologram

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*Back-up: A secondary team that is sent in to support the First Team (Primary Team)

*Back-ups: Refers to the back-up of the Section One computer systen. These are controlled by the head of Systems aka Birkoff.

*Blood Cover: Covert Mission in which an operative is involved with a blood relative of the target and/or becomes a part of the target's family through marriage, adoption, etc.

*Breached: Where one or more operatives have been detected and attacked.

*Briefing: Area where missions are laid out before being enacted on- found under Operations observation tower aka the Perch

*Buffered Hostile: A relative or associate of a hostile that is held to be possibly used as a bargaining chip

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*C-4: A type of plastique explosive commoly used by terrorists and Section One.

*Cancel: To be put to death when in reference to operatives and/or hostiles - also one of only two options an operative has in getting out of Section One.

*Cell: Pairing of Operatives within a mission team.

*Class One Collateral: Extrememly important source/witness that is to be protected at all costs by holding them at Section One until their use is fulfilled.

*Close Quarter Standby: Used during times of Priority One missions, no operative is allowed ou of the Section until the mission is completed.

*Closure: All mission objectives have been met and there are no loose ends remaining.

*Cold Mission: Information gathering mission which usually involves one or more operatives to be sent in undercover to infiltrate and gather information (back-up teams are optional)

*Cold Operative: Operative whose main role is working on missions inside the Section, usually outside of dangerous missons, which includes operatives that stay in the mobile com unit (i.e. computer and medical techs)

*Comes to Term: End of the two year trainig period in which an evaulation of a material's suitability as an operative is made.

*Comm Center: Main area where communications of all levels are observed.

*Committee: Area of Section where meetings with members of Oversight are held.

*Communique: An official communication of bulletin.

*Compromised: To be found out, infiltrated, exposed - also used when referring to an operative's cover being exposed and an attempt on the operative's life has been made.

*Com-set: Device used in communicating between Operatives.

*Confirmation: The act of receiving approval from a higher authority before a mission can proceed

*Conservative Profile: When a profile is changes to one of non-action instead of the typical action.

*Containment: Area within Section that is used to prevent the release of any unknown and known toxins, viruses, bombs, etc that can harm Section's premises, also where hostiles are taken before interrogation.

*Convergence Plan: Quick fix plan to fix a mistake that was made duing a previous mission.

*Critical Mass: Maximum number of personnel needed to keep Section One viable.

*Cue It Up: Command given to display or run a computer or satellite message/image/display.

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*Dark Approach: breaking all communication with Section during a mission in order to not be detected.

*Deadcom Scenario: Mishap during mission that entails operatives unable to communicate with Section One and thus must carry on without Section's instructions till the profile has been met.

*Debrief: a process undergone by an operative to obtain any knowledge or intelligence gathered by said operative during a mission.

*Deep Channel: communication link not monitored by Section by but originates in Section.

*Directory: listing of all Section One Operatives and their profiles.

*Disenfranchised: taken apart - as in destroyed. When personnel numbers drop below a viable count, Section One is shut down and exterminates all surviving operatives including all Section One Heads.

*DOD: the United States' Department of Defense

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*Egress: anything involving the act of leaving, exit, main area where operatives enter and exit Section (aka van access).

*End Game: The first objective of any mission(s). Term comes into play when one or more missions are used to set up the main mission.

*Entry: Official term for the White Room where interrogations are conducted on hostiles and/or innocents.

*Evaluation: Decision at the end of the material's two year training perios as to whether operative status will be awarded - when status is denied the trainee is cancelled.

*Exposure: Term used to describe how much knowledge has been revealed to an innocent or target.

*Exterminate: The process of destroying something completely - also in reference to cancel.

*Extract: The process of trying to bring an operative back to Section One after being held hostage.

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*Fallback Route: Egress route used by a team to reach their pickup point upon completing a mission.

*Field Command: In charge of mission in every aspect.

*Field Mechanics: The mechanism of portraying someone they are not to the outside world for a lengthy time.

*Field Support: Also known as mission back-up

*Flash Mission: Operatives don't receive the profile until they are at van access, hence, no briefing for the mission.

*Floating backup: Technique of positioning shooters prior to a meet for protection.

*Freedom League: Terrorist group comparable to Red Cell.

*Full Status: Designation attributed to an operative who has passed evaluation - an equal to all other operatives and above in ranking to recruits and trainees

[waltersgirl]

*Gemstone: File which shows Section One's involvement with keeping certain terrorist groups and dictatorships alive, mainly Saddam Hussein.

*Ghost: Term that operatives use to describe themselves in relation to the world and/or people outside Section One.

*Glass Curtain: Terrorist group comprised of young misfits how have genius abilities in computers - was responsible for kidnapping and holding Michael's wife, Simone, for 3 years and for trying to steal the directory from Section and causing the evacuation of their Paris headquarters.

*Go Live: Command used to signal the technician to start the laser simulator or a mission - also used as a part of the material's final evaluation.

