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Ship Names
ShadedExalt:
Pretty sure HamsterVI had a pretty robust thread on this awhile back, but that was almost a year ago. Basically, state the names of your ships, and why you named them as such. I'll go first:
Pyramidion: Fist of the Unicorns: Named after the armor/band name abbreviation from Halo 4. Abbreviation is FOTU(S), and the name itself is from a fictional band comprised of UNSC Marines on the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. Also rams.
Squid: HMCS Team Sloth: HMCS stands for 'Her Majesty's Canadian Ship', and Team Sloth is a reference to my OTP, and the irony that sloths are really slow.
Galleon: HMCS Wanderlust: It's a Galleon. Galleons were common exploration ships. Also it sounds cool as hell.
Junker: HMCS Arkos: Arkos is another Ship of mine, and sounds really cool. It sounds kinda brawl-y, which fits, as I go Meta/Close Disable.
Spire: HMCS Freud Was Right: ...I don't think I'm allowed to explain this one...
Mobula: HMCS Hailfire: I love Hades.
Goldfish: HMCS Gold Rush: Mainly a Hwachafish, named for the golden rockets rushing at your face, and my tendency to ram. Name changed to And He's OK for Lumberfish (Monty Python, anyone?), and Shaken Champagne for Blenderfish. Because *pop*!
I think I got everything.
DJ Logicalia:
Aww, I like this thread.
All of my ships (minus my Junker) were named after personal affects of existential philosophers
Pyra: Albert Camus' Coat: Algerian born, french philosopher, Albert Camus just might be my favorite thinker of all time. And the French are nothing if not good dressers. Look at that man's coat
Squid: Kierkegaard's Collar: Another one of may favorites, and that guy had a big collar
Galleon: Kafka's Hairgel: Kafka had some tidy hair. He had to hold that mess down with something
Junker: Sensei Tipz n Trix: Named for Bard founder, friend, and Sensei to all the early Bards who has since been eaten by Dota 2
Spire: Dostoevsky's Beard: Brilliant Russian novelist and owner of a pretty rad beard. The spire is long and kinda beardlike. Plus, it's fun to say FEAR THE BEARD whenever I 1v1 a metamidion with my gat/flak spire
Mobula: William James' Eyes: One of the most important figures in early psychology and a philosopher with a pretty intense gaze.
Goldfish: Nietzsche's Stache: Because of Nietzsche and his lovely facial hair. Doubles as a shoutout to Nietzsche's Mustache from [Clan] Clan Clan (who also has some great ship names)
Replaceable:
Junker: Dancing Daniel. Reference to froggers junker, started when Me and melon decided to copy them for a Sunday community skirmish. Plus I want Daniel to notice me- you may seem a theme there ;)
Munker:(with support guns that aren't mines.) : The Bunker. Basically so I can begin a match with: "Welcome aboard The Bunker, A Junker, that is also a Munker."
Munker with all mines and 2 gunners: The Thaedael. Once I ran this ship for miki N ead's birthday we apparently got a 29 win streak. It is named after Thaedael of CsM after his exceptional work as the only engineer on board.
Pyramidion: The Charging Daniel. Pyramidions charge. Also: Daniel.
Metamidion (never been flown.) : Libgtk. Because plagiarism is funny.
Squid: Party squid: Reference to this song. This is how it feels to squid: http://youtu.be/uw59yqDV8Xk . Maybe it should be Daniel party?? Hmm.
Goldfish: The flapping Daniel. The fins of a goldfish flap. Also: Daniel.
Galleon: The Robust Daniel. Tankiest ship in the game. Also: Daniel.
Spire: zxx_swag_merc_xxz (or some variation probably dashes idk.) Reference to the fateful day a couple of us tried to get a 360 across the dunes flak kill. With mercuries of course. It didn't work and I wasted everyone's time :D even leto who was recording me. xD
Mobula: Daniel the Matador. One must fly a mobula like a matador. One cannot really outrun a raging bull you must dodge it. In guns of Icarus the bull is a metamidion or a blenderfish. Also: Daniel. Since he also taught me how to mobula.
Enough Daniel for you?
No?
Me neither.
Patched Wizard:
The threads of my theme shouldn't be too hard to weave together.
Goldfish: Damascus Koi
Damascus Steel, floating metal, used in forging the sharpest edges with forgotten techniques originating in the jungles of India and migrating along the silk roads through the Middle-East and into eastern Europe.
Junker: The Last Tsar
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Romanov, Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland; Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.
Squid: Burning Autumn
The "Red Forest", once known as "Wormwood", is now a land locked in a permanent autumn of red and ginger brown after razor winds of radiation poured out from the skeletal corpse of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Galleon: Koschei the Endless
A man held together with magic and bone; his death is hidden separate from his body inside a needle, which is in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in an iron chest, which is buried under a green oak tree, which is on the island of Buyan in the ocean.
Pyramidion: Siberian Cossack
Originating from the root word to mean "free man", the Cossacks were a nomadic people with semi-militeristic communities who inhabited the sparse and empty corners of the world.
Spire: Baba Yaga
One or three, ferocious and wild, manic in appearance, flies in a mortar, wields a pestle, and equally inclined to help you as much as she is to harm you.
Mobula: Cathedral of Kitezh
When the Golden Horde rushed the town of Kitezh they found fountains of water bursting forth from the earth and watched as God enveloped the town in holy water to protect the pure souls who dwelled under the radiant domes of the cathedral.
Arturo Sanchez:
*sigh
might as well.
Japanese for-Bring it on (in a slang/dialect used by gangsters and delinquents-hence some idiot weaboo reported it for being offensive when its actually just a phrase), as well as Koi being a type of goldfish. Koi also meaning love which can also be used with the synonym Ai (kanji looks like my avatar), of which AI is the tag of my clan.
The Kakatte Koi is my trademark ship. Destroying bazzillions of ships with just AI crew back in the old lobby days under the old name target practice. Making people get all cocky that they think I'm the target practice, but right at the start of combat, that I am in fact NOT the target practice. But far too slow to realise it.
the rest are pretty much references to things.
Tried to make it as christmassy as I could with bright colours and party theme. But meh... its not quite right. I only ever fly a junker as a munker, seeing as I can fly a galleon far better than a junker with meta build. And at least with the Galleon I make up its slowness for a strong hull.
While a junker is kinda... not as solid for a ship that naturally moves slow and needs to be even slower for decent broadside accuracy. (common noob misconception is broadsiding is high speed drive bys that miss the target because a ship in motion effects shot trajectory)
Well as for the short comings of its christmas side, it makes up for in sky with as many bird motifs as I can cram. Hurry up with that christmas theme!
Named after the Norse god Odin's steed that had 8 legs and ran really fast... in mid air... also first tried asquid on a wednesday so...
Named after the warhammer 40k machine god or void dragon, who's awakening could spell the destruction of all humanity. Kinda like a galleon that's left alone.
Mine specifically. Also pirates, because out of everything this thing actually looks like a ship. Even with a crows nest that does nothing.
Originally named derriere because of a Pyra's rear looking like a butt. Now named chung's choice which is named after the engines in the game. And pyra's like getting shot in the engines.
*shrug
I found my own sun. Praise it.
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