Acronym Used

AIR — AI Interface Room (Nested Acronym). Control room for the hardware on which the station’s artificial intelligence runs.
CEVP — Chief Executive Vice President
CMO — Chief Medical Officer
CSO — Chief Science Officer
ETA — Estimated Time of Arrival
EVA— Extra Vehicular Activity
FTL — Faster Than Light
GCP — Gross Colonial Product
GeV — Giga electron-Volt. Equivalent to one billion electron-Volts (a measure of energy)
GGZ — Gas Giant Zone. Region in a planetary system occupied mainly by gas giants
HWS — Home World Standard. Characteristics of humanity’s home system. Mostly used as a basis for comparison
IRC — Interstellar Resources Corporation, Inc. Parent conglomerate. Supplies resource acquisition & extraction (mining) services, transportation and shipping services, private security services, state military services, exploration services, colony setup and management, etc.
LWZ — Liquid Water Zone. Range of distances from a star within which water on a planet’s surface can exist in a liquid state.
LWAZ — a LWZ plus an asteroid belt
MTBF — Mean Time Between Failures. Reliability metric. Large MTBF is good.
OIC — Officer In Charge
PIP — Picture-In-Picture. Smaller video or image window superimposed over a larger one. Concept extensible to holo tanks.
PSO — Planet Synchronous Orbit. Obvious extension of A.C. Clarke’s Geo-Synchronous Orbit concept.
ROI — Return On Investment
TeV — Tera electron-VoltOne thousand GeV