Battlezone Universe

In this thread, I intend to open the floor to suggestions for names for naming everything, you must provide  reasoning behind it (I will be the judge of whether this is good enough, someone has to or we'll have another fiasco), if it does it will be added to the list.

To keep everything as unconfusing as possible the following system will be used; the cycle for choosing names will take two weeks. One week for suggestions, one week of voting. While one name is being voted on suggestions will be taken for the next.

First up to be named, the scion built ship that carries the Scions and EDF, "The pride of Argos" seems to be the current favourite, but feel free to make suggestions nonetheless.

Current list of names:
-"The pride of Argos" - the scion flagship

I've and idea. Lets name the flagship the Iliad.

I'll create a poll in this thread once we have enough suggestions. Provided, that is, that Mr X can't do it.

And while we're on the subject of naming a flagship after an epic...

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 11:06:14 AM
I've and idea. Lets name the flagship the Iliad.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, you actually have to provide the reasoning behind your suggestion. (I don't want to have to read through a whole wikipedia article for every suggestion, and I doubt the people voting do either)

Quote from: AHadley on October 25, 2009, 11:08:51 AM
I'll create a poll in this thread once we have enough suggestions. Provided, that is, that Mr X can't do it.

Its fine, I can do it myself.

I was trying to be sarcastic.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 11:42:31 AM
I was trying to be sarcastic.

And I'd have had to look something up to know that :P

Joe

How about the Athena after the goddess of wisdom and war or the Helena simply because it sounds cool.

The 17 kings of Argos:
Inachus
Phoroneus
Argus
Triopas
Agenor
Iasus
Crotopus
Pelasgus (aka Gelanor)
Danaus
Lynceus
Abas
Proetus
Acrisius
Perseus
Megapénthês
Argeus
Anaxagoras.

An alternative version of the original 17 consecutive kings of Argōs includes Apis, Argios, Kriasos, and Phorbas between Argus and Triopas, explaining the apparent unrelation of Triopas to Argus.

After the original 17 kings of Argos, there were three kings ruling Argos at the same time:
one descended from Bias
one from Melampus, succeeded by his son Mantius, then Oickes, Amphiaraus,... Alcmaeon, and Amphilochus.
one from Anaxagoras.

All those of the original 17 would make great names for various ships constructed at the Argos shipyards. Anyone one of them could be the so called 'flag ship', most likely the first built of the most recent series.

Nielk, I don't know how to choose between them :P

so...

New rule, maximum one suggestion per post.

If you could kindly pick your favourite you'd be doing me a massive favour. But to be honest, none of them sound like brilliant ship names to me...

Quote from: Mr X on October 25, 2009, 02:10:40 PM
But to be honest, none of them sound like brilliant ship names to me...

Don't take any notice of the bad man N1!

They are all great suggestions and I reckon that they should ALL be used. 17 ship types in the build tree!!

I would suggest they be some ship with some of the names, even if they are not flag ships, just because of their relation to the ship yards. However I am not particularly thrilled by any of them myself.

Just to double check.... but I'd assume BZ2 has support for accented characters like those in Megapénthês.

Can someone confirm/deny this?

Quote from: sabrebattletank on October 25, 2009, 02:35:31 PM
Just to double check.... but I'd assume BZ2 has support for accented characters like those in Megapénthês.

Can someone confirm/deny this?

I assume it doesn't.

Simply replace them with the equivalent. For example, German s-sets (sharp s) are "ss" and letters with umlauts are indicated by "ae","oe",ue" when using an English keyboard. I assume we can do the same with other accents or non standard letters, or spell phonetically.

Have it end in "a" to make it female. Ships are always female.

Quote from: Nielk1 on October 25, 2009, 02:28:40 PM
However I am not particularly thrilled by any of them myself.

New new rule, you have to have a serious belief that it has a chance. :P

Quote from: bigbadbogie on October 25, 2009, 02:20:48 PM
17 ship types in the build tree!!

