[An4ximandros]

All of BP's ships were taken from premade packs as far as I know.
Their original work comes mostly from skyboxes I think.

Edit: And code off course!

[General Battuta]

All of BP's ships were taken from premade packs as far as I know.
Their original work comes mostly from skyboxes I think.

Edit: And code off course!

And a lot of scripting, including a bunch of stuff that went into the 3.6.12 MVPs.

[Scotty]

Most of the actual model assets in BP aren't original.  BP just made them famous.

[Killer Whale]

Raynor is a terrible name.  I'd change it, but the compatibility issues that would cause are unacceptable.

I'd have called it either Atreides or Erebus.  You know, something in keeping with GTVA naming conventions.

But is not Raynor the/a greek god of strength? Hence keeping entirely in line with GTVA naming conventions.

[Aesaar]

I've never heard of that.

And a google search reveals nothing except the obvious Starcraft use.  Same goes for Wikipedia.

[An4ximandros]

It seems to be old Norse, though, given ships types like Valkyrie, it still fits.

[Klaustrophobia]

from the point of view of someone who has never cared about name origin enough to look anything up and can associate only the most obvious greek god ones and the like, "raynor" simply sounds better than those other two mentioned.  and i like that i don't have to think for a few seconds on how to pronounce it when i look at the name.  or worse, just completely guess and then have a small part of my own personal FS world come crashing down when it finally gets voice-acted.  (bei was always pronounced like "by" in my head.  and that little voice in there still screams over the VA to drown it out.)

[Ryuseiken]

I've only seen meanings for the name Raynor (from baby naming sites so take that as you will), but based on that it fits with the Freespace ship's role.

Meaning:
Scandinavian: Mighty Army
English: Strong Counselor
Norse: Brave One

I actually never had a problem with the Raynor, but that might have something to do with the fact that I grew up playing a lot of Starcraft.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I haven't bought or played any commercial resource-intensive game since SimCity 4 but I find the name "Raynor" to be quite fitting.

[Aesaar]

I still don't think it's a good name, but that's moot anyway.  It isn't changing.

[redsniper]

In 300 years Starcraft and the characters in it may have the same literary status as ancient greek myths and deities.

[Ryuseiken]

Frankly, if we're including South Korea in this I think Starcraft has already achieved that...

[SpardaSon21]

After the quality of the story in Wings of Liberty, I don't think so there will be any cult following.

A Wedge Antilles-class carrier, though...

[headdie]

After the quality of the story in Wings of Liberty, I don't think so there will be any cult following.

A Wedge Antilles-class carrier, though...

Star Craft has been a religion in South Korea since SC1

[SpardaSon21]

South Korea, yeah, not worldwide.  I'm waiting for the Star Trek Wars and the Star Wars Trek, but I don't think there will be anything similar from Korea.

[SaltyWaffles]

Raynor is an awesome name. And there are only so many names in Greek mythology.

Besides: RAYNOR. It looks cool, it sounds cool, and it evokes the awesome wrath of the Hero Marine/Vulture Bike.

[Phantom Hoover]

There are a lot of names in Greek mythology.

[redsniper]

Yeah, but how many of them sound cool?

[An4ximandros]

Pluto should be the new name, it's the Hades done right. 

[Droid803]

The Hades has almost 4-8x the armor. It can *actually* tank.