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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Androgeos Exeunt on December 14, 2008, 06:47:22 am
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Quite like my Ideas for Weapon Names thread, only that it's for ships now, regardless of which race. Here are some guidelines that you (don't) have to follow:
1. When listing a ship name, either add the prefix, or state the race, such as "SC Urobach" or "Thebes - Vasudan".
2. In the case of canon factions, try to use names from the appropriate mythology (Terran=Greek, Vasudan=Egyptian and Shivan=Demonic).
3. If 2. is not possible, try something related (e.g. GTD Rangifer or SC Blattodea).
4. You can say it. ;)
Let me start off with:
- SD Stolas
- SD Beelzebub
- GVD Khasekhemwy
- GVI Giza
- UED Guoming
- UEFg Zhiyou
- ACD Kephala
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Terran=Greek
Shivan=Demonic
They're incomplete, the naming convention for Terran and Shivan names goes well beyond that.
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GTD Aristoteles and GTD Xenofanes. I'm using those two names for my novel ;)
The main heroes are on the Aristoteles and their "rivals" are on the Xenofanes.
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SC Helot
destroyed by the
GTCv Emancipator
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wait, names?? or ship-class-names?
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Reminds me of something:
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Typical_FREDding_mistakes
Read the 4-th most common mistake. There's a ship name there.
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wait, names?? or ship-class-names?
Ship names (e.g. GTD Aquitaine, GVD Psamtik, the lot).
- UED Huangrong
- UEFg Suntzu
- SC Andhaka
- SCv Mary
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GTD George W Bush... or just GTD Dubbya. It can be armed with Nuke-u-lar weapons!
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Reminds me of something:
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Typical_FREDding_mistakes
Read the 4-th most common mistake. There's a ship name there.
Reminds me of ITDoH. That offence is quite common.
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Lemme see here...
NTF
Cromwell
Lud
Vengence
Pompey
Spartacus
Tyrant
GTVA Terran
Scorpion
Thresher
Mako
Blue
Agincourt
Achilles
Agrippa
Kraken
Champlain
Stingray
Hunter
Tora
Slepnir
GTVA Vasudan
Ramila
Hathor
Re
Aziza
Abtu
Sanura
Astarte
Ka
Aziza
Chione
Ain
Kesi
Aquert
Neema
Mert
Sabah
Layla
Hesina
Dalila
PVN Vasudan
Crusader
Duty
Honor
Faith
Fate
Stinger
Fear
Reaper
Claw
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Wow, long post. :D
This gives me some ideas too.
PVC Apogee
PVD Filial
PVD Defender
PVC Liberator
PVC Conqueror
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Thing is, we know the PVN didn't use Egyptian names, so I was trying to think of universal concepts for their ship names, rather than things that might be traceable directly to Terranish origins. :P
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ASS Fartbaloney™
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ASS - Alliance Sleeper Ship
:nervous:
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SC Seyazar
SF Tarunt
SFr Juzarhe
SH Tyranzal
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Note: The letter "X" is a placeholder for the class. Do not take it literally under any circumstances.
(Also, in FS1 the Shivans were given Hindu names such as Durga, Durja, etc.)
GTX Ares
GTX Zeus
GTX Carthage
GTX Minotaur
GTX Gryphon
GTX Odysseus
GTX Ajax
GTX Achilles
GTX Virgil
SX Baal
SX Belial
SX Ifrit
SX Iskander
SX Gilgamesh
SX Echidna
SX Berial
SX Kagan
SX Nevan
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SH Tyranzal
One SH is enough, for now. :)
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Too much Inferno influence. :)
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PVC Apogee
PVCv 3D Realms
PVT Bethesda Softworks
GTC Parallax
GVC Interplay
GTD Volition
And just to prove that I'm not an idiot who goes "hey, isn't that the name of a game company! here's some other game companies with random gtva/pve ship designations!" and that I know it's also an astronomical term:
NTCv Perigee
Edit: and while I'm at it:
SCv Apex
SC Zenith (this is already used in FS1 though)
SD Nadir
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GTCv Defiant
GTD Hyperion
SCv Gorgon
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GTD Yamato
GTC Philip
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GVC Il Darak
GVF Sephr
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Note: The letter "X" is a placeholder for the class. Do not take it literally under any circumstances.
(Also, in FS1 the Shivans were given Hindu names such as Durga, Durja, etc.)
