Spacer Code

Ha, de cor up one niner da therm.
Eh, throt low two fiver cent
Ay, throt low two fiver cent
Reout?
Ha, de cor on beam
Eh, mon an vise.

One thing a Spacer cannot afford, in most situations, is to waste time.  A Spacer also cannot afford to miscommunicate.  For the individuals who spend their lives in space, operating and maintaining their DSTV and other space vehicles have developed a wide array of behaviors and practices to save time and ensure clear communication in the often noisy and confusing environment aboard a space ship.  The development of what is known as Spacer Code began as simply a way to save time and improve communication accuracy.  Over time this developed into a complex language filled with shortened words and phrases, as well as a huge array of reworked phonemes to improve clarity.  The Spacers began to consider this an advantage when dealing with what they call Grounders, anyone who does not spend their life in space traveling all, or most, of the time.  As this view became more prevalent this language originally developed for better communication rapidly evolved into a true secret code language intended to both communicate effectively as well as hide the content of that communication from others.  This led to phrases like "throt low two fiver cent" which means to adjust the fuel flow up by 15 percent in the lower drive systems; a complete divergence from the expected meaning, but one understood clearly by the ship's crew and with one tenth of the words.