Kind of off topic, but...
oasamostexianu, what in the world does your name mean? Mine springs from a private joke between me and a few of my buddies at school, having to do with a play of words on my name...
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I can't think of anything else to write...
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Originally posted by shayborg:
**oasamostexianu, what in the world does your name mean?
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o as a (a)mos - present active indicative ending for 1st, 2nd, 3rd sing and 1st plu -ar verbs en espańol
tex - everyone likes Texas
ian - as in Vespasian, Hadrian, etc.
u - everyone likes the letter "u"
(This message has been edited by oasamostexianu (edited 11-03-2000).)
In a pilot file, I name all ships the same, no mater what class.
For my 2 pilot files, the ships names are:
1. Enterprise
2. Journeyman (after the game "Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of time")
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Safey Tip: Lock the doors. And hope they don't have blasters.
--Star Wars, Episode 4, "A New Hope"
Well mine are:
PN=Patton
PSN=Winston Churchill
(Its a World War 2 thing)
I fly in a souped up Emalgha Freighter, its really rather nice!!!
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"A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning."
-Member of Emalgha Resistance
For some truly bizarre ship names, read Ian M. Banks' Culture novels. The people all have stupid pseudo-alien names like 'Diziet Sma' and the drones have strange names like 'Mawhrin Skel' but the ships all have cool phrase-based names:
Clipper Screw Loose
GCU Flexible Demeanour (GCU = General Contact Unit)
GCU Just Read The Instructions
GCU Space Monster
GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
GCU It's Character Forming
GCU Jaundiced Outlook
GCU Problem Child
GCU Big Sexy Beast
GCU Never Talk To Strangers
GCU Funny, It Worked Last Time...
GCU Of Course I Still Love You
GOU Limiting Factor (GOU = General Offensive unit)
GSV Cargo Cult (GSV = General Systems Vehicle)
GSV Little Rascal
GSV No Fixed Abode
GSV Quietly Confident
GSV Sleeper Service
GSV Uninvited Guest
GSV Use Psychology
GSV Irregular Apocalyse
GSV So Much For Subtlety
GSV No More Mr Nice Guy
GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
GSV Youthful Indiscretion
LOU Gunboat Diplomat (LOU = Limited Offensive Unit)
ROU Trade Surplus (ROU = Rapid Offensive Unit: d= demilitarised in peacetime)
dROU Zealot
Superlifter Kiss My Ass
Superlifter Prime Mover
-- Well, I like 'em.
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I got this .sig file at insanely_great.com - don't even think about taunting me!
Most often I use this system unless I get a sudden flash of inspiration:
Cargo ships beginning with the shuttle. Hauler X, where X is the number of the ship of that type
Warships: Grinner X, again where X is the Ship #
except when I get my Rebel Cruiser, then it becomes the R.S.S. Grinner. No number.
Whenever I don't use these I tend to dredge up old historical words, typically cities or battles. Names like Aleksandra, Agamemnon, Minoa (okay cultures too), Enki (and gods I guess), Hammurabi, Thor, Thoth, Odin, Ra, Marathon 
etc.
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"Competition is a good thing, Darwin thought highly of it."
-Robert Heinlein, Door Into Summer
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So many honorable names... kinda makes me wanna...
BARFHACKSNEEZEWHARFFART
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Very funny, now beam down my clothes. These ladies look rest-less..... uh-oh...
Alien's famous tongue...
"Vionions?? Voinioniommoins?? Viks? Veggies? Vegetables? Oh wait, that's a hewman plant...
SEARCH..... THEN...... ASK!!!!
Yesterdays Lunch
Disco Stu
U.E.S Jack Daniels
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Bubaganoosh. Good Pita, Bad Vionians.
My crescent warship is called the C.W.S. Saratoga. Under my editing, i'm part of a private organization called the Corocian Alliance formed to support the UE/Azdgari moves. My escorts are merely trophies of my success...three Igadzra Aradas, Former members of an Igazra (The big friggin Idadzra ship, i'm not sure on the spelling) fighter fleet.
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It is not fear that will
destroy you, but the
absence of it.
S.S. Xiphias (Arada)
I still dont know why i picked the Latin word for 'swordfish'..
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Gáttir allar áthur gangi fram um skothast skyli,
um skyggnast skyli, thvÃath óvÃst er ath vita
hvar óvinir sitja á fleti fyrir.
The Zacht arada looks like a swordfish, only without a tail.
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Relax, were not in trouble yet!
These are my ships:
Shuttle: Journeyman
Scoutship: Explorer
Helian: Voyager
Lazira: Soulblighter (Name shamelessly stolen from Myth II)
Crescent Warship: Starlight Intruder
In original EV:
Shuttle: Adventurer
Argosy: Journeyman
Corvette: Inferno
Kestrel: Death Blade
Rebel Cruiser: Viper Strike
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May the world never rest in peace.
ahhh... I forgot my pilot names.... and what ships they are
We have Tray Tor in the V.E.S. Double Agent (V. Cruiser)
Blaze in the Juggernaut (Crescent Warship)
Twisty Switchblade in the U.E.S. P.M.S (Igazra)
American Expansion in U.E.S. Manifest Destiny (UE Cruiser)
and Flatulence in the Flaming Flatulence (Aggy Arada)
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"The truth?"
"There is no spoon"
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I have just gotten a kewl UE Destroyer, named Stormbringer.
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May the world never rest in peace.
