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Ship Names
Mysterious Medic:
Eh, why not. Although, I have to admit that sometimes when I name a ship after an African general, it's just because his name sounds cool ;)
Pyramidion: Ulfberht- strongest viking sword, there are a few good documentaries about how ahead of its time it was. I've named my Pyramidion after it mainly because of its known ability to thrust through shields (poke poke hehe).
Goldfish: Mansa Musa- one of the richest emperors of all time, he ruled over Mali during the peak of its wealth. Essentially, the Goldfish looks very regal in appearance, almost like the expensive car of the Icarus world. I like to imagine I'm just carrying sacks and sacks of merchant gold on this ship.
Junker: Lex Celera/Ignis Ferrumque/Dolly's Hoax Celery- There was a point very early on in my piloting career where I named ships in Latin (This was a while before SPQR was a thing though ;D). The first was Lex Celera, which means "swift justice". Back in those days before the nerf it was mainly a triple artemis junker, because really what justice is more swift than having all your components taken out as your armor slowly dies and you can't do anything about it? The next addition was the Ignis Ferrumque which means "Fire and Sword", as with this build (hades art art) the "Fire" was the hades and the "Sword" was the artemis. Finally, most recently it was called "Dolly's Hoax Celery" because Daniel reinvented his Hoax clan we all joined and Dolly thought "Celera" sounded too similar to celery.
Mobula: Luna Descendens- this ship changed names a few times but this name is mainly a play on Hillerton's "Solis Ortum" which means Rising Sun. We were practicing on Fjords or something and I decided to take a mobula to compliment his Pyra and I decided to call it the "Falling Moon" in latin. It also makes sense as the Mobula has a lot of white space and it has plenty of vertical acceleration so the "moon is falling on you" so-to-speak hehe.
Galleon: Nkunda- named after the African general. Not much to say other than it sounded cool and scary. I think he may or may not be accused of war crimes....
Squid: Kabila- African general again. Still sounds cool. War crimes...?
Spire: An Bas- I'm not entirely sure what it was called before this, but at some point before the light flak buff, me and Geo were in a lumber spire and I decided to add a hades and two flaks (sorta semi-inspired by Crafeksterty's Hwacha Hades-flak-flak spire). While were playing in pubs since the two flaks killed so quickly, someone called it the "Death ship" or something to that effect in match chat, so I decided to look up the what the grim reaper was in Celtic, and came up with this name. Turns out, google was wrong, and someone told me this ship actually means "Grim Reaper Fish". We thought it was funny so I kept the name.
Extirminator:
I rarely ever pilot, but I might as well contribute a bit.
Squid-
My most flown ship, formerly known as 'Firefly' - a squid with two flamethrowers that became horribly op with that one patch that broke flamers. Since then I changed it to a flamer banshee, and changed the name to Agile Seafood. Thought it was quite fitting for a squid.
Galleon-
It is baring the goddess decal and the royal theme, and is named RTR. Which is the initials for the Royal Tank Regiment of the British army, it is fancy and royal enough for the British and quite tanky to be in the Royal Tank Regiment.
Pyramidion-
With mainly flying a double mercury pyramidion, my pyramidion is efficient in cutting deep into the armor. It is named Higonokami.
Higonokami is a type of Japanese knife, and as I decorated my pyramidion to be of eastern look, I thought it was fitting to call a double mercury like that.
Higonokami knife-
Spire-
The spire is a spin on my IGN, Extirminator. taking the Ex from it and adding the spire - to get Ex-Spired.
It both signifies the expiration of the spire as a valid competitive ship, and the expiration of the enemy if flown correctly.
Mobula-
My mobulas usually consist of some mines, which with it's immense firepower capabilities, I decided to name my mobula Operation Crossroads. Operation crossroads was an experimental operation of the US for underwater nuclear mines. With immense firepower and mines, the mobula resembled it quite a bit.
Nuclear testing in operation crossroads near the island of Bikini.
Goldfish-
My goldfish is usually a carronade/lumberjack front, with support of a mine. The idea is to pop the enemy balloon, and then mine them from above.
I decided to call my goldfish with this tactic in mind- Ranken Dart. The Ranken Dart is an ammo type used in WW1 by the british, against German Zepplins. it was a heavy bomb with a sharp face to penetrate the balloon. It was dropped from bombers above the zepplins, to penetrate the balloon and then detonate inside of it, to cause heavy damage. Which is exactly the purpose of the build I use - popping the balloon, and detonating explosives from above.
Ranken dart bombs-
Junker-
My primary junker build is a double flamer side, and gat mortar on the other side. Which leads to very messy and brutal engagements. With the addition of the materials and style that the junker is built, it is a very improvised, highly lethal flying weapon platform. I decided to call my Junker Guerrilla warfare because of those facts.
ShadedExalt:
Didn't the CASTLE BRAVO thermo-nuke blow up most of Bikini?
Extirminator:
--- Quote from: ShadedExalt on January 05, 2015, 08:45:40 am ---Didn't the CASTLE BRAVO thermo-nuke blow up most of Bikini?
--- End quote ---
Castle Bravo was a part of Operation Castle and was detonated in 1954. Operation Crossroads was before Castle, it was in 1946.
ShadedExalt:
Thank you for the clarification. :)
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