*Green Listed: Designation used for hostiles that play both sides of the fence (work for both Section One and terrorists) and cannot be cancelled unless Oversight approves it.

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*Held in Abeyance: Action in which an operative is held in Section headquarters while a decision is made whether to cancel him/her - refers to either a recruit coming up for operative status who has not performed up to standard or an operative who is not performing up to standard, usually due to errors or excessive collateral.

*Hostile: enemy of Section One.

*Hot: A good lead worth investigating immediately, a live wire in reference to a bomb, or a mission that is underway.

*Housekeeping: Operatives who come in to clean house - aka remove dead bodies, hostiles set for extermination, etc.

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*Incident: Event that has occurred which signals the attention of Section One.

*Ingress: Opposite of Egress - entrance.

*Incubate: Policy of holding a class one collateral at Section One to protect them from disappearing.

*Innocent: Person who is not a criminal nor a terrorist - often considered expendable by Section One.

*In Play: An active role in a mission as opposed to being an observer - example: Elena and Adam in the MMWK arc.

*Intel: slang for intelligence. used in referring to new information on some aspect of the mission at hand.

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*Jacques: Michael's code name - used as a secret contact to verify whether the contact is from Section One or not.

*Josephine: Nikita's codename (see above)

*Jurgen: the man who trained Michael upon his entrance into Section One. Spec Ops trainer who worked with Nikita upon her return from captivity by Freedom League and her 6 months away from Section. Died by means of suicide in order to fulfill a mission where the trigger of a bomb needed to be held in order for mission success.

[waltersgirl]

None Available. Please contact me if you come in contact with any "K" words that belong here...

thanks!!
Jul


isn't there a KL transformer?

[waltersgirl]

*Level One: Main Floor of Section One.

*Level Two: Information Storage floor of Section One.

*Level Three: Reprogramming Floor for Operatives.

*Level Six: where all common operatives congregate.

*Level Eight: rumored to be the area of Section where older operatives (no longer able to perform their duties) are held. Actual purpose- Unknown

*Level seventeen: second method for an operative to get out of the Section - rumored to entail Level Eight.


Levels also had significance directly related to an operatives field experience and data access...

lemme go find the intel and bring it back here.

[waltersgirl]

*Mandatory Refusal: Condition in which an operative assumes Section has been breached and will avoid contact with Section One at all costs (including killing anyone from Section that crosses their path) until the mission is complete - operatives are NOT to trust anyone inside or outside Section One.

*Material: Common reference to all recruits during their two years of training - also a designated item or person that is retrieved through a mission (aka package).

*Medical: Area of Section where medical emergencies are handled and treated.

*Mentor: Operative assigned to train the new recruit in the Section.

*Mission Parameters: Factors of a mission that will affect it's final outcome through seen and unforeseen variations.

* Mobile Com: Mobile communication unit of Section operatives.

*Munitions: Area where bombs and devices are made and stored along with the storage of all weaponry.

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*NEST: (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) U.S. Government specialists who can comb an area looking for nuclear materials or weapons.

*NSA: National Security Agency of the United States of America.

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*Observation: Sub-area of Medical that enables a wounded operative to be observed 24 hours/day not only by medical staff, but by psych staff, Operations, etc.

*Observer: Operative who does not actively participate in the mission, but, instead waits in the mobile com unit.

*Operation's Perch: Observation tower (also called the crow's nest) which overlooks the comm center and the main hub of level one, which enables Operations to view everything at all times (Big brother approach to ruling Section One).

*Operative: Agent who is highly trained in self defense, martial arts, seduction, espionage, weaponry, etc. - usually a recruited criminal whose death is faked once brought into Section One (hence the reference to being ghosts). Can also be an innocent whose skills are needed or someone who has stumbled onto Section One and is deemed good operative material.

*Operative Candidate: Recruit/Material that has completed the two year training period.

*Operative Status: Successful completion of the two year training period and final evaluation - also refers to an operative's ranking within Section One based upon past performaces during missions.

*Oversight: The board- a group that Operations has to answer to. The head of Oversight during Seasons 1-4 is George. Oversight answers to only one body: the Center, who oversees all things.

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*Package: Used to describe both an object or a person - the package is most likely to be the object of the Section's mission.

*Panel: device which contains the information vital for a mission. It is uploaded with the profile for the specific mission, aka Section's organizer.

*PDA: Personal Data Assistant

*Perimeter: Outer limits of a team's mission area.

*Perpheral Activity: Actions/events occurring near a mission objective unplanned by the Section.

*Phase One: Designation of the cell that is on point during a mission.

*Planted: Put there covertly by the Section.

*Point: Designation of the first operative in during a mission - main operative that does the job set for the mission.

*POS: Percentage of Success (aka possibility of success).

*Pre-Op: Basic outline for a mission before the final profile.

*Priority One: Full alert status for Section One where all operatives are called in and close quarter standby is declared.

*Primaries: aka details of a pressing mission.

