| II - VOCABULARY AND TERMINOLOGY |
:: S P E E C H⠀A N D⠀V O C A B U L A R Y ::
To begin to understand how to utilize the plethora of terms and synonyms Dispatch uses in its orders and sentences it is vital to initially comprehend the mannerism of how the A.I. directs orders and around what principles its 'speech' is based around.
The Overwatch A.I. utilizes a myriad of medical terms as well as components from the military/police and judicial environment; Its speech mostly based around medical terms. Dispatch has also repurposed components of specific police codes, specifically; North-American ten-codes which it uses to communicate to Civil Protection and other branches of the Overwatch forces. Other than ten-codes, the A.I. uses the same acronyms as North-American law enforcement such as 'ADW', 'BOL', 'UPI', 'APB'. Other than this repurposed terminology, Dispatch in addition to the aforementioned uses judicial language such as; "Sentencing", "Judgement", etc.. However, it is to be noted that Dispatch does not use abbreviations or acronyms when it refers to a "PT", it will always pronounce it fully as "Protection-team", this also refers to all other acronyms used as CP slang and locations on the locational index. This however, does not apply to acronym codes like "UPI, BOL, ADW, etc.".
It is most notable that its speech as aforementioned are medical terms. The A.I. coldly associates all of society within one urban centre into a single body consisting of differentiating cells that make up the body and will refer to the entire body as "the civil body" this includes everyone within one urban centre including its forces and anti-citizens.
The civic-body however, is not to be confused with "the civic-workforce". This is another term entirely and only refers to citizens of all classes, workers of any Combine corporations and sub-classes. The civic-workforce excludes its Overwatch forces and anti-citizens. Therefore with this knowledge a singular citizen within the civic-workforce can be referred to as a "socio-civic entity".
Going along with the medical designation certain groups within society get designated a specific term by the A.I., anti-citizens are referred to as "viral cells". To Dispatch this group of society is detrimental and the virome that has infected the civil body is to be expunged and inoculated. In this reference you can clearly see the A.I.'s utilization of medical terms and how it views society.
It is to be noted that Dispatch's messages are cold, direct, short and precise. It will always relay its directives in direct singular sentences until it is fed with new information so a subsequent response can be prompted to the corresponding forces it directs.
While roleplaying as the Overwatch A.I., structuring sentences in its typical way might prove difficult. Therefore, it is recommended you utilize existing voiceline strings to convey orders and directives to the Overwatch forces. However, you may structure your own sentences as long as you comprehend the way the A.I. sends out directives and orders as long as it is consistent with how Dispatch operates. Sometimes you will end up in a particular situation where a voiceline will not fit the context of the situation henceforth being able to structure your own sentences and directives is a must for any Dispatch player to avoid confusion.
:: T E R M I N O L O G Y⠀A N D⠀C O D E S ::
In addition to the speech and how Dispatch views society you have an array of codes and synonyms to command units. Each word has a different meaning and understanding these codes is vital to roleplaying as a dispatcher. It is recommended that you learn these so you can respond correctly to every situation the server throws at you.
187: Dispatch may apply this status to any subject. These digits mean that the containment of a specific individual is now discretionary. Officers are authorized to deliver an immediate amputation at their own discretion.
Accomplice: One who assists the crime’s principal actor; supplementary transgressors.
Administer: To carry out the effectuation of; to apply as a remedy (medical).
Airwatch: Combine airborne assets.
Amputate: To remove from the civil body (medical).
Anti-Citizen: A confirmed opponent of the state, often malcontent.
Apply: To hasten an operation; to issue, bring into operation (medical).
Assemble: To come together, group.
Augmentation Force: Operational reinforcements (military).
Autonomous: Engaging independently from Dispatch.
Biotic: Biological lifeform – typically vortigaunts, among other Xen fauna.
Blackout: Loss of contact (radio or visual).
Block: Sub-division of a region; a single building.
Cauterize: To permanently seal off by any means, often by damage (medical).
Capital: Highest in importance.
Checkpoint: A place, where (suspicious) people are stopped for inspection.
Citizenship: The status qualifying someone as a citizen with rights and responsibilities.
Clamp: To impose stricter control; to intensify repression.
Clean up: Formal closure of engagement; to free from waste (bodies/weapons).
Coagulate: To disperse from a concentrated state to a dispersed one, harden; clot.
Cohesion: Maintenance of operational integrity.
Confirm: To resolve potentially conflicting information.
Contact: Visual observation; exchange of fire.
Contain: To halt the spread or development of; to control.
Containment field: Dynamic force-field that restricts access to specific personnel.
Converge: To come together from different directions.
Corporeal: Consisting of material objects (law).
Debride: To precisely excise contaminated cells from an infection point (medical).
