I’ve been tucking away fun, setting-specific things for Carta Galaxia, to keep the core game as setting neutral as possible. One of them is insults/swearing. Those who know me know that traditional swearing doesn’t come easy to me. And while I’m sure that the future will still have its “shits” and whatnots, I wanted something a little more unique to the setting. Not “alien”, nonsensical words like mivvons and frak and frell, but oaths who’s etymology you can track. I was a big fan of the Sigil cant/slang from Planescape, where you could see where the root idea came from (Rattle your Bonebox = run your mouth, talk too much)
The four I have so far are Jacksocket (“asshole” with vaguely penetrative cyber-sexual connotations), Vacc (because you never want to be exposed to vacuum, plus it has a nice short four-letter-word exclamation), Vacc Sucker (again, soooorta sexual (?) but used as a “really stupid person” insult) and Plasma Gargler.
Baez? Pfft. Vacc that guy.