'Kzak' was a name I first used for Anarchy Online in the early 2000s. I had intended to use 'Zach' but that was of course taken. I altered it to Kzak, playing as an engineer with a name that was a bit like an electrical sound became my handle and has been the online name I've been using for over 20 years now.
What's In A Name? (CMDR Name Thread)
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Well, there’s two names I go by: one online, the other in game. Darkfyre99 has a long history, starting with a sorceress I created for an AD&D game (there was no 99 at the time) which I adopted during my goth phase in my teens, and later started using online. The 99 was appended in 1999 when that name was taken once too many times whenever I registered with a new website.
Inga Stevenson, on the other hand, is one of two characters I was considering during the buildup to the original Alpha. The first was an Imperial Slave, who would have “earned her freedom” once the game went live, to explain the frequent resets that would inevitably happen during testing. The other was her nemesis in the Federation, a Neo-Abolitionist who had once “rescued” the her from a completely voluntary and quite comfortable life. Details were quite nebulous at first, but as I started developing the two, the Imperial stood out as much more interesting, so I started fleshing her out much more, starting with her grandparents and homeworld.
And then Frozen came out. Here in Minnesota, there are a lot of people of Norwegian and Scandinavian descent, so it wasn’t hard to get swept up in their enthusiasm for the film. I decided that she would favor Anna’s appearance with Elsa’s public personality, and the entire family would hail from Emerald, which of all the Imperial planets in FE2's gazette had the most interesting history for such a character.
When it came time for names of her parents and grandparents, I went to Behind The Name and their random name generator, as I frequently do when I need random names, and chose names of Scandinavian descent, and chose Stevenson (anglesized from Stephensson) for her surname. Inga, on the other hand, came the seeds of a Frozen fanfic I never got around to writing, because it's such a stereotypical Scandinavian name.
I would have assumed you loved mining. Rock Hunter is a brilliant name for a veteran asteroid miner.
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I've been Bramborough in all games for about 15 years. I happened to be reading a medieval history book at the time I named my first warrior tank in WoW. Loose reference to a historical event called the Combat of the Thirty...which was basically a "tournament rules" fight fought "in earnest" with real weapons to settle some local dispute in Brittany. One of the leading participant knights appears in varying accounts with different spellings; "Bramborough" is what I went with. (lol, his side lost and he was killed...but I just couldn't name my toon after the winner "de Beaumanoir", sounded too foo-foo).
I chose the name Ordinary Man. Because the galaxy and space are huge, but I am small and ordinary.
Even my CMDR name is spelled "ordınaryman". So all in lowercase!
Even my CMDR name is spelled "ordınaryman". So all in lowercase!
Ahhh...that's my second commander's name!Good job you didn't catch your two dogs fu........er, mating
2Dogs!
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid from making a small fortune when he used it as the theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid from making a small fortune when he used it as the theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
So you're the guy that hasn't flipped a system and changed the lives of thousands by making a few deliveries.
...and then there's that too.
Which hadn't even occurred to me, I have made a large fortune mining over the years at least whereas I hit Elite in exploration and then just kind of fizzled out - pretty much when I realised I had an extraordinary knack for discovering systems containing only barren ice worlds
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The first three letters of an older alias I used. Why the first three? The input box must’ve lost focus while I was typing and I didn’t notice until later when I tried to wing up with friends.
The first three letters of an older alias I used. Why the first three? The input box must’ve lost focus while I was typing and I didn’t notice until later when I tried to wing up with friends.
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In 1999 my friend had the internet and used to play Team Fortress Classic. We would take turns in playing and so we needed a way of distinguishing when we were each playing and I had to think of a name to put.
Only one choice really, and it became my online name going forwards.
Source: https://youtu.be/GrHf_psIszg
I'd been introduced to their music a few years earlier I've since seen them about 10 times, mostly at Glastonbury where one year I randomly met John the Flautist in this video and had a chat with him Though I saw Ed (the main guitarist and founder) and his son Silas doing a stripped back show last year too. I got to meet Ed afterwards and thank him for the now 27 odd years I've been listening to them 
Only one