Detach: To remove from a group (ex: protection-team) or an assignment (often to reassign).
Deploy: To begin engagement.
Deservicement: Removal from service without citizenship amnesty.
Diagnose: To distinguish or identify; to discover the nature of (medical).
Dislocate: To displace an object from an assumed position.
Displace: To displace oneself from an assumed position.
Dissect: To examine, analyse minutely; to discover the cause of.
Discouragement Device: Hoppermine or Tripmine.
Document: To record the details of (often in a Datafile).
Drop: Deployment of aerial unit(s).
Duty: To execute a compulsory requirement.
Exogen: Exotic lifeform – typically antlions, among their related species.
Expired: No longer in use; terminated.
Expose: To reveal; to deprive of cover.
Expunge: To kill immediately, completely; to obliterate.
Extractor: Grenade of any kind (fragmentation, smoke, etc.).
Harden: To reinforce/fortify a position, become less vulnerable.
Hardpoint: A purpose-built fortified structure that is often armed.
Immediate: Without delay, disregarding potentially detrimental engagement protocols.
Incursion: A sudden anti-citizen offense; tactical breakthrough.
Infection: An external invasion of pathogenic threats, resultative in growing damage (medical).
Infestation: A threatening invasion of extreme quantities, parasite-like.
Inject: To move in; to force into something (medical).
Inoculate: To introduce processes that immunize the body (medical).
Inquire: To seek information by communication with outside sources.
Intercede: To intervene and resolve as an arbitrator/mediator.
Intercept: To stop the progress or intended course of.
Interlock: To connect together, become whole (in reference to team formation).
Interpose: Something that is located between two parties; to insert between, disrupt.
Isolate: To separate; to cause to be apart.
Laceration: Leakage of prohibited information, often resulting in witness sterilization(s) and punishment.
Lock: To hold a position, or to restrict it via a bio-lock.
Malcompliance: “Anti-compliance” – acts that are in defiance of compliance.
Malignant: Virulent or threatening to socio-stability – inclined to cause harm.
Midnight: An engagement protocol demanding complete silence and secrecy.
Miscount: Unrecorded or unfit individual – “not supposed to be here”.
Necrotic: Relating to death/corpses (necro-); any form of a zombie.
Non-citizen: A person sentenced for amputation; one without citizenship manifestation.
Non-compliance: Failure or refusal to comply.
Operate: To produce a desirable, proper effect (medical).
Outbreak: A sudden, violent occurrence threatening the civil body.
Overwatch: The Overwatch AI Mainframe, the greater CMB as a whole.
Pacify: To subdue or quell (a riot); to incapacitate non-lethally (an individual).
Parasite: Headcrabs and barnacles, among other biologically parasitic creatures.
Parasitic: Parasite-like – sharing the traits of parasites.
Political Conscript: An enslaved vortigaunt or proselyte unit.
Preserve: To sustain nominal socio-stability; to adhere.
Pressure: To intensify in force, influence something into breaking/giving up.
Probe: An expeditionary investigation of an unknown region/event.
Prosecute: To initiate or conduct a criminal case against (potentially including inquiry).
Ripcord: Get out quickly (as in a parachute cord) (not to be used in CP comms).
Recall: Removal from engagement with potential reassignment (military).
Recycle: To recondition (by severe punishment and/or memory replacement) (military).
Reinforce: To strengthen with additional personnel or equipment (military).
Respond: To react to an occurrence/stimulus in order to remedy it (medical).
Restrict: To deny access, prevent bypass.
Restrictor: Any static object that restricts access; antlion thumpers, forcefields, etc.
Request: A citizen-made assistance call.
Sacrifice: To fulfil absolute commitment to life-threatening engagements; permit no retreat.
Search: To examine for the purpose of discovering evidence of a crime.
Sector: The area that a particular unit is assigned to defend (military).
Shield: To engage in defensive, protective battle tactics.
Skyshield: Gunship/.
Sociocide: The destruction of society.
Stabilize: To restore normalcy.
Sterilize: To delete or remove compromising or damaging entities from.
Sterilizer: Deployable floor turret.
Suspend: To cease.
Sword: To engage in offensive, aggressive battle tactics.
TAC: Total Access Communication – the communication batches of Overwatch forces.
Tag: To label or identify; to confirm as “marked” (deceased).
TAG: Tactical Assault Gear – any and all equipment purposed for armed combat.
TAG units: Civil Protection members with 30%+ RP & in possession of a firearm.
Terminal: Of highest intensity, most severe.
Unrest/Unrest Structure: An active social disturbance that often involves demonstrations or rioting.
Vacate: Abandon (remove oneself from a location or assignment).