GTX Ares
GTX Zeus
SX Belial
Some of these sound (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ares) suspiciously (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Zeus) familiar (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Belial). :p
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NTD Derek Smart
GTSG Turrent
GTEP Hernia
GVD Thundering Typhoooooons
GTD Blistering Barnacles
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SD Dagon
SD Supay
SCv Angat
SCv Daba
SCv Nergal
SC Scratch
SC Arawn
SC Malek
SC Taus
GVD Set
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Earth based campaigns could have ships with names based on states, famous people etc. Just think about what names military ships have these days.
I remember at the end of the FS1 Campaign, you returned to earth and there was a GTD Washington waiting for you.
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In that case... :drevil:
GTD Kennedy
GTD Obama
GTD Lincoln
GTD Roosevelt
GTD Theodore
GTI Mississipi
GTI Missouri
GTI York
GTI Manhattan
GTI California
GTI Redmond
GTC Bush
GTC Hoover
GTC Reagan
GTC Helens
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GTSS Bush
(support-ship)
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Not obama or bush yet, it's generally the ones that have done famous things.
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Obama became famous without having to do much at all.
GTD Wellington
GTD Mandela
GTD Gandhi
GTI London
GTI Berlin
GTI Toyko
GTI (enter capital city here)
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Obama became famous without having to do much at all.
GTD Wellington
GTD Mandela
GTD Gandhi
GTI London
GTI Berlin
GTI Toyko
GTI (enter capital city here)
Oh right I forgot to mention something. When I said famous people and places, I meant only british and american famous people and places. That is what most modern day ships are named after. Gandhi, Berlin and Tokyo just dont fit. It may sound racist, but I dont name our current day warships, so meh.
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UEFg Mao
UED Guowang
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I remember at the end of the FS1 Campaign, you returned to earth and there was a GTD Washington waiting for you.
That is not in FS1, that was in a mission added by the FSPort team as a substitute for the endgame cutscene before they were able to get cutscenes working.
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Historical ship names...god knows I could pound out a longer list but I'm trying to restrict it to those that are truly memorable somehow.
Eisenhower (GTA had a destroyer by the name)
Thunderchild
Kawakaze
Richelieu
Essex
Enterprise
Saratoga
Akagi
Shokaku
Tiger
Sovereign
Kumano
Johnston
Salt Lake City
Kirishima
Yorktown
Lexington
Washington
South Dakota
Duke of York
Warspite
Scharnhorst
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It may sound racist, but I dont name our current day warships, so meh.
You are forgetting that most warships YOU see are british or americans. Dutch warships have dutch names, Spanish ships spanish ones, Japanese ships japenese ones etc.. Earth ships have... earth names, so it makes a lot of sense that there is some GTC Whilhelmina in there too.
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GTD
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GTC Whilhelmina should be GTD Whilhelmina?
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No.
Just, GTD.
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/me should have posted :wtf: two posts earlier.
PVD Tyrant
PVI Utopia
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You are forgetting that most warships YOU see are british or americans. Dutch warships have dutch names, Spanish ships spanish ones, Japanese ships japenese ones etc.. Earth ships have... earth names, so it makes a lot of sense that there is some GTC Whilhelmina in there too.
Oh right...
Well if it works that way then the ship names we should be seeing will come from the most dominant country on Earth (it stand to reason the most dominant country would have the largest navy). The way its going now, it looks like either China or India will be that dominant country.
So...Chinese ship names anyone...? :ick:
Although I'm thinking most people here will prefer British and American names, even if that won't (possibly) be realistic in the future.
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Chinese names are used by the United Earth Federation (UEF) in Blue Planet. You can see my two examples a few posts above this one. ;)
What is known (by me) at the moment is that the UEF have the UEFg Karuna and the UED Solaris for large ships. If they have more warship classes, I either forgot about them or do not know them.
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SD Asuras
SCv Bahamut
GTF Emancipator
GTD Eternal Vigilance
GTC Shepherd
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You are forgetting that most warships YOU see are british or americans. Dutch warships have dutch names, Spanish ships spanish ones, Japanese ships japenese ones etc.. Earth ships have... earth names, so it makes a lot of sense that there is some GTC Whilhelmina in there too.
Oh right...
Well if it works that way then the ship names we should be seeing will come from the most dominant country on Earth (it stand to reason the most dominant country would have the largest navy). The way its going now, it looks like either China or India will be that dominant country.
So...Chinese ship names anyone...? :ick:
Although I'm thinking most people here will prefer British and American names, even if that won't (possibly) be realistic in the future.
