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Offline Lepanto

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What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
on: May 15, 2015, 07:14:55 pm
If one must contrast them with the NTF/Rebellion of the Week/Earth Faction of Choice, then we can't just call them 'Terrans", now can we? You can just call them the GTVA, though that designation sounds more appropriate when it includes the 'V' half of the Alliance. Personally, I think "Galactic Terrans" sounds like a good way to distinguish them from other Terran factions, though nobody seems to have used that designation thus far.

Of course, this question has no definitive answer, as :v: never bothered to address it, nor the fandom community. Because I'm probably the only one who cares. So what's YOUR preferred moniker for the Terrans of the GTVA?
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #1 on: May 15, 2015, 08:51:10 pm
Well, Blue Planet uses the nickname/epithet "Tev" for pretty much exactly the reason you stated (to focus on the T part of GTVA).
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #2 on: May 15, 2015, 10:07:01 pm
Tverrans, of course.

Hey, I wonder where "Alpha 1" hails from. Ribos? Delta Serpentis? Loyalist from Sirius?
 

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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #3 on: May 15, 2015, 10:15:56 pm
Terrans.

It's a species, not a political, moniker. If you want political affiliation, they're GTVA.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #4 on: May 15, 2015, 11:41:01 pm
In TI, we have the pirates calling them "Teevers", but that's more of a slang term for the GTVA military generally, rather than the Terran half specifically.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #5 on: May 16, 2015, 06:12:24 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on May 15, 2015, 10:15:56 pm
Terrans.

It's a species, not a political, moniker. If you want political affiliation, they're GTVA.

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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #6 on: May 16, 2015, 07:31:33 am
Yes, but what's desired here is a term that refers specifically to the terran half of the GTVA.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #7 on: May 16, 2015, 07:41:25 am
GTA.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #8 on: May 16, 2015, 07:56:49 am
Well, I had an idea of calling terrans "Earthers", because of all this home-longing sentiment.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #9 on: May 16, 2015, 08:18:34 am
'GTA' already refers to the pre-Great War organisation, and it should stay that way IMO. 'Earther' is just a recipe for confusion if you're also going to mention the actual populace of Sol.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #10 on: May 16, 2015, 08:19:34 am
'Colonials' works on a semantic basis but YMMV on whether it fits with the Freespace theme.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #11 on: May 18, 2015, 06:59:45 pm
I agree with the logic but Galactic Terrans is a bit of a mouthful to be commonly used.  I think you'd more likely end up with GTerrans for GTVA, ETerrans for Earth Alliance etc.as long as their aren't a huge number of independent factions.   Neo Terrans sort of works either way.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #12 on: May 18, 2015, 07:26:41 pm
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on May 16, 2015, 07:31:33 am
Yes, but what's desired here is a term that refers specifically to the terran half of the GTVA.

Still Terrans, unless for some reason your viewpoint outside the GTVA. It's everybody else who gets adjectivized.
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #13 on: May 18, 2015, 07:36:54 pm
Quote from: NGTM-1R on May 18, 2015, 07:26:41 pm
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on May 16, 2015, 07:31:33 am
Yes, but what's desired here is a term that refers specifically to the terran half of the GTVA.

Still Terrans, unless for some reason your viewpoint outside the GTVA. It's everybody else who gets adjectivized.
That doesn't really make sense.

"Yeah, us Terrans are currently fighting those Earthers."
"Uh... aren't they also Terrans?"
"Of course not; they're not in the GTVA."
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(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
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<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
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<MageKing17> so
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #14 on: May 18, 2015, 08:32:32 pm
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #15 on: May 18, 2015, 08:54:15 pm
A far break-away system would probably call the terran part of the GTVA "capellans", since most outworlders they'd know are capellan refugies relocated into their world by the GTVA government. It should also be quite an insulting nickname since we all know that Capella wasn't the GTVA's best moment.
I guess Sol could call them Tevs/GalTevs, exiles or Betas/Betacs/Betsys (for Beta Aquilae, capital of the GTVA).
 

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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #16 on: May 18, 2015, 09:08:35 pm
Mon-keigh? :p
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #17 on: May 18, 2015, 09:40:40 pm
GTVA = Gerrans ("Jerrans")
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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #18 on: May 18, 2015, 10:34:38 pm
Quote from: The Dagger on May 18, 2015, 08:54:15 pm
Betas (for Beta Aquilae, capital of the GTVA).

I love this one, it's so derogatory. :p
 

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Re: What to call the Terrans who live in the GTVA?
Reply #19 on: May 19, 2015, 12:24:33 am
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Galactic Terran Vasudan Alliance
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Capital: Beta Aquilae
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