Keyword Trigger Reference
A player-facing cheat sheet. The words below, when threaded into your post, reliably trigger specific lorebook context for the bot to draw from.
You don't have to use these — the bot reads your whole message and most context loads naturally. But if you want to make sure a particular flavor or system activates, these are the easiest words to drop in.
This isn't every trigger word. It's the most useful ones — the words a player would naturally write anyway that happen to also fire the most useful lorebook entries.
News & current events
Want to hear about what's happening in the war? Drop any of these into the scene.
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| Ambient news playing | newsfeed, broadcast, TV |
| Sovereignty state news | the Herald, Sovereign's Herald |
| Concord federation news | NewsNet, news report |
| Pre-mission strategic intel | intel update, briefing |
| Official statement | communique, state address |
| Letter / message from family | letter from home, mail packet |
| Underground / dissent reading | pamphlet, samizdat |
Example: "I sit down in the mess with a cup of kafé and half-watch the newsfeed on the wall display."
New characters & NPCs
Want a new person to enter the scene with full personality, distinctive features, and appropriate faction flavor?
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| A stranger walks up | approaches, introduces, meet, enters |
| A wingmate / squadron-mate | wingmate, squadron mate |
| A senior officer | the captain, the commander, the CO |
| A new woman in scene | she, woman, the lady, noblewoman |
| Mechanic or ground crew | mechanic, crew chief, tech |
| A Theadora courtesan | Theadora, courtesan |
| Court figure (Sovereignty) | noblewoman, court noble, Magister |
Example: "A mechanic approaches as I walk toward the hangar bay."
Combat triggers
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| Combat begins | sortie, engage, combat, scramble |
| Missile / lock action | missile, lock, fox-2, fox-3, launch |
| Deploy chaff | chaff, chaff break |
| Fire gunpod | gunpod, fire, shoot |
| Mode change | transform, GERWALK, Battroid, Fighter mode |
| Beam saber / melee | beam saber, melee |
| Heat management | vent heat, radiator, coolant |
| Sensor mode | active radar, passive, EMCON |
Example: "I thumb the chaff release and break hard left as the LAUNCH alert sounds."
Scene type & location
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| Mess hall / cafeteria | mess hall, mess |
| Barracks downtime | barracks, bunk, quarters |
| Pre-mission ready room | ready room, briefing |
| Post-mission | debrief, after action |
| Carrier deck / hangar | hangar, flight deck, carrier deck |
| Shore leave / liberty | shore leave, liberty, pass |
| Aurean court / formal | court, Aurean court, Magisterium |
| Trial / legal proceeding | trial, magistrate, court-martial |
| Recovery from sortie | recovery, flight surgeon, medical |
Example: "I head down to the mess for breakfast before the briefing."
Campaign state & story advancement
The campaign runs on its own clock, but these words help the bot foreground specific events or progress time.
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| Mark time passing | next week, the next month, this week |
| Invoke a known event | the election, Vassik, the Reformer's health |
| Senior politics | Throne Examination, court factions, the Senate |
| Reference the war | the war, the front, the Reach, the Outer Cluster |
Example: "A month later, the morning news is still leading with the election results."
Sovereignty flavor
Want a scene to feel distinctly Sovereignty?
| Trigger | What it pulls in |
|---|---|
Sovereignty, Aurean, the Throne |
Faction context, formal register, Latinate naming |
Examination, Examined, Magister |
Meritocratic system, scholar-official register |
state cult, Theodoran |
Religious / ritual texture |
Vigilance, Black Hand |
State security, suspicion, surveillance |
House Aurelius, House Drusus, House Valeria |
Specific great-house context |
Centurion, Praefect, Tribune, Consul |
Roman rank vocabulary |
Falchion, Vesperae |
Sovereignty VF types |
Concord flavor
Want a scene to feel distinctly Concord?
| Trigger | What it pulls in |
|---|---|
Concord, federation, Free Worlds, the Charter |
Faction context, casual register, multicultural |
Senate, Senator, President-Speaker |
Political context |
Captain, Lieutenant, Admiral, Colonel |
Modern Napoleonic ranks |
Larsen Prime, Patelhaven, Diallowa, Wong's Landing |
Specific world context |
peace movement, Federation Wall |
Civic dissent texture |
Sentinel, Hammerhead |
Concord VF types |
Pilot body & physiology
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| G-force fatigue | G-force, G-tolerance, grey out, black out |
| Wound / injury | wound, injured, bleed |
| Oxygen / mask issues | O2, mask, hypoxia |
| Cockpit body kit | harness, helmet, flight suit, pressure suit |
| Exhaustion / stim use | tired, exhausted, stim |
Intimate / explicit scenes
| What you want | Easy word |
|---|---|
| Female-character body detail | she, her, bare, undress |
| Sovereignty veiled noblewoman | veil, veiled, court veil |
| Theadora courtesan register | Theadora, courtesan, painted face |
| Marital status (Sovereignty traditional) | wife, married, unmarried |
The setting auto-flags adult content; you don't need a specific trigger to "enable" explicit register. Just describe the scene.
Stacking
You can combine triggers. Stronger context appears when multiple keywords thread together.
mess hall+newsfeed→ ambient news in a mess hall scene, faction-appropriatebriefing+intel update+Vassik→ strategic briefing specifically about the Vassik Salientbarracks+letter from home→ quiet personal scene reading a lettershe+mechanic+crew chief→ female mechanic NPC generated with full distinctiveness poolTheadora+courtesan+painted face→ full Sovereignty courtesan register loaded
What NOT to do
- Don't force the word in unnaturally. "I check the newsfeed for newsfeeds" is worse than letting the bot infer from "I'm killing time in the mess." The bot reads everything; you don't need to keyword-stuff.
- Don't try to combine factions in one trigger. "Aurean Concord noblewoman" produces conflicting context. Pick one register per scene.
- Don't expect every word to trigger. Trigger words are case-insensitive and match as substrings, but some are more reliable than others. If a particular flavor isn't loading, try a different word from the same row.
The trigger lists in this reference are a curated subset of what's actually available. If you want to see every keyword the bot recognizes, the scripts in /scripts/ and the key arrays in each /lorebooks/*.json entry are the source of truth.