[brandx0]

What does Icanus mean?Why the most powerful Terran warship has a so strange name?Wasn't it going to be renamed Apocalypse(it was maybe a torpedo)?
About "our" Icanus,the plot has changed...

I've done some checking, the only reference I can find anywhere to anything called Icanus is from a song called "Fight of Icanus" from an Iron Maiden piano tribute album

Either that or a mispelling of Icarus

[Mobius]

Neither Icarus is a good name to represent the Terran fleet.
Out GTSJ Terra is better,far better!

[Snail]

GTSJ Gaia...? I always liked 'Gaia' more than 'Terra'.

[Wobble73]

What does Icanus mean?Why the most powerful Terran warship has a so strange name?Wasn't it going to be renamed Apocalypse(it was maybe a torpedo)?
About "our" Icanus,the plot has changed...

I've done some checking, the only reference I can find anywhere to anything called Icanus is from a song called "Fight of Icanus" from an Iron Maiden piano tribute album

Either that or a mispelling of Icarus

It's the last part of the latin name for the Rocky Mountian Goat "Oreamnos americanus"



Actually it's another name for Gandalf the Grey See here under Favourite Character

[Woomeister]

Neither Icarus is a good name to represent the Terran fleet.
Out GTSJ Terra is better,far better!

The Icanus doesn't represent the Terran fleet, the Solaris does.

[Snail]

The old Solaris, or is there a new one?

[Woomeister]

The new one is basically the old one

[Snail]

So it's the GTDn Solaris and it's the flagship of the Terran fleet?

[Mathwiz6]

The Icanus "destroying" the gargant is now my backgroud.

  It looks cool

[Snail]

Which one, the first one or the second one?

[Mobius]

Wobble:that's Incanus,not Icanus.Considering that Woo never used JRRT names for his ships,I have excluded the Icanus yo be the only one.

Americanus?America,if you know it,comes from Amerigo vespucci....

[Wobble73]

Wobble:that's Incanus,not Icanus.Considering that Woo never used JRRT names for his ships,I have excluded the Icanus yo be the only one.

Americanus?America,if you know it,comes from Amerigo vespucci....

No that website definately says Icanus is another name for Gandalf, I didn't say Woomeister chose this name because of JRRT, but apart from the goat this is the only reference I can find on the web.

As for Americanus well like I said that's just part of the Latin name for a Rocky Mountain Goat and as the Rocky Mountains are in North America, I assume that's where part of it's name came from. I am not arguing latin with you, (you would know more than I!) I was just pointing it out that last part of it was Icanus

[Darius]

Icaunus

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38033.msg777791.html#msg777791

[Mobius]

Uhm,maybe we should add some Fictions for Steady.Unfortunately,they will be in Italian unless DySkO translates them.

[Admiral Edivad]

Uhm,maybe we should add some Fictions for Steady.Unfortunately,they will be in Italian unless DySkO translates them.

Translation will not be a problem.
First we have to discuss which fictions. (Maybe not here, otherwise nobody will play our campaign then... )

[Mobius]

Moving to forum......