[Hellstryker]

More like the size of two collosuses 

[Asuko]

Heh, sounds like fun. The Silmarillion is a good place to look for more of the obscure Tolkien names.

[azile0]

Well, I believe Volition classed each species with an Empire, or nation, to give them all a connection. I BELIEVE it goes like this:

Terrans : Greek mythology - Myrmidon, Hercules, and Terran is derived from 'Terra' , which is... Greek? It may be Latin, for earth.

Vasudans : Egyptian mythology - Anubis, and, they are all very intrested in Egypian culture.

Shivans : Indian (like, from India) mythology - Scorpio, and just the word 'Shivan' is derived from 'Shiva' The Indian (?) goddess of Creation and rebirth

I think I got it right. I have been playing Freespace for several years. My dad got it from his friend, and I was about... 6. He burned the game to CDs, and I just played the campaign OVER , and OVER. (Playing Judas scared me. All alone, surrounded by Shivans...) And I heard about a sequel. I jumped in the air, and yelled, goody goody! I bought it over E-Bay a few days later. Then, while looking for mods/campaigns, I found Hard-Light, and the wonders it holds.

P.S. Thanks Goob!

[Goober5000]

You're welcome.

...for what?

[TrashMan]

To be worthy of the name, a ship like that would have to be one-of-a-kind, ultra-slow, about the size of two Orions stacked on top of each other, and have lots of little turrets and pointy parts sticking out of the surface.

And be lit from behind by a red sun. ALL THE TIME.

Wasn't Thangorodrim Morgoths fortress carved into the mountain (actually, it was MADE from the mountains or something) with lots of spikes resembling a crown?
Making a ship as frightening and big as that would be wicked....hmmm....

Heh, sounds like fun. The Silmarillion is a good place to look for more of the obscure Tolkien names.

Very good one. I just opened the dictionary randomly at the end of the book and picked up a few more menacing sounding names from the two pages. There's a lot more pages to go, and a lot more names.One can even forge his own names with relative ease.

[Asuko]

Well, I believe Volition classed each species with an Empire, or nation, to give them all a connection. I BELIEVE it goes like this:

Terrans : Greek mythology - Myrmidon, Hercules, and Terran is derived from 'Terra' , which is... Greek? It may be Latin, for earth.

Vasudans : Egyptian mythology - Anubis, and, they are all very intrested in Egypian culture.

Shivans : Indian (like, from India) mythology - Scorpio, and just the word 'Shivan' is derived from 'Shiva' The Indian (?) goddess of Creation and rebirth

That's all true. Terra is most likely from Latin though. Greek mythos used Gaea, or Gaia depending on the translation.

The Silmarillion rocks in general. It plods on but since all the stories are loosely related to each other, it's not a solid block of paper that you would have to read.

[Hellstryker]

Terran uses a jumbled collection of norse, greek, and latin 
Vasudans use egyptian names.
And SHIVANS use Indian, biblical, and... celtic? *cough*Taranis*cough*

[Asuko]

Taranis is celtic? Wow, it is but where was Taranis used?

[Jeff Vader]

Taranis is celtic? Wow, it is but where was Taranis used?

In FS1. It was a Cain that the GTA captured.

[Asuko]

Ohh, that ship. Forgot about it.

[Mobius]

Terra is Latin...and Italian 

Methinks using names like Morgoth (he's so much more badass than Sauron anyway) or his other, less known names, like Bauglir ("The one who forces").
Or Gothmog (the lord of Balrogs)

there are so many good names, like:

Umarth - the cursed one
Uruloki - the fire serpent
Valaraukar - mighty evil spirit (a.k.a. Balrog)
Thangorodrim - tyrants hills/mountains
rtc...

Well...

1) Gothmog was the lord of the balrogs, not Morgoth. An Orc general of the third era(the one seen in LOTR: RotK) was named after him;

2) Uruloki, fire serpent, basically stands for "dragon"(not winged dragons, there's another word for them);

3) Valaraukar is plural. It should be Valarauko. It's just the Quenya equivalent of the Sindarin Balrog.

Ohh, that ship. Forgot about it.

There always is the FreeSpace Wiki for quick references 

[Asuko]

Meh, this be a Freespace noob anyway.

[Bob-san]

1000th post in reply. Anyways--I thought of using the Kama Sutra once too. That would ahve proved fatal though.

[TrashMan]

Well...

1) Gothmog was the lord of the balrogs, not Morgoth. An Orc general of the third era(the one seen in LOTR: RotK) was named after him;

2) Uruloki, fire serpent, basically stands for "dragon"(not winged dragons, there's another word for them);

3) Valaraukar is plural. It should be Valarauko. It's just the Quenya equivalent of the Sindarin Balrog.

You question my knowledge of Tolkien?
Heresy!


*btw - read what I wrote about Gothmog a bit better. I never wrote Morgoth was the lord og Barlogs (alltough in a way he was, he was the uber ultimate bad guy compared to which Sauron looks like my little pony)

[Mobius]

Heresy?

I proved you wrong. Karajorma does it, too

There's a difference between Morgoth, Lord of Balrogs and The Balrog Gothmog, Lord of of Balrogs.

The plural of Balrog shouldn't even be Balrogs, but I have never studied Sindarin, I find it too Germanic(unlike Quenya, that is Italian-Latin like ).

[Asuko]

Hooray orcing! No, stop it completely.

[NGTM-1R]

Japanese names of historical ships, this could keep you going a looooong time on GTVA craft.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/cvlist.htm (carriers)
http://www.combinedfleet.com/lancers.htm (destroyers)
http://www.combinedfleet.com//Junyokan.htm (cruisers)
http://www.combinedfleet.com/senkan.htm (battleships)
http://www.combinedfleet.com/Tokusetsu%20Kansen!.htm (auxiliaries and smaller combatants)

[Asuko]

Haha, there's also the list of WWII ships on Wikipedia. That was fun to peruse in school.

[TrashMan]

Heresy?

I proved you wrong. Karajorma does it, too

There's a difference between Morgoth, Lord of Balrogs and The Balrog Gothmog, Lord of of Balrogs.

The plural of Balrog shouldn't even be Balrogs, but I have never studied Sindarin, I find it too Germanic(unlike Quenya, that is Italian-Latin like ).

No you havn't.
I never mixed up Morgoth and Gothmog. Learn how to read.
And I'm not writing the sentance in elvish, I'm writing it in english, thus it IS Barlogs.

[Mobius]

No you havn't.
I never mixed up Morgoth and Gothmog. Learn how to read.
And I'm not writing the sentance in elvish, I'm writing it in english, thus it IS Barlogs.