Wildspace Common

Wildspace Common is the name of the common language of Wildspace and the areas of the Astral Sea occupied by the Phlogiston. It is an creole language derived from ancient human worshippers of Ptah, the first humans to take to astral travel, and Imperial Elven, the lingua franca shared between the varying fleets of the Imperial Elven Navy.
Wildspace Common is also the most wildly spoken languages on multi-racial spelljammers, where the language has gained a unique subset of terms and definitions unique to these crews. A selection of common words and phrases used by spelljamming crews on this page.

Geographical Distribution

Wildspace Common can be found in and around the many crystal spheres that float in the phlogiston of the Astral Sea. However, the further one gets away from the "core" of the known crystal spheres, that being Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace, the rarer Wildspace Common becomes, though one must travel quite a distance away before this becomes noticeable, as Wildspace Common remains the common tongue in border regions of the known Astral Sea, like the Rapide Frontier.

Dictionary

31 Words.

Common Phrases

Astropotamus: Slang for a giff
Attercop / Eelspider: A neogi
Atter-tatter: A derogatory term for a thief. Derives from the word "attercop," another word for a neogi.
Atterbooter: A neogi pirate
Bilge Bug: Derogatory slang for a thri-kreen
Breatheasy: The air envelope around a ship
Chainman: A slave
Crack Crew: A spelljamming crew that has traveled beyond their home sphere.
Eye Tyrant / Spacegazer: Alternate terms for beholders
Flapper: Derogatory slang for a hadozee
Freebooter: How spelljamming pirates refer to themselves.
Grav-line / Deckline: The gravity plane within an air envelope
Green Crew: A spelljamming crew that hasn't left their home crystal sphere.
Greenie / Greenhorn: An inexperienced crewmate on a spelljamming vessel.
Grockle: A slightly derogatory way to refer to a traveller from a distant crystal sphere.
Groundling / Dirtbound: Someone with no spacefaring experience.
Illisquid / Head Humper / Squidhead: Derogatory terms for illithids
Lifejammer: A spelljamming helm that drains the users life-force. Typically found on slave ships
Metrockolis: A city or settlement built on an asteroid
Phlogistronaut: An ancient term for someone who pilots a Spelljamming vessel from its helm.
Shooter: An alternative name for a ballista
Silver Sea: The Astral Sea. Contrasts with the Rainbow Sea of the Phlogiston
Skipper: The captain of a spelljammer (typically separate from a spelljammer's pilot).
Slavemaker / Brain Leech / Mindfarmer: All various terms for illithids
Slimer / Snotling: Derogatory slang for a plasmoid
Slinger: An alternative name for a mangonel / catapult
Snubber: A derogatory term for githyanki
Spelljammer / Helmsmaster / Coxswain: The magic user that pilots a Spelljamming vessel from its helm.
Star-eye: Slang for an astral elf
Starborn: Someone born in Wildspace.
Starfarer / Jammer: Someone who works on a Spelljammer or adventurers in the Astral Sea and Wildspace.
Voidskull: A complete idiot