Verdict: Any legal judgment or decision; trial conclusion (law); ammunition, bullet(s).
Virome: Causal subject or occurrence (medical).
Virome: The genomes of all the viruses that inhabit a particular organism or environment.
Viral: Rapidly spreading, invasive and contagious – as a virus (medical).
Viscerator: Manhack (medical (from eviscerate: to weaken)).
Viscon: Visual confirmation.
Witness Sterilization: Amputation of people having experienced an event first-hand.
Winder: Dropship.
Workforce: All the people working or available to work; the citizen class of Combine society.
Wrap up: To settle the final details of (informal).
Zero: To close in upon; concentrate firepower on an exact target location (military), Disregard. Also used as a general filler.
ADW: Assault with a Deadly Weapon
APB: All Points Bulletin
BOL: Be on the Lookout
CP: Civil Protection; Checkpoint
CPT: Civil Protection Team(s)
DB: Dead Body
ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival
HVT: Helix Vector Tango (High-Value Target)
RVL: Revitalization
OC: Off-Course
UPI: Unidentified Person of Interest
:: P R O S E C U T I O N⠀C O D E S ::
Whenever Dispatch makes an announcement with the purpose of relaying directives to the corresponding ground units it may utilize 'Prosecution Codes', these codes have a specific meaning that relays a certain protocol units at your disposal will have to adapt to when completing a directive. When Dispatch utilizes these prosecution codes it always uses three of them consecutively or not at all as part of its vocabulary.
DUTY: An extensive protocol which describes the importance of the containment of a single subject or group. Once put in effect, units have to put all of their efforts into one assignment but only when encountered.
SWORD: A protocol relayed most frequently in sweeping procedures, this protocol refers to extensive offensive combat tactics and commands unit to react more offensively.
SHIELD: Opposed to SWORD this duty code relays the protocol of utilising defensive, protective combat tactics.
OPERATE: A protocol that calls for units to achieve a desireable effect, mostly paired with more descriptive duty codes to give more clarity about which objective is to be desireably achieved.
LOCK: A directive that in conjunction to an aforementioned location relays the message of holding a specific location.
CAUTERIZE: This prosecution code will set in motion the protocol of sealing of access to a certain location permanently, this is mostly done through explosives or other channels.
STABILIZE: In direct relation to socio-stabilization this prosecution code refers to the protocol of restoring normalcy in a specific region.
ASSEMBLE: A protocol which describes the importance of coming together as a group before engaging in a relayed directive.
CLAMP: As the name of this prosecution code implies this refers to the clamping protocol which commands units to clamp off access to a specific location.
CONTAIN: This prosecution code can have more than one meaning if it refers to a specific anti-citizen then it commands units to capture said viral cell. If this refers to a social fracture then it means to inoculate and contain the spread of development of said social fracture.
AMPUTATE: A protocol that can refer to multiple cells within the civic-body or a singular socio-civic entity. This commands units to remove a cell from the civic-body.
ZERO: When utilised as a prosecution code this refers to the protocol of closing in on a specific target or group.
CONFIRM: A protocol that commands units to resolve potentially conflicting data and confirm certain information through means of feedback to the A.I.
ISOLATE: A frequently used protocol that refers to the seperation of a singular viral cell or a group from the civic-body.
EXPUNGE: A prosecution code that is not to be mistaken with AMPUTATE. This protocol commands units to immediately expunge their target upon sight. It is mostly utilised in sweeping procedures.
ADMINISTER: Refers to the protocol that commands units to administer a sentence or verdict.
SACRIFICE: A prosecution code which demands units to complete the objective at all costs, even at the cost of personal safety and lives.
COAGULATE: This commands units to spread out and disperse from a concentrated mass, When used in a prosecution code it is mostly used so units spread out over a large area to complete an objective.
CO-OPERATE: This duty code as the name implies, commands units to co-operate with either other members of Civil Protection or members of the civic-body to complete an objective like for example: an arson.
PACIFY: A protocol that refers to a singular entity or a large group. This means to subdue or quell.
PRESSURE: A extensive protocol that commands units to apply intense force and speed when responding to a directive, this also refers to combat tactics where it is used to pressure the enemy. Mostly paired with SWORD.
STERILIZE: This can refer to cells within the civic-body or articles deemed detrimental in the eyes of Dispatch. It means to render something useless/decommisioned.
PROBE: A duty code that commands units to conduct an expeditionary investigation of a specific region through means of breaching or other channels.
INFORM: This refers to a protocol that commands Civil Protection units to inform members of the civil body on certain situations and the nessecary precautions they have to take.
INQUIRE: This commands units to aquire information through the civic-body. Units are obliged to feed the A.I. with the aquired information they've gotten through obeying this prosecution code.