Build tree? This is just for the background story, the ship never has an in mission appearance. (and it gets blown up a few missions in anyway.)

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 02:43:58 PM
Have it end in "a" to make it female. Ships are always female.

He has a point.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 02:43:58 PM
Have it end in "a" to make it female. Ships are always female.

In English they are, were they in ancient Greek? I'm ok with either answer, I just don't know.

Ancient Greece doesn't matter, because it occurs in the near future, it would be named using our ship naming practices.

Quote from: Mr X on October 25, 2009, 02:51:19 PM
New new rule, you have to have a serious belief that it has a chance. :P

I was trying to help by giving a list of names with historical relation. They could be used anywhere in the story. I do not think just throwing up a flack of more rules would help anything. It would more stifle any good ideas. I specifically brought up that the Scions will have more than 1 ship and using the listed names for the ships or for their class would have a historical relation. I just don't want to hear classes for the scions like "Constitution class".

Permission to model some Scion ships and station bits for brainstorming in my specific modding area?

I pointed VSMIT toward the name list I gave as possibly useful for BACKGROUND story. TBO I didn't actually READ my name list.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 02:43:58 PM
Have it end in "a" to make it female. Ships are always female.

That is a very American thing isn't it? Making male names female with an a is often weird sounding.

In names ending in "us" it isn't. Consider "Argus" - "Arga"

Or we could just not worry about it...

I'm voting for that one.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 02:43:58 PM
Have it end in "a" to make it female. Ships are always female.

It's not a marine vessel, it's a spaceship.

Whats the problem with making it end in "a"?

I'm going to put in my suggestion's, love 'em, or hate 'em

The Oddeyes[I know its spelled incorrectly] who battled his way through numerous beasts to get home
The Phoenix of Cerberus, because the dark planet was known as Cerberus, which became the new core, which became destroyed, and the scions have been able to get over this defeat
The Columbus, because the ship makes a new discovery of great importance.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 25, 2009, 06:58:00 PM
Whats the problem with making it end in "a"?

The fact that we'd have to tailor every name we come up with to include the "a" at the end.  It's more work than it's worth.

AND IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Quote from: iron maiden on October 25, 2009, 07:08:43 PM
The Columbus, because the ship makes a new discovery of great importance.

Or the Cook.

Why not the Magellan, then?

Cerberus is too close to Cerberi.

Magellan is actually a pretty good suggestion. Reminds me of Aquanox, I'll have a look for ship names in that later.

In the English language, words and objects to not have gender. Roman uses -a and -us, but I'm not sure what Greek uses.

All the ones that N1 suggested ended in us and thus it made sense to make them end in a. If we make it an english name we'll have to change the name to the female version of the name.

Quote from: AHadley on October 26, 2009, 05:22:34 AMRoman uses -a and -us

Latin has several declensions, and only some of them use -a and -us to express gender. -a is usually feminine or neuter, while -us is usually masculine. Remember, Latin is a case language, so the endings change based on grammatical function: e.g. "Et tu Brute." "Brutus" is his name, but it changed to "Brute" because it's function in the sentence is direct address. Further confusing things -ibus and -ebus are endings also, and are different from -us. It's not quite that simple.

For Greek declensions, check out Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_grammar#Cases

I don't think messing with the endings is a good idea, they should stay in the nominative singular of whatever declension they are, unless we want to do something like "Ship of Life" -> "Ship Vitae."

What about "The Phoenix" as a ship name?

Or the Firebird but phoenix sounds better.

Firebird makes me think Mozilla, which wouldn't be very good.

Clavin, if you haven't noticed already, people have started disregarding you.  I suggest you stop beating dead horses and attempt to make a meaningful suggestion.

That was a legitimate suggestion.

I'd like to make a suggestion, how about "The star pheonix",

Star, because it travels through space (well duh :P)
Pheonix, because its a mythical creature that flies and is quite powerful. Also, pheonixes are reborn from their own ashes which links to the time loop in the story (the cycle keeps going).

