[TrashMan]

Pffffft. Yea right. Grifffins are the most powerful mythological creatures ever. The intelligence, speed, and cunning of an eagle, and the courgage, strength and ferocity of a lion. They are the perfect creatures. Dragons have NOTHING on them. Thats why in ancient greek mythlogy, gryphons pulled the chariot of the gods, and why they guarded the fabled 'golden mountain' on Crete. Dragons are pathetic overgrown lizards. And Pegasi are pathetic pansy horses. They have no sort of fighting capability. A gryphon can be ridden, and it can fight.

Bah..they would be owned by the best mithological creature ever.. PHOENIX...that dudes on fire..literary.. and can come back from the dead. It would prove to be "too hot to handle" for a measly griffin 

You think horses have no fighting capability?

A 1000kg horse! Hall, it's easy to understand why knights were so feared.. DAMN!

[aldo_14]

Pffffft. Yea right. Grifffins are the most powerful mythological creatures ever. The intelligence, speed, and cunning of an eagle, and the courgage, strength and ferocity of a lion. They are the perfect creatures. Dragons have NOTHING on them. Thats why in ancient greek mythlogy, gryphons pulled the chariot of the gods, and why they guarded the fabled 'golden mountain' on Crete. Dragons are pathetic overgrown lizards. And Pegasi are pathetic pansy horses. They have no sort of fighting capability. A gryphon can be ridden, and it can fight.

Bah..they would be owned by the best mithological creature ever.. PHOENIX...that dudes on fire..literary.. and can come back from the dead. It would prove to be "too hot to handle" for a measly griffin 

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/phoenix.html

In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun-god Re and the Greek Phoibos (Apollo). According to the Greeks the bird lives in Arabia, nearby a cool well. Each morning at dawn, it would bathe in the water and sing such a beautiful song, that the sun-god stops his chariot to listen. There exists only one phoenix at the time.

When it felt its death approaching (every 500 or 1461 years), it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire, and was consumed by the flames. When it was burned, a new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It then embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis ("city of the sun"). There it would deposit the egg on the altar of the sun god.

In Egypt is was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock, or an eagle. The phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection, and life after death. In that aspect it was often placed on sarcophagi. It is associated with the Egyptian Benu, the Garuda of the Hindus, and the Chinese Feng-huang.

Judaic lore mentions that the phoenix achieved its unique status as an immortal bird because it refrained from bothering the overburdened Noah during the Flood voyage (Sanh. 108b).

Whoo, sounds a right hardass.

[TrashMan]

So? That's not the only take on the phoenix...there are many others.

Even seen Conan (the cartoon)? Ever played Heroes of Might and Magic? etc...

[aldo_14]

So? That's not the only take on the phoenix...there are many others.

Even seen Conan (the cartoon)? Ever played Heroes of Might and Magic? etc...

It's the true mythology of the phoenix; anything else is simply making stuff up, and you can apply that logic equally to any mythology.  So really, what you're saying is that it's not the 'best mythological creature ever', but the best fictional creature ever....

[Snail]

There are many different versions of ALL these mythological creatures.

[Herra Tohtori]

I thought mythology was all about making stuff up. It just has to be made up long enough time ago.

Boy, if our civilization and history gets forgotten in a worldwide conflict or something like that, I wonder what the mythologists of the future will think about the few possible remnants of all the Marvel comics...

[Snail]

"Their religion must've been stupid."

[TrashMan]

No, they will tink that if they come across some leftover Scientology materials....

If tehy come across comics tehy will prolyl think: "The people must have been crazy to preform so many epicly catastrophic experiments and leave so many mutating chemichals around!"

[Mobius]

Griffin was the original name of what later became the Orc, right?

[Mad Bomber]

Nope. The Orc originally looked like a mini-Deimos. The Gryphon is blocky, mounts a ventral hangar, and has lots of multipart turrets.

The redone Orc (which was AGAIN redone as the larger Blade by someone else later on) does not mount a hangar and has a very different design (much less blocky than the Gryphon I might add).

[Ace]

Stick to historical references and mythology.

Shivan names are generally best if from the darker aspects of Hinduism and the Abhrahamaic traditions a little Zoroastraisim helps too.

For the Vasudans Egyptian mythology.

For the Terrans Greek, Roman, Norse and historical places/names/events work best. The more obscure the better and more ironically tied to the mission the better.

The "SD Xenu" "SD Cthulhu" and "SD Sauron" are not good examples of names. (I cringe every time Lovecraft or Tolkein is used, and black out whenever things like 'Voldemort' or 'Vader' are used as its even worse) Nor is randomly tossing together letters to make something that 'sounds good.'

Pick things that add depth to the missions and add another side to them. Something that seems straightforward can be made sinister by names referencing to something similar but different enough.

[Mobius]

We do not know which names the humanity will use...names that come from books edited in the past century might look recent...only for us.

[TrashMan]

The redone Orc (which was AGAIN redone as the larger Blade by someone else later on) does not mount a hangar and has a very different design (much less blocky than the Gryphon I might add).

That someone else would be me.

Stick to historical references and mythology.

Shivan names are generally best if from the darker aspects of Hinduism and the Abhrahamaic traditions a little Zoroastraisim helps too.

For the Vasudans Egyptian mythology.

For the Terrans Greek, Roman, Norse and historical places/names/events work best. The more obscure the better and more ironically tied to the mission the better.

The "SD Xenu" "SD Cthulhu" and "SD Sauron" are not good examples of names. (I cringe every time Lovecraft or Tolkein is used, and black out whenever things like 'Voldemort' or 'Vader' are used as its even worse) Nor is randomly tossing together letters to make something that 'sounds good.'

Pick things that add depth to the missions and add another side to them. Something that seems straightforward can be made sinister by names referencing to something similar but different enough.

Does it even sound realistic to have all ships of a race have their names from a narrow source? What, do all ships get names by a single person? I would think, that like in the normal world, ships would be named after anyone or anything

[Mad Bomber]

Using only Egyptian mythology greatly limits your naming options. Pharaohs and cities have canon examples (GVC Mycerinus for instance -- which is the Greekified version of 'Menkaure' IIRC), and even things from neighboring Libya and Nubia could to be acceptable, too, I think.

[Mobius]

Mad Bomber: Yup. Just think about the Hyksos.

Vasudan Commander: The Gryphon is better than the Dragon? Don't make me malugh, don't...make...me...ahahahahhaha!!!


I named two Orc cruisers....Scinfaxi and Hrimfaxi, monitored by the AWACS Blue Hound...eh eh...