[MrBig101]

I don't know if this goes here, but what the hey.

On the way to the outer banks in North Carolina (I just got back), there's a place called the "Harbinger Center".  You know, the buttkicking bomb?  There is also a Harbinger street.  

Harbingers 4tw!

[BlackDove]

Then it's settled. The next time I need to kill a Demon, I'll go to that street to rearm.

[Solatar]

There's also a real life word....

har·bin·ger   (härbn-jr)
n.

    One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.


tr.v. har·bin·gered, har·bin·ger·ing, har·bin·gers

    To signal the approach of; presage.

[MrBig101]

Awesome, didn't know that.  Guess I should read the dictionary more...

[karajorma]

All the names in FS2 have a meaning. In fact the meaning is often relevant in other ways. There have been numerous topics about the choice of the Hindu goddess Shiva as the name used for the enemy race in the game for instance.

[Charismatic]

Very interesting...

[Kosh]

Almost all of the FS1 and FS2 names come from mythology. Probably the most obvious is "Orion".

[Gapie]

How about the Hercules? "The fighter which won the great war", cant be more symbolic than that

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by karajorma
There have been numerous topics about the choice of the Hindu goddess Shiva as the name used for the enemy race in the game for instance.

Shiva's a bloke

[achtung]

Theres a place in france called Aquitaine.

[BlackDove]

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


Shiva's a bloke

Always mix him up with Kali The goddess of dissolution and destruction seems as much of a natural as Shiva. Which makes the name an even more interesting choice. I don't think anyone would have batted an eyelid at fighting the five legged, beam using Kalians so it wasn't just the way the name sounds that resulted in the choice

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Swantz
Theres a place in france called Aquitaine.

A fortress, IIRC.

[Solatar]

Also is/was a province, IIRC.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by karajorma
I don't think anyone would have batted an eyelid at fighting the five legged, beam using Kalians

Bleah.  No, Shivans sounds better.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


Shiva's a bloke

yes, but too many people have played mortal kombat to know that.

[MicroPsycho]

The first place I saw "Shiva" was in FF7, she was a god or something of the ice element so i figured that Shivans were meant as a creature that is cold(cold as in a personality trait), and someone who is cold is often cruel and heartless so that's what I figured it meant. I did know that shiva was a real god in some religion too, but I didn't know anything about it.

[EtherShock]

I'm really surprised some of you didn't make these connections before. What about the tsunami bomb, or the Ursa, Zeus, Lucifer? C'mon some of these are blatantly obvious...as long as you had Greek mythology for the most part. There are some Norse mythology references as well, such as Mjolnir - Thor's hammer, quite an appropriate name for the RBC. Oh, there's also the Egyptian references used for the Vasudans.

There's a whole site that explains the names of the craft and ship names.

[Boomer]

Did anyone realize the significance of the Galatea?  Hmmm?

I wish I knew how the spoiler code worked...

Galatea was a nymph to the Greeks and also one of the fifty Sirens.  Also according to Ovid, Galatea was a statue of a beautiful maiden carved by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite.

[Nuclear1]

And one of the more important references is actually explained ingame: ETAK, a shortened form of Etemenanki, was a name of a massive ziggaraut built to honor Marduk (this isn't explained; what I'm about to say is), and is also popularly identified with the Tower of Babel from Judeo-Christian beliefs. The Tower was constructed to join men and the gods, and there would be the reference to Bosch wishing to join humanity with the Shivans.

Additionally, Iceni happened to be a Celtic tribe in Britain that revolted against the Romans. For this reason, the missions involving the Battle of Deneb have names such as "The Place of Chariots" and "The Romans Blunder".