Opinions?

i will second The Magellan and The Star Phoenix as the best suggestions thus far, perhaps we should create a poll soon?

I'm giving it a week, that way everyone has a chance to suggest something.

The Preitah

The Crucible

Would you care to explain those?

please :?

How about
Unity
or
Einheid (the dutch translation)

I don't know, they are particularly linked to it in any way.

Made up names ftw!

The Ikoshawa

Quote from: Zero Angel on October 26, 2009, 02:49:26 PM
Einheid (the dutch translation)

I don't think we should words that are in languages other than English or Greek (or maybe Latin,) unless you're offering to translate the entire mod into Dutch. :p

Why would we need to translate the whole mod if we use the name 'einheid' for a ship? Is there some unwritten rule im not aware of? Explain your reasoning please.

He has no reason.

I particularly like Oka Nieba. That means "Eye of the Heaven/Sky" in Polish. Beautiful name for sky eye in a mod. You have to say it right too. It's like, O-ka N-yey-ba .

I like it too.

Quote from: Zero Angel on October 26, 2009, 08:29:35 PM
Why would we need to translate the whole mod if we use the name 'einheid' for a ship? Is there some unwritten rule im not aware of? Explain your reasoning please.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any current ships that are direct foreign words, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though. I'd kind of like to keep that vein, we are writing the mod in English as far as I know. Battlezone II was released in two other languages, French and German I think, so it would make a kind of sense to translate the mod into those two languages.

Anglicized versions of Greek seem to be the dominant linguistic influence in terms of suggestions for nomenclature. If we want to change that, that's fine I suppose, but the general consensus is to use Greek stuff/mythology to be more cannon.

Although, we could name the ship and other things in a different language to suggest that English in the future has been replaced as the dominant language by another one, and perhaps a political power shift among humanity as well from an English-speaking culture to a different one. What do you guys think about this idea?

Quote from: sabrebattletank on October 26, 2009, 09:49:17 PM
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any current ships that are direct foreign words, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though. I'd kind of like to keep that vein, we are writing the mod in English as far as I know. Battlezone II was released in two other languages, French and German I think, so it would make a kind of sense to translate the mod into those two languages.

Translating a mod is a lot of effort, if you include getting voice actors. Since most BZ2 players are capable of understanding english, I do not it should not detract from the main effort unless there was a demand for it.

QuoteAnglicized versions of Greek seem to be the dominant linguistic influence in terms of suggestions for nomenclature. If we want to change that, that's fine I suppose, but the general consensus is to use Greek stuff/mythology to be more cannon.

Canon means 'consistent with the main storyline, or 'official'. Star wars fanfics are considered non-canon because they are not officially a part of the star-wars universe.

Greeky/mythology stuff is more 'common', but that doesnt mean that one cannot break from the formula. In some cases it doesnt hurt to give the mod a unique flavor. Its just a name after all.

QuoteAlthough, we could name the ship and other things in a different language to suggest that English in the future has been replaced as the dominant language by another one, and perhaps a political power shift among humanity as well from an English-speaking culture to a different one. What do you guys think about this idea?

That would be difficult to do. Linguistics is a tough thing, if you've ever wondered why a japanese speaker possesses an accent and mispronounces certain words, its because there are sounds which exist in the english language, that do not exist in the japanese language and the japanese speaker would thus have to approximate them. The closest approximation to the word "christmas" in the japanese vocabulary would be ku-ri-shi-mas. The vocal actors would have to be trained to replicate the oddities of the vocabularity, and subtitles would have to be provided.

Quote from: sabrebattletank on October 26, 2009, 09:49:17 PM
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any current ships that are direct foreign words, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though. I'd kind of like to keep that vein, we are writing the mod in English as far as I know. Battlezone II was released in two other languages, French and German I think, so it would make a kind of sense to translate the mod into those two languages.

