User:Juval/List of allusions in the SC Universe

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Rome
Julius Caesar: Ivar Messer, aka Messer I. The Triumvirate (Julius Caesar was part of, killed Maximus and became de facto Dictator of Rome): The Triumvirate (Messer eliminated it, became Imperator) The Gauls: The Tevarin Corath'Thal: Vercingetorix (?) Banu: "North Africa" Vanduul: German Barbarians. Western Rome: Earth. Eastern Rome / Nea Roma - Constantinople: Terra. UEE Military: Roman Legions. "The Purge": A very unique phenomen. In the French Revolution, churches were systematically destroyed and priests murdered. Nazi Germany eliminated basically it's jewish identity by discriminating and the attempt to eliminating all Jews, destroying churches and synagogues and burning of "forbidden" scriptures. Corath'Thals Suicide: Suicide after a military defeat is an cultural phenomen in several cultures. Suicide after a military defeat exists in the Japan Samurai-Codex (Seppuku), also for Roman Marshalls (after a defeat - to rescue their honor). Members of the indian Rajputa war caste killed themselves after the arabic-muslimic invasion (Jauhar) of India. The besieged inhabitants of Masaba decided to kill themselves.

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.