User:Juval/List of allusions in the SC Universe

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Prefixes Everywhere
Ships like P-52 Merlin, M50 Interceptor or F8 Lightning showing often a combination of (two) Letter(s) and a number.

IRL, aircraft companies often name their project after itself. An typical example is the Douglas Series, D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4, ...D-10. The number is the project or design number.

This classification system used by the US / British airforce used a similar styling, but denoting a aircraft based on their type. Logically the military variant of the D-10 is KC-10 (K for Tanker, C for Cargo).

For the three examples above: F stands i.e. for "Fighter", P for "Patrol". "M" stands for Multi mission.

Prefixes like the P5G Gladius or F7C-R Hornet are very similar to the system which using the US Navy for his aircrafts. It's basically: -, the only exception is that the UEE Navy does mentioning the Manufacturer. This is not a concidence. According to the Lore, the Gladius was commonly used by the UEE Navy.

Historically, US military ships are classified with another combination, mostly a combination of letters to denote the type (like CV for "Carrier" or DD for "Destroyer"). The UEE Navy is using a very similar system for his ships.

Weapons

 * Gladius (lat. / pl. Gladii), roman short sword type. In use from 3th Century BC until 3th Century AD.
 * Sabre, a straight single-edged curved blade of the 18th Century, based on the Szabla. Originally used by turks, mongols and tatars. Cavalry weapon.
 * Cutlass, a short sabre with a broad edge. Commonly used to board ships in the 15 - 19th Century.
 * Javelin, a spear. Ranged weapon.
 * Blade, very ambiguous. Can refer to sharp metallic edge of an axe, sword or knife.


 * Scythe, originally a agricultural tool to reaping crops. In fantasy games often stereotypical used as a weapon - associated with the Reaper, Death). IRL completly useless as weapon conscribed peasants often used it as modified polearm, like the Guisarme.

Animals

 * Dragonfly, an insect.
 * Bengal, probably the Bengal tiger / or the Bengal cat. Bengal is also the name of today's Bangladesh.
 * Hornet, an insect (wasp). The Hornet is a often used name for aircrafts (i.e. F/A-18 Hornet aircraft). USS Hornet was also a US Carrier.
 * Mustang, a wild horse. Also the name of the North American P-51. A 2nd WW single seat fighter.
 * Terrapin, refers to the design of the ship. (Turtle panzer)

Pirates (Yarr!)

 * Buccaneer, a privateer.

Other

 * Reliant, probably a reference to the USS Reliant (Star Trek franchise).
 * Vanguard, probably a reference to the 2nd WW aircraft Vultee P-66 Vanguard
 * Merlin, a sourcerer or wizard in middle ages scriptures. He commonly known for his appearance in the legend of king Arthur.
 * Gladiator, probably a reference to the Gloster Gladiator, a british biplane fighter (1930s-1950s). A Gladiator (lat.) was in ancient rome a show fighter.
 * Polaris, the North Star. (In the Lore: Eponym of Adm. Hester Polaris)
 * Kingship. A wordplay with King and ship. Kingship can refer to the monarchic rule and also to King+ship (a very large ship, because Kingships are the biggest ships of the Vanduul Clans.)
 * Mauler, (very informal) someone's hand or a thug/basher.
 * Stinger, a toxic sting (of an animal).
 * Void, the attribut of Emptiness/Nothingness. Space between Galaxies or other astronomic objects.
 * Driller, a reamer or borer. (Outsch!)
 * Freelancer, a game which is often associated with Chris & Erin Roberts / Erik Peterson which left Origin and founded Digital Anvil. Anvil was the Developing studio of Freelancer (the name of the Studio appears in the name Anvil Aerospace).
 * Hull, a generic term. All Hull Variants share the same name with an size attribut: A,B,C,D, E
 * Idris, In-Lore named after the Battle of Idris IV (Idris is probrably from the arab. form of Enoch, a figure in the Bible and Quran - an surname), also the name of an ancient welsh king.

Constellation

 * Constellation-Class variants:
 * Phoenix
 * Andromeda
 * Aquila and
 * Taurus are real star constellations.

Task

 * M50 Interceptor
 * Crucible, very fancy name for a Repairship.
 * Harvester, vanduul-tech harvesting and recycling vehicle.
 * Prospector, another fancy term for a salvage ship.
 * Herald, a news reporter of the middle ages . Basically a messenger sent by a nobles to convey messages or proclamations. (Says Wikipedia.) They also had a representative function and worked as diplomats. The herald is often depicted as someone who announced the fresh news from the court. Yo.
 * Endeavor, the name appeared IRL as ship of famous Discoverer James Cook and as a vessel of the Apollo 15 mission.
 * The Hope "class"/module is a hospital.
 * the Biodome module is named Olympic (Seat of the greek olympian gods)
 * another module is named Orthos (?), from greek mythology - a dog with two heads, brother of the "famous" Cerberus.
 * Mechantman. The Banu love trading. The mechantman brings trade goods. To your front door. (If you like it or not).
 * Khartu-al, with a bit fantasy you can make Al-Khartum الخرطوم (alkhartum) with it, which is the name of Khartoum (Capital of Sudan). The term (خرطوم - khartum - means hose/tube) refers to the position of the town at the confluence of two rivers (blue and white nile).
 * However, خرطو ال (Khartu-al) has even in arabic no meaning, even it appears arabic.
 * (Al) ال is a definite article - but it stands in front of the word - not at the end. It is equivalent to the english "the". (Note: arabic is written from right to left)
 * Khartu appears to be spoken Xhart-U (in english X => a extremly throated "Ch", like in Charter) with the "typical" arabic accent.

Word Pairs

 * Prospector - Reclaimer - Redeemer.
 * Retaliator and Avenger, someone who seeks for Retribution. Avenger is also the name of a 2nd WW Torpedo-Bomber.

Mythology

 * Pegasus, from greek mythology. A divine stallion with wings.
 * Orion, from greek mythology. A giant hunter. Zeus placed him among the stars as the constellation of Orion.
 * Argo, from greek mythological. A (ultrafast) ship of Iason and 49 heroes (Argonauts). Placed as Argo Navis among the stars and later divided into Puppis, Carina and Vela.

Atmospheric phenomenon / Weather

 * F8 Lightning, a thunderbolt or flash, probably a reference to the Lockheed P-38 Lightning (2nd WW aircraft).
 * Aurora, roman godess and personification of Dawn. Can refer to the dawn or Aurora borealis / australis.