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Galactic Trade Standard (also known as Waylonics or GTS for short), is the common language used in the signage often seen around stations.

To quote from the manual, GTS is "a language simple enough that it could be learned quickly, but diverse enough to cover anything that traders might want to say to one another."

GTS is made up of two alphabets, one consisting of phonetic sounds, and another made up of pictograms representing ideas you will meet in the Vendetta Online environment.

[[Image:Gtspictograms.gif|left|thumb|GTS Pictograms]]

[[Image:Gtsalphabet.gif|left|thumb|GTS Alphabet]]

GTS is read from left to right, top to bottom. In general, when there are pictograms, they are representing the bulk of the sentence, with the phonetic alphabet representing words that do not have pictograms, or are proper nouns. You will never find a sign in Vendetta Online that has only pictograms. Refer to section two for a tutorial in GTS grammar.

Actually, yes. Back when the signs were first introduced to the game during its Alpha stages (somewhere in the 3.3.x period) along with the accompanying modular station, several players took it upon themselves to decipher the many signs that had appeared. Included among the team were the players Lemming, newbie, Roguelazer, StarFreeze, Tempest, and Verdandi, as well as the devs a1k0n and Waylon, who gave hints along the way.

At one point, interest in GTS was so high that several font models were made by players, including a calligraphy-style font that mimicked the use of a pen on paper.

When GTS was introduced to the game people created fonts that copied the symbols. There are two popular fonts:

* [http://upload.localnetsys.com/upload/may05/Vendetta_Chat.ttf.zip This font], created by Newbie, is a copy of the vendetta chat font with GTS characters.

* [http://upload.localnetsys.com/upload/may05/GTSCalligraphic.ttf.zip This font], created by Cale, is a handwritten style font of the GTS symbols.

== Galactic Trade Standard Primer ==

This is a basic introduction to the grammar of the GTS signs found in Vendetta Online. Parentheses separate spelt-out words.

=== Lesson 1: Simple Signs ===

In this case, the assumption that "commodity" is plural is safe because otherwise the sign would not make sense.

=== Lesson 2: Moderate Signs ===

The <b>'</b> indicates that the numeral preceding it is an ordinal. (first, second, third, etc.) The "in" symbol could make sense interpreted as either "at" or "in", so this is indicated. The sign makes slightly more sense with "repair" in the plural.

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