I still think that as GTA officers come from all around the world, we will see names from all around the world... But yeah, names from the dominating navy will dominate.
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Historical ship names...god knows I could pound out a longer list but I'm trying to restrict it to those that are truly memorable somehow.
Eisenhower (GTA had a destroyer by the name)
Thunderchild
Kawakaze
Richelieu
Essex
Enterprise
Saratoga
Akagi
Shokaku
Tiger
Sovereign
Kumano
Johnston
Salt Lake City
Kirishima
Yorktown
Lexington
Washington
South Dakota
Duke of York
Warspite
Scharnhorst
To boldly go where no copyright infringement has gone before....
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Uh...
Its a historical ship that was in WW2.
And its also the name of a modern day US Supercarrier IIRC.
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Wikipedia FTW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uss_enterprise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise
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Here are a few
GTD Sovereign
GTD Providence
GTD Dominion
and these ones with designations that don't make sense:
TSS (or FSAS) Amaterasu
TD (or FSAD) Tannischala
TSD (or FSASD) Sparrowhawk
I leave what they mean up to you.
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TSS = Terran Support Ship? (maybe more of a logistics and support ship like in BP, as support ships don't usually have names)
TD = Terran Destroyer
TSD = Terran Super Destroyer
As for the FSA ones...Free Systems Alliance?
And also esarai's personal text is making me doubt the first one is a logistics ship...
Terran Super Ship maybe?
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The Icanus of INFR1 had the prefix TSJ, which stood for "Terran Super Juggernaut".
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TSS = Terran Support Ship? (maybe more of a logistics and support ship like in BP, as support ships don't usually have names)
TD = Terran Destroyer
TSD = Terran Super Destroyer
As for the FSA ones...Free Systems Alliance?
And also esarai's personal text is making me doubt the first one is a logistics ship...
Terran Super Ship maybe?
... damn, you're good... you nailed FSA on the head... I thought that would be the hardest to guess. And you got TD. TSS is pretty close, but not quite. Same for TSD.
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TSS = Terran Stealth Ship
TSD = Terran Stealth Destroyer
?
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TSS = Terran Stealth Ship
TSD = Terran Stealth Destroyer
?
I think a destroyer is a bit big to stealth........but the stealth ship is definitely possible.
Terran Service Ship
Terran Spy Ship
Terran Support Drone
Terran Spy Drone
Can you give us some hints as to the size of the ships maybe?
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(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk124/esaraisaiea/SASDSparrowhawkcopy.jpg)
He has confirmed this to be the SASD Sparrowhawk...I think
EDIT:
Ok I cheated.
Its the Star Alliance Strike Destroyer Sparrowhawk.
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Can you give us some hints as to the size of the ships maybe?
Those are some good guesses, and inspirational ones, I might add, but the middle s stands for a word that has nothing to do with the ships function. I gave it this name just because I was fed up with the cliched-ness of Juggernaut, Superdestroyer, Colossus, etc...
Oh wow edit:
Totally misread the quoted post. TSS is 7km, TSD and TD are normal destroyer sized.
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So TSS and TSD are more along the lines of a unique designation? Like the GTVA Colossus?
And am I right in assuming the first word is "Terran"?
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So TSS and TSD are more along the lines of a unique designation? Like the GTVA Colossus?
And am I right in assuming the first word is "Terran"?
For TSS, sort of. TSD is a standard definition for a ship class, and the first word is terran.
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Terran Sleeper Ship
Terran Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious Ship
Terran STFU Ship
Terran Star Destroyer
Terran Shivan Disco-club
Man this is starting to annoy me. I don't have that much patience... :hopping:
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Terran Sleeper Ship
Terran Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious Ship
Terran STFU Ship
Terran Star Destroyer
Man this is starting to annoy me. I don't have that much patience... :hopping:
very well. It's Terran Star Ship, and Terran Strike Destroyer.
Terran Shivan Disco-club
:wakka: That has got to go in the next JAD.