*Profile: mission objectives, the objectives acheived during a mission.

*Program: Training schedule for recruits (and operatives being reprogrammed to Section's standards) to (re)learn all aspects of being an operative.

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*Quarantine: The act of sequestering a person or a group of people from the outside world due to contamination by a lethal contagion.

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*Real Time: what is really going on in that moment via a video feed, is called "In Real Time"

*Receiver: similar to a com set, but can only receive, never send.

*Recruit: Male or Female chose to be trained by a member of the Section as a possible Operative Candidate.

*Recruited: The process by which a person is brought into the Section, which usually involves faking the death of the recruit. The recruits are usually criminals though under certain circumstances innocents are also recruited.

*Red Cell: Terrorist Organization based out of North Korea which is one of Section's main nemeses.

*Retirement: Action which involves older operatives "retiring" to Level 8 (no one is sure what happens in Level 8, but definitely not a condo in Florida).

*Review: Every 3 years older operatives are tested for continued compatibility of staying within Section One.

*Router: Computer device that assists with high speed file downloading, most likely surreptitously. Also, a device that holds all of the frequencies on which Section communicates.

*Run It Cold: Involves running a mission with just the main team and no back-up support - not doing a dry run thru to work out the kinks in a profile.

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*Samuelle: Michael's last name

*Sanitize: Term used for 'general' cleanups involving housekeeping removing all bodies/evidence - also refers to medical aid to incoming operatives and/or innocents before being placed in entry.

*Saturated: reference to gathering information in a state of near completion.

*Scenario Parameter: Outline used to decide whether an operative or a mission was successful - mainly used to decide whether an operative has used excessive collateral.

*Section One: Clandestine organization dedicated to bringing down terrorists and crimials no one else can get to. Their actions are ruthless, but their means are justified.

*Sequence: computer simulations used to predict outcomes.

*Shadow Team: Team used to follow a target and report anything about or done by the target that will enable the mission to come to closure. Can also be a backup team that the First Team doesn't have any knowledge about.

*Shelf: time frame in which a mission, profile, etc. can be set or completed.

*Sims: slang for simulations that are run on different mission variables and parameters through the computer to help develop mission outcomes and odds of sucess - used as a method to decide the best possible route in planning a mission.

*Singularity: A peculiarity or something unusual during a mission.

*Special Ops: Specially trained operative who reprograms operatives that have been off-status back to Section One's standards and who evaluate the operative's physical, psychological, and emotional compatibility.

*Stand-by: Term to describe an operative awaiting the call to go on a mission (can't do anything else while in stand-by) - shortened version of close quarter standby except without staying in Section.

*Structural Integrity: Health of Section One (i.e. ability to defend its personnel and stations).

*Substations: Another location which Section One uses as remote bases - also used for emergency situations which require the temporary relocation of Section One.

*Surgical: When a team member is 'removing' a threat to mission - can either be person or machine/equipment (person does not have to be terminated, just removed-unless necessary). Also, can be used to describe a mission which is executed cleanly, so that the presence of Section Operatives isn't known to the targets until they are caught.

*Systems: Area where sims are run, sequences are tested, etc.

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*Tactical: The general outline of upcoming mission. Also a position, normally held by a team leader or higher, that monitors and controls a mission in progress.

*Take the meet: Term used to tell an operative that they will be the one asigned to meet with a contact.

*Target: Person/object the Section is going after.

*Technical Oversight: Position that involves trouble-shooting and mission commands during a mission gone live

*Terminated: Another term for cancelled.

*Terrorist: A person who uses force or violence again persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment therof, in furtherance of political objectives.

*The Tower: Possible living area of Section used for higher level operatives for "horizontal-recreation" and possible close-quarter standby situations with Ops or Maddie - not to be confused with Ops Perch.

*Thread: a link to the missions' closure.

*Tracker: A small circular leaf that can be placed anywhere on any object/person which enables Section to track the movement of that object/person from anywhere in the world.

*Transit: When an item or person is on route from the place where they started to Section One.

*Type One Directive: A directive that when issued cannot be taken back.

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*Umbrella File: file that stores surveillance information encompassing many aspects of the initial target.

*Unrelated Aggression: Occurrence where force was required but was not a part of the mission.

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*Valentine Op: An operative who's main purpose is to use the means of seducation to elicit intel from a target.

*Van Access: Exit leading to transport out of Section to where ever the mission is to take place (aka egress).

*Variable: Something that is prone to variations out of Section's control.

[waltersgirl]

*White Room: Octagonal room which is used for interrogation of hostiles and/or innocents.

*Window: Time period in which a mission can take place.

[waltersgirl]

Don't have any, but please inform me if you can think of any..

Thanks!!
Jul

[waltersgirl]

*Y-directive: A directive that is issued by one of the Sections where they ask Oversight for help and resources from all of the Sections in order to complete a mission.

[waltersgirl]

No terms from this letter that I know of. If I have ignored anything, please inform me,and I will add it to the list.

Thanks!
Jul