Need A Name Idea For A Map
alienchickenpie
Join Date: 2003-01-25 Member: 12710Members
Join Date: 2003-01-25 Member: 12710Members
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The station sends probes that collect samples like soil, gas and minor life-forms. The samples are gathered and sent to the research station. The research station analyzes the samples and preserves them. One day, a team of researchers found a pad of kharaa bacteria. It didn't look like a lifeform, so they packed it up as a soil sample (according to the regulations, minor life-forms should be cryogenically preserved and labeled "live sample"). The bacteria grew inside the crate, the 1 square inch sample filled the entire crate. When the inspector opened the crate, he saw a stinking, pulsating becteria mass. The most interesting feature was a semi-transperent pink "bag". The inspector poked the pink growth and it exploded. A skulk jumped out of the egg, he killed the inspector and everyone else in the docking bay.
That's a little too much detail but I felt like writing a little story..
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Something earthy, yes, it must be. Earth Science related, just named after earth things...something along those lines...just posting what I think so far. Might spark something in your mind. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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The station was Mir. Which IIRC (a while since I did russian) means Star.
Raiding mythology is good, but roman/greek/egyptian has been done to death.
Try Viking, Celtic, or Germanic, or for further afield, Hindu, Babylonian, Persian, Indonesian.
theres a billion mythologies out there.. (A. C. Clarke called the object Rama in "rendevous with rama" under the assumption that astronomers would have run out of greek names by then...)
Alternatively, focus on irony. Your station was built for corporate greed? call it ns_charity...
ns_sven-goran-erikson - england football coach. deserves to have aleast something named after him
ns_dubwa - im sure you can all work this one out...
ns_odin - god of vikings
ns_thor - god of thunder
ns_frigg - mother goddess
ns_freya (i know, it sound like hera, but its an entirely different mythology)
You could try something which matches with great explorer, like Capt. Cook or Columbus. Or maybe something relating to co-operations who only wants profit, ns_microsoft maybe (hehehe <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->).
"You nut! Now I've embarassed myself!"
*shakes him some more by the shoulders*
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<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> Fat mining companies care about life samples? Strange. It should be named after some sort of imfamous corporation with an interesting name, or a place that is a significant mining area. Or a number, if they are that cold and heartless.
ns_intrusion
ns_outbreak
ns_encounter
(mabye ns_firstencounter even tho it sounds too long u never know it could have been the area that started the hell!)
ns_ithovarswithoutflapping (j/king j/king)
alrighty i have no clue if any names are taken (yes including the last one lol) but heres my suggestions of what i would call it in your case <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
2. This mining corporation used to ignore other unthreatening life forms and eventually destroy them. The corporation started exterminating the red space slugs that crawled all over the mining planet FGSA-1435-B, one of the only planets that has large quantities of pure diamonds. When the researchers found the last specimen, they saw something spectacular, the slug wriggled a little and then the red fluid oozed out of its body. The slug became harder and harder, eventually it looked and felt like a diamond. The research team took it to the station, the tests showed that the slug's remains were indeed a pure, flawless diamond. The mining company doesn't wanna take any risks anymore, so they take every life form they find and preform all sorts of tests to make sure they don't miss anything like that again.
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Its got to mean forcefully careful, if I may make that suggestion for the ship name. They are only careful for money's sake, anyway.
<b>edit:</b> Eh, Galileo? I know I spelled it wrong, but his research had to do with planets ^.^ and so does theirs.
kinda ironic cos thats the closest start and they go really far
<b>Chimera:</b> [ki-mir-a] <i>n</i> in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing she-monster made up of the parts of various animals; an impossible fancy; a living organism in which two separate kinds of tissue exist.
ns_bleed
ns_orion
ns_hypothesis
I checked the "All NS Map" thread and couldn't find any of these names...
(just sounds cool)
ns_craeser (research backwards with the h)
ns_perturbed
ns_dust2 -_-
ns_clandestine
I ran out of names
eh whatever <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
ns_fate
ns_malific
ns_malign
ns_edict
ns_dawn
ns_mutiny <-- i like that one <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
ns_surge
ns_storm
ns_plague
ns_survey
ns_purge
ns_vanquish
ns_guile
ns_probe
Maybe ull like one <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
ns_andromeda
I'll give you all the eyecandy i made for my scrapped map.
PM me if your interested....
Sgt: So, do you have anymore mythical creatures to call the vehicle? Otherwise, we will be sticking with, the Warthog.
Griff: No...No, I'm fine.
Sgt: You sure? Unicorn, Bigfoot, Sandsquash...
Simmons: Leprechan?
Griff: Hey, shut up man. He doesn't need any help...
Sgt: Hey, Simmons, what the name of that mexican lizard? Eats all the goats?
Simmons: Ah...the Chubacabra, sir.
Sgt: Hey, Griff. Chuba-thingy, how about it? I like it. Got a <i>ring</i> to it.
Karma, the Iroquios comes from your correspondence letters. The name of the ship that is infested, I believe.
thats what this thread is becoming...<!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
hey Karma, what did you mean?