The Stormpetrel is the Stormpetrel in the German translation of BZ2. Stormpetrel is an English name for a bird. Characters with foreign names occur all the time, names are not translated. Any claim otherwise has no grounds and should have no effect on naming.

John Cooke doesn't become Hans Cooke or something like that.

Quote from: Zero Angel on October 26, 2009, 10:05:32 PM
Not really, the bz2 community isnt big enough to warrent all the trouble of translating it, finding voice actors, and releasing seperate versions of the mod. Most french and germans who play bz2 are capable of understanding english. I suppose it can be done, but it should not detract from the main effort unless there was a demand for it.

I completely agree. But if we were to take the time/effort, German and French make the most sense because BZ2 is released in those languages. But we won't.

Quote from: Zero Angel on October 26, 2009, 10:05:32 PM
That would be difficult to do. Linguistics is a tough thing, if you've ever wondered why a japanese speaker possesses an accent and mispronounces certain words, its because there are sounds which exist in the english language, that do not exist in the japanese language and the japanese speaker would thus have to approximate them. The closest approximation to the word "christmas" in the japanese vocabulary would be ku-ri-shi-mas. The vocal actors would have to be trained to replicate the oddities of the vocabularity, and subtitles would have to be provided.

Yes. True. I was actually thinking of only using the names of things in another language, and a Germanic one at that, because your suggestion of the Dutch "Einheid" put me thinking that way, but not the specifics of dialogue -- those would be in English. But now that does seem rather silly -- the ships' names are in Dutch but everyone speaks English? Suspension of disbelief...

That could just mean that they were built by the Dutch.

I find the language of the name irrelevant. Names of cars nowadays are either letters and numbers or made up words anyhow.

Actually, Einheid is growing on me.

Um, the ship wasn't dutch it was Scion. The Scions are super humans and huge fans of the Cthonians who were the basis of all the Greek culture. I suggest we name it Greek or maybe after some mythological beast that would show up in the Mediterranean. Say the Leviathan?

Leviathan sounds very scion like.

Quote from: Clavin12 on October 27, 2009, 08:02:49 AM
the Cthonians who were huge Greek fans

Wrong way round, the Cthonians inspired the entirity of Greek civilisation.

I do like the Leviathan though. Very nice.

Leviathan sounds like a class.

Quote from: Nielk1 on October 27, 2009, 10:24:53 AM
Leviathan sounds like a class.

Leviathan sounds like a Swarm walker...  :-P

It would sound like a walker in any race and was going to be the name of a ship in the rise of Jecova mod if it wasn't already scraped. I would go ahead with it.

Quote from: bigbadbogie on October 27, 2009, 03:25:46 PM
Leviathan sounds like a Swarm walker...  :-P

Scion walker too, the big one from SMod... but the Scions dont know about the Swarm yet so it's probably a coincidence.

which means no reason why we can't name a ship after it.

It's still probably better to come up with original names though...

How about the Artemis? She was/is the goddess of the moon, and wild things.

It doesn't sound dramatic enough.

I like it.

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 04, 2009, 07:02:58 AM
It doesn't sound dramatic enough.

The name of a ship that gets destroyed early on does not need to sound dramatic.

So is "The Pride of Argos" the only suggestion, or are we going to have a vote on a couple or something?

I prefer the Leviathan, of course.

Poll added everyone,

I'm gonna hold off naming anything else until you guys know the whole storyline.

Um...Why is the leviathan not on the list? it was legitimate and some ppl liked it.

Satisfied now?

Actually, I left it out for a reason,

Leviathon implies a monster, i.e. something evil.

But the leviathan was not evil he was simply powerful and dangerous, and very large, which is why i suggested the name, because the ship is powerful, somewhat dangerous, and very large.

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 04, 2009, 12:00:02 PM
But the leviathan was not evil he was simply powerful and dangerous, and very large, which is why i suggested the name, because the ship is powerful, somewhat dangerous, and very large.

Maybe not in Greek mythology, but in fiction on the other hand...

Well i kind of figured that we were basing this on Greek mythology and not fiction. Why would we base this name on fiction and everything else on Greek mythology? You've heard it from me before but the Cthonians are the entire basis of Greek mythology and the scions are their fans.

It still cunjoures up that image.

Who cares if it sounds evil? They will know that it is not evil when they play/read the story. And the leviathan is also a scion type name (titan, matriarch). I read ALOT and a name may paint that picture but it disappears once the story is read.

And yet you're still expecting everyone who plays the mod to read the story...

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 04, 2009, 12:36:36 PM
Who cares if it sounds evil? They will know that it is not evil when they play/read the story. And the leviathan is also a scion type name (titan, matriarch). I read ALOT and a name may paint that picture but it disappears once the story is read.

Titan I understand, but a matriarch is just the head elephant of a herd and nothing to do with the point you are trying to make,

the fact is, like it or lump it, leviathon has become synonimous with monsters.

I only read the story of FE properly on my last time through. I have a tendency to skip through briefings and debriefings, which means I often miss out on big chunks of story. When I grew out of this I realised just how much I was missing out on.

And Matriarch just meane 'female leader'.

How about the Patriarch  or the Pegasus?

The Galactica!!

love that show! :-D


[by the way, love Sabrebattletank's new picture.]

Hows this: The Napoleon

Quote from: iron maiden on November 04, 2009, 06:57:31 PM
[by the way, love Sabrebattletank's new picture.]

Thanks! It's of my own design actually, just made it yesterday.

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 04, 2009, 07:00:38 PM
Hows this: The Napoleon

Hows this: NO.

The votes are going, some of the names in the pole look pretty good.
I chose Argo II but it's tied for second ATM.

"Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? None is so fierce that dare stir him up..." Job 41:7-10

Leviathan would be an awesome name! None is so fierce that dare stir him up...

Quote from: Josiah on November 07, 2009, 08:27:43 PM
Leviathan would be an awesome name! None is so fierce that dare stir him up...

Except that the Scion ship gets destroyed early on.

it would appear that the pride of Argos is the winner...... :|

Yup, we have a clear winner, voting is now locked.

But the name doesn't make sense! Argos wasn't around to be proud of it and it was built by the scions, not the cthonians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos

QuoteArgos (Greek: Ἄργος, Árgos, IPA: [ˈaɾɣos]) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese  near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour (named supposedly after the legendary hero Nauplius).

Its named in honour of it.

QuoteBut the name doesn't make sense! Argos wasn't around to be proud of it and it was built by the scions, not the cthonians.

but Argos was supposedly something relating to the Cthonians being he was a Greek god, which were the cthonians influence on the Greeks. And it does not matter who built it, Greek history is none-the-less part of Scion history.

Those SciWogs!!

Quote from: iron maiden on November 08, 2009, 01:40:55 PM
but Argos was supposedly something relating to the Cthonians being he was a Greek god, which were the cthonians influence on the Greeks. And it does not matter who built it, Greek history is none-the-less part of Scion history.

It's been revealed that greek gods may have been influential cthonians or similar. Thus, Argos may have been a Cthonian. Maybe he was part of the Third Faction. Maybe you meet him...

Why would they name the ship after sum1 they hadn't met yet?

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 08, 2009, 02:12:00 PM
Why would they name the ship after sum1 they hadn't met yet?

They are naming it after the Greek god!!!!!!

QuoteThey are naming it after the Greek god!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!! HOW IS THAT HARD ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND!

It creates both a time loop and a twist in the story. Thus it is a good idea. I think.

For crying out loud it is made at the Argos ship yards what else would be it called?

That was never confirmed.

QuoteThat was never confirmed.

shall we confirm it now then and get on with it? Honestly we were all sailing smoothly on this until this matter came up!

Quote from: iron maiden on November 08, 2009, 07:04:27 PM
shall we confirm it now then and get on with it? Honestly we were all sailing smoothly on this until this matter came up!

Yes, let's.

