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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Scotty on November 09, 2009, 09:23:45 pm

Title: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Scotty on November 09, 2009, 09:23:45 pm

Quote from: Midnight Mercenary on February 05, 2001, 08:57:00 pm

Slaying Ravana: easy; kill a Ravana

A Game of Tag: everyone knows this one

Into the Lions Den: Stupidly flying into a Shivan "den" or swarm(base of operations if you're picky)

Slaying Ravana actually means a little more than that.  It actually makes a successful allusion to the ship namer, Ravana, in Hindu mythology.  Ravana was an evil king in the Ramayana who kidnapped Rama's wife, Sita (Kappa wing?) and spirited her to his kingdom (the nebula).  In Hindu mythos, he is specifically described as being a devoted follower of Shiva.

Title: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: General Battuta on November 09, 2009, 09:31:51 pm

Oh, god, eight years. I don't think Midnight Mercenary is going to get your message, Scotty.

A spambot resurrected this thread, so it's not Scotty's fault, but still, let's start a new one if we want to discuss, okay?

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Goober5000 on November 09, 2009, 09:56:02 pm

New thread started.

And, yeesh.  I think that was the most prolific spambot I've seen.  There's got to be a special place in the Eighth Circle of Hell for spamvertisers.

Anyway, the guy is banned and all his posts are in the Recycler.  Search engines can't see inside there, I hope? -- otherwise I can just perma-delete the posts.

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Blue Lion on November 10, 2009, 11:22:49 am

What exactly is the point of this new thread then?

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Snail on November 10, 2009, 01:43:33 pm

Never read the original conversation. Want to have it again? :P

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Mongoose on November 10, 2009, 05:46:38 pm

Hell, pick anything interesting and run with it. :p

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: Blue Lion on November 10, 2009, 07:57:20 pm

How many posts did the spambot get?

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 10, 2009, 08:41:04 pm

I always preferred the Harpoon style of theme naming to the FS one.

Title: Re: Interesting mission names! (Part II)
Post by: General Battuta on November 10, 2009, 08:47:24 pm

What was that, again?