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Frigate: Constellation (famous old US Navy frigate)
Frigate: Perry (after Oliver Hazard Perry, who commanded a frigate)
Shipyard: Norfolk
Shipyard: Belfast
Monitor
Virginia
Texas
California
Iowa
Ohio
Dakota
Carolina
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Arizona
Oregon
Arkansas
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Alabama
Jersey
Illinois
Indomitable
Glorious
Redoutable
Constitution
Invincible
Dreadnought
Audacious
Warspite
Hood
Gloucester
Bismarck
Mikasa
Tsushima
Yamato
Nagato
La Napoleon
De Gaulle
Patton
Dunkerque
Ostfriesland
Richelieu
Littorio
Shinano
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Petropavlovsk
Sebastopol
Oktyabrskaya
Revolutsiya
Kirov
Gangut
Minas Gerais
Sao Paulo
Rivadavia
Almirante Latorre
Yavuz
Gustav
Alright, I got carpal tunnel now. Go find some more yerselves. *grumble*
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Oh and BTW...
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/names.htm
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Uh...
Its a historical ship that was in WW2.
And its also the name of a modern day US Supercarrier IIRC.
Yeah I know, but what are people going to think of first when they see a space ship named Enterprise?
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GVD Cleo (or GVD Cleopatra as long name)
GTD Hecate (the Hecate Prototype :P)
GTD GeeTeeDee (classic from Silent Threat (ok, it's GTD GTD there ;))... and Just another Day (afaik) ;))
GTD Nova (sounds good :rolleyes: )
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Yeah I know, but what are people going to think of first when they see a space ship named Enterprise?
Fun fact; it's implied NX-1 is named after the space shuttle, which was named after the NCC-1701, which makes it named after its replacement. The mind ****ing boggles.
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Uh what are you talking about? :wtf:
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The Space Shuttle Enterprise was so-named because of a petition (?) by Star Trek fans. Ironically (in my opinion) it's original name was apparently going to be 'Constitution', which was the class of NCC-1701, and so it would have had a Trekkie (used as an adjective, I'm not talking about Star Trek fans :nervous:) name anyway.
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I still don't get this...Whats NX-1 and NCC-1701??
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NCC-1701 is the number of the original (Kirk's) Enterprise. NX-1 is the number of the Enterprise in the Star Trek: Enterprise series.
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Yeah I know, but what are people going to think of first when they see a space ship named Enterprise?
Fun fact; it's implied NX-1 is named after the space shuttle, which was named after the NCC-1701, which makes it named after its replacement. The mind ****ing boggles.
*Teal'c voice*
Indeed.
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GTVA Colossus II (We all know what I am referring to :D)
GTCv Celestial
GTD Galaxia
GTV Mystic
GTV Aqua
GTV Combust
NTF Corrupt
NTF Fusion
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GTVA Colossus II (We all know what I am referring to :D)
I think most of the community agrees that the GTVA would be making a mistake if it made a second Colossus.
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GTVA Colossus II (We all know what I am referring to :D)
I think most of the community agrees that the GTVA would be making a mistake if it made a second Colossus.
It's not exactly clear cut (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,49007.0.html) what most of the community thinks on that matter.
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Heh.
Another one of those endless FS2 debates. :D
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Hey, those endless debates belong here. That's what this board is for, right?
GTD Noiro
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Hey, those endless debates belong here. That's what this board is for, right?
I love endless debates. They rule!
GTD Tellus (Sol faction flagship?)
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GTD Vista
GTC Horadrim
GTD Elias Jung
SC Surat
SD Balrog
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GTD Vista
That name is more appropriate for an AWACS vessel.
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Which crashes all the time?
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You talk as if the word Vista was used for the first time by Microsoft. :doubt:
It's a reference to (eye)sight which fits perfectly the naming convention for AWACS vessels.
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It was a joke, Mobius.
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I know, but I now tend to take jokes in a serious way and reply accordingly.
:p
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It's strange that Terran AWACS names are taken from 1) Japanese names; or 2) high intelligence quotient.
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I know, but I now tend to take jokes in a serious way and reply accordingly.
:p
That's the whole problem, jokes aren't meant to be taken seriously.
It's strange that Terran AWACS names are taken from 1) Japanese names; or 2) high intelligence quotient.
I always thought they had something to do with sight or observation. Like the Lucidity and Panopticon. The only other named Charybdis was the Hamako.
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It's strange that Terran AWACS names are taken from 1) Japanese names; or 2) high intelligence quotient.
I always thought they had something to do with sight or observation. Like the Lucidity and Panopticon. The only other named Charybdis was the Hamako.
Snail is right. Hamako itself may be another reference to sight but I don't know that name because my knowledge of Japanese culture is limited.
Other appropriate names I used/noticed are Lens and Oculus(I've already mentioned Vista).
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AFAIK Hamako doesn't even mean or have reference to anything.