Yeah, consider it confirmed. :)

New thing to name y'all,:

what are we going to name the homeworld of the third faction?

Everyone start suggesting!

Cthonia/Icarus

Oh you mean the NEW ONE!

Hmm.

Don't they need a name before they have a planet?


I mean following the name I like, Aenean, they would be from some place of related name, like Aeneas. (Aeneas/Ancient Aeneans = Rome/Ancient Romans)

Quote from: Tempest Storm on October 22, 2009, 08:43:59 PM
In Greco-Roman mythology, the Aeneads were the companions of Aeneas, who fled from Troy after the Trojan war to eventually settle in Italy and become the progenitors of the Romans. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid for more information of the story about Aeneas' travels) It doesn't quite fit entirely but if you are looking for a mythological reference, it is quite close to the mark as far as people who left their nation that was torn by war to start a new civilization bound for greatness.

The Hadeans are the basis of the Greeks, so a splinter that goes off to form something new, like, the Romans, sounds like a great base. So, I put forth the planet name Aeneas to go with Aenean, or any minor modification there of the name such as putting a D in there.

Those that split off and create Rome could have been influenced by this third group during the time they were still on Cthonia/Icarus.

Quote from: Nielk1 on November 09, 2009, 12:52:14 PM

Don't they need a name before they have a planet?

The two names dont have to be linked, we dont live on Humania, nor are we the Earthians.

Quote from: Mr X on November 09, 2009, 01:02:49 PM
The two names dont have to be linked, we dont live on Humania, nor are we the Earthians.

We're Earthlings, it's even in my spell check.

Also Icarus is not to Cthonian in that way.

Aside from Aenea, which I still think is one of the best...

My suggestion is Alyssia. It's a corruption of Elysia, a section of the underworld for heroes and other great figures. This would lead to me suggesting Alyssians. Though Elyssians or a corruption thereof would be just as good.

Better yet.... planet Elysium from TRO.

It said somewhere in the mission briefings that there were lost Cthonian cities on the planet.

I'll put in my suggestion for asphodelia, a corruption on the fields of Asphodel, the place were all the normal people in the Greek world went when they died.

What about Rythmia?

Quote from: bigbadbogie on November 09, 2009, 02:39:41 PM
Better yet.... planet Elysium from TRO.

It said somewhere in the mission briefings that there were lost Cthonian cities on the planet.

Elysium orbits our sun, just very far away.

He's right, its one of those little places no one has heard about beyond Pluto, pretty sure that's right.

Why did this thread stop? Though we were going to name the planet. :|

Aetheria, the world of the upper air, lets start a poll

how exactly do you sya that name?

Ay theer ee ya, alternate spelling: Etherea, World of the dreamy  :lol:

Ay-thee-ria

I lime the alternate version better, hints less at Aeneads.

I wholeheartedly agree

now, i think a poll is in order.

Quote from: iron maiden on November 12, 2009, 07:23:33 PM
now, i think a poll is in order.

...Why?

We have suggestions for the new factions home-world and it would appear there are no other suggestions as of yet being no one else posted int his thread for a number of days until i brought it back to the top of the pile.

The Artemus

The Artames  :-D

Quote from: iron maiden on November 12, 2009, 07:30:01 PM
We have suggestions for the new factions home-world and it would appear there are no other suggestions as of yet being no one else posted int his thread for a number of days until i brought it back to the top of the pile.

Remember what happened with the character names poll.  That's all I'm going to say about that for now.

Lets wait a little longer

Quote from: iron maiden on November 12, 2009, 07:30:01 PM
no one else posted int his thread for a number of days

I only put this up two days ago,

I'm going to leave it a few days longer, I want a better variety of suggestions ( a lot so far are similar ) before I make a poll. Whats the rush?

it seemed to me that to many suggestions could lead to a stalemate being only a small amount could possibly vote for each one.

Iron maiden:

Shut up.

(mumbles) yes sir.

This thread hasn't gone anywhere. Vote with what we have, or try to revive the discussion?

