@ff:

leviathan = fancy schmancy word for whale or gigantic creature, monster.

@Kimk: Assuming you're referring to Star Fighters as a name for a squadron, the idea behind it is that it's teh first fighter squad in space. It'd be the 1st Star Fighters. Yeah I know it's a bit silly, but I thought it would go nice along all the other things people come up with and actually give stupid names.
But I'm filtering things out and you're happy to know that the Star Fighters are off the list now

I like the HellJumpers btw

I already got Orion as a possible Cap Sip name, but a base might do nicely.

Cap ships -
Vishnu
Kali
Antibus
Gargantua
Brobdingnagian
Behemoth
Polyphemus

Fighter -
Chupacabra?
Sentinel
Praetorian
(I don't think I saw any of these get suggested)

I've worked out a very basic plot. It involves Russia and USA and maybe some allies.
Space colonisation has just begun and is sped up by a new Cold War between the two military forces. (Similar to the space race in the 50's and 60's)

Russia occupies the moon and Titan (Saturn moon)
USA occupies Mars.

Vast amounts of recourses are found on Europe (Jupiter's moon) by the USA and the Russians also want a piece of it, if not all.
I still need to determine what the recourses are, but it's most likely as valuable as oil is today, so it'll be a builing recourse or a fuel recourse.

Forces are about equally strong. Russians have numbers and strength, but lack dicipline and are technically behind. (less funds, less research).
USA have technically advanced material, but lack some skill and size (of ships and numbers) compared to the Russians.

3rd party

Alien of course, but with a surprise. I'm still working this out.

Also, I'm working on a timeline from present to the start of the story which I'll post later for your comments and enjoyment

Edit: Just to annoy you

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Chant with me: NO MORE CAPS! NO MORE CAPS! NO MORE CAPS! *shakes fist*

Edited by - Nickless: Username Taken on 7/10/2004 10:11:22 AM

ff wrote: "indefagitable (sp?)"

Isn't that a song by Nat King Cole?

You got the "g" and the "t" in reversed positions.

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Nick: I know Saturn has a moon named Titan (note Huygens landing objective).
Does Neptune also have a Titan moon?

Edited by - Indy11 on 7/10/2004 9:36:45 AM

oh well, Saturn, whatever, it's all the same

Neptunes moon is called Triton.

Persephone
Zeus
Achillies
Intruder
Redoubtable
Aganemnon
Pollux
Striker
Glorious
Reliant
Tiberius
Shameless

Lol, I found this great site for Russian Shipnames.

Russian military shipnames

They got some great material there. A small example:

Name: Korolev
Description: Unknown "large landing ship" (probably a Ropucha or an Alligator) in the Baltic Fleet named for its "sponsor," Korolev, a Moscow suburb. This vessel was to be equipped with a foreign satellite navigation system, a "gift" from its sponsors

Isn't that the greatest thing ever?

@ff

This is becoming a habit. AgaMemnon not AgaNemnon.

ive got a form of dyslexia, go shoot me.

*Removes silencer from Luger* With pleasure...

how about th Elchupakneebray ? *waits for response or thwacking*

think to scientists for research facilities, like Gallileo, Kepler, Curie...

Philosophers for capships, Socrates, Hermocrates, Plato...

And real life places for normal stations, Sunbury, Volgagrad, New Moscow...

I'm trying to find a decent English/Dutch to Russian translator, but all the ones I find give me standard Russian charatcers, the ones I can't read...

Anyway, I seem to remember some one here speaks/writes/understands Russian. I'm looking for the translation of Fort. All I got was &#1060;&#1054;&#1056;&#1058;, which as you might guess is nothing but spaghetti to me