[Opengate-devel] Ship names

[Gary L. <Ult...@gm...>]

Hi list,
Carsten and me had a short conversation about nameing ships in Opengate. =
In Jumpgate the names where=20
handled like this:

Octavius ships where called by names of flying animals.
Quantar ships where called by types of winds.
Solrain ships where called by ... um, don't know ... well something else =
:-)

So the idea came up to name the Octavius ships by typs of fire and Quanta=
r ships by typs of water. For=20
the Tauseti faction I personally prefare technical/scientifical names. If=
 you all are ok with this idea:=20
here are the lists of names which we already got, ordered from the smalle=
st ship (lowest required rank)=20
to the most impressive ship:

Tauseti (technical/scientifical)
--------------------------------

1. Lady Kickstart
2. Fuse guzzler (Sicherungsfresser)
=2E..
X. Catcher

Quantar (water)
---------------

1. Brandung
2. Tsunami
3. Kreusel
4. Rayleigh waves
5. Love wave
6. Gicht
7. Monsterwelle
8. Aegir =3D (germ.) Gott des Meeres
9. Poseidon =3D (griech.) Gott des Wassers und Meeres
10. Sedna =3D (innuit) G=EF=BF=BDttin des Meeres
11. Woge
12. Brecher
13. D=C3=B6nung
14. Seegang
15. See
16. Wellenschlag
17. Ebbe
18. Flut
19. Str=C3=B6mung
20. leises Pl=C3=A4tschern

Octavius (fire)
---------------

1. Funke
2. Irrlicht
2. Brand
3. Leuchtfeuer
4. Phoenix
5. Fl=C3=A4chenbrand
6. Feuerball
7. Hephaistos
8. Vulkanus
9. Hitze
10. Flamme
11. Sonne
12. Plasma
13. Hestia =3D (griech.) G=C3=B6ttin des Herdfeuers
14. Loki =3D (germ.) Gott des Feuers
15. Pele =3D (polyn.) G=C3=B6ttin der Vulkane und des Feuers
16. Asche

If we stay with the directions (technical/scientifical, water and fire) I=
 personaly would prefer to=20
reorder the Quantar ship names. And throw out Kreusel, Aegir, Poseidon, S=
edna, Phoenix, Hephaistos,=20
Vulkanus, Hestia, Loki and Pele. The names of the gods mainly because I d=
on't know all thouse stories=20
about thouse "gods" and haven't heared the names before (exept for Poseid=
on) and I guess that I am not=20
the only one. In my oppinion we should not support the spread of thouse s=
tupid stories. :-p

Anyway ... suggestions for other directions for a faction or additional n=
ames or comments to not wanted=20
names are welcome of course.

Regards,
Gary