Try to revive, ill give it a day or two, then there will be a poll.

The revive has seemingly failed. Vote or further revitalization attempts?

I would go for vote.

Ok, you win, the poll is up.

I vote for Aenea, mostly because of how it sounds...  Read  (canadian) Eh - nay- ah
It's exotic and aerated and melodious. Maybe not the best thing, but...

I also like the name for the scion ship. I'm beginning to see a new trend for ship naming these days. Pillars of Autumn, Valley Forge, Andromeda Ascendant, Pax Magellanis, Pride of Argos....
One word names are so yesteryear. :) Although Pax sounds nice too.

And some other names I like:

Gaea  - (the Earth.... read Guy-Ah ) Also found as Gheea, Gaia or some other variation. It's an interesting name considering the scions are, at their core, earthlings searching for a new home. And since they couldn't find or lost one, they decided to build one and take it with them. "After Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus. She brought forth Uranus, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her"

Hyperion - is one of the twelve Titan gods of Ancient Greece, and was referred to in early mythological writings as Helios Hyperion, 'Sun High-one'. Hyperion is the titan of light and the greatest warrior under Cronus' command.
"Of Hyperion we are told that he was the first to understand, by diligent attention and observation, the movement of both the sun and the moon and the other stars, and the seasons as well, in that they are caused by these bodies, and to make these facts known to others; and that for this reason he was called the father of these bodies, since he had begotten, so to speak, the speculation about them and their nature." —Diodorus Siculus (5.67.1)
(source - Wikipedia.org, of course)

Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) ... which, seeing as the ship gets destroyed is kind of interesting.

Pillars of Creation
(http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~keeton/342/Pillars-of-Creation_sm.jpg)

I vote against the name Gaea.

I would say that Aetheria is the winner.

Don't think bad of me but its Aetheria  :-)

To late, I changed it before you posted. :-D

I'm gonna leave it open a bit longer, I'd quite like more than 8 votes.

Then till say Sunday or Monday? We have nine votes so far and they are trickling in.

I'll see how it goes, preferably I'd have about 20 votes.

i don't know, it has been a while, how about say 13-15?

I'm a bit hesitant to close it with so few votes and only one seperating the two leaders.

It's happened before.

Still not good though.

And I'm really suprised that Alyssia is in second place! :O

Quote from: Clavin12 on November 28, 2009, 08:13:32 AM
It's happened before.

This isn't before. ;)

12 votes so far, its getting close

Well whaddaya know. It's Wednesday and no more than 12 votes have been cast.

I would go for locking the voting, Aerthia is the winner.

Hmm, when the heck did I vote Aenea, for a planet I think Alyssia is best. With only 12 votes, I think the CP is quite dead.

On the other polls they closed in this much time.

Quote from: Clavin12 on December 03, 2009, 02:45:33 PM
On the other polls they closed in this much time.

I don't like your tone Clavin (as usual...)

On the other polls the person running it didn't have mock GCSEs to do.

And just for that comment, it'll be open for at least another week. :P

GCSES?

Oh nvm.

Funny, not even I voted for my suggestion and I want another name to win instead of the one I voted for.

Ok, we're on 13 votes, I think I'll wait 'till we get 15 and call it a day.

But what if we never get 15?

Remember that NK1 wants to discount his old vote. Alyssia and Atheria are in joint first place.

Well if you remember an earlier thread of mine, I voted for Artemus but now want to vote for Aerthia.

The old threads were discounted because they allowed opportunities for double-voting for some options but not for others.

Sorry, I meant to say post, not thread.

Well Mr.X, it would appear, though the result may be unimportant at the moment that Aerthia is still the leader. Shall we name a winner?

I voted for Aenea initially but as I said a while ago I prefer Alyssia now.

Which brings the poll to a tie, with no one voting. Ugh, what to do? :|

Stop the voting until we figure out what's actually going to happen with this project?

Yes?  Yes.

Yes.

Sip.