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Well, I think it's a Japanese name...like the Yo****omo.
And what does An Luchan mean?
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And what does An Luchan mean?
I've been trying to find that one out for a while, but to no success.
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I thought Hamako was skirt, or part of a uniform/armor....
Anyway, Charybdis was also the name of the black market murder on TOS BSG...
(fun trivia fact)... :D
H.O.D.: TY for posting that link, it was exactly what I was about to goolge for (naming conventions).
However, in the space age it will obviously need some revisions. At least it is a good starting point for my fanfic musings...
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Anyway, Charybdis was also the name of the black market murder on TOS BSG...
(fun trivia fact)... :D
Charybdis and Scylla were supposed to be located a few kms from the place where I live and there's a town called "Scilla" near that place. This is an even more interesting trivia fact. :P
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Not so much a trivia fact as a Mobius fact.
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And what does An Luchan mean?
I believe it's Vietnamese, and probably a place.
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I thought Hamako was skirt, or part of a uniform/armor....
I think you're thinking of Hakama, which is like a skirt, but it is not a skirt. It's full length, lots of folds, usually blue or black, and is worn by samurai when they're training to kick ass with a katana.
Hamako I don't think means anything. Closest thing I got in mah dictionary was "Beach Arc," whatever that means.
私はピザをつくりに行きますよ。。。
せかいをせいふくしたらゴジラの食べ物だ！
It's a pity that translation services won't be able to translate that properly.
oh, here's a name: GTD Gojira
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Gojira sounds like Dragon Ball... :nervous:
SC Pontianak
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Gojira sounds like Dragon Ball... :nervous:
Unable to determine whether you know about it or not, I shall, just in case, point out that Gojira is the correct form of Godzilla.
Why not. Sounds menacing in its own way. Though perhaps I'd rather see it on a Shivan destroyer.
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:lol:
Thanks for the reminder, Lobo. I only saw this term once and didn't give much thought about it.
Gojira as the name of a Shivan destroyer...good idea. Put it on a Ravana, maybe.
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SC Pontianak
NTC Oily Man
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:wtf: are you thinking about?
Heh, why not: NTC Escargot? :lol:
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Let's get into the weird ship names.
How about NTC Nummyneo? ;)
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NTC Gerbil
NTCv Condom
NTD Frakking Shark
NT Bowchickawowow
NT Spaztastic
NT Bumper
NT Twing-Twang
NT Phenylalamine
NT Shaggy
GV Numa Numa
NT Carmellendansen
NT Royal Rainbow
GT Lightbulb
SC Pwnzor
SD Trogdor
SSJ Moomoo
GT Yakitori
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...
GTCv Wraith (upgraded SOC deimos)
GTCv Infinity (deimos that recurs, DOES NOT DIE)
GTCv Night (...)
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GTCv Infinity (deimos that recurs, DOES NOT DIE)
Here's a fun fact about Transcend for you. In the early versions of it, the GTCv Generation was rather aptly named Persistence; a couple of messages and appearances in the first public release were not corrected.
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Those would be awesome for a JAD-type campaign. Internet memes all are.
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how about some of these:
Furthest extreme
Crimson bastard
Red October
Spirit of fire
Queen Ann's revenge
mother of invention
forward unto dawn
Pillar of autumn
In amber clad
staff of charon
cloak and dagger
(some of these are from other peices of fiction sauch as halo and the hunt for red october, black beard etc but the scheme/convention is sound)
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how about some of these:
Furthest extreme
Crimson bastard
Red October
Spirit of fire
Queen Ann's revenge
mother of invention
forward unto dawn
Pillar of autumn
In amber clad
staff of charon
cloak and dagger
(some of these are from other peices of fiction sauch as halo and the hunt for red october, black beard etc but the scheme/convention is sound)
Why are you reviving a 4-year old dead thread? :wtf:
Personally they seem better for mission names, not for ship names.
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how about some of these:
Furthest extreme
Crimson bastard
Red October
Spirit of fire
Queen Ann's revenge
mother of invention
forward unto dawn
Pillar of autumn
In amber clad
staff of charon
cloak and dagger
(some of these are from other peices of fiction sauch as halo and the hunt for red october, black beard etc but the scheme/convention is sound)
Why are you reviving a 4-year old dead thread? :wtf:
Personally they seem better for mission names, not for ship names.
I have to agree with the names, better for missions then ships.
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Don't bump old threads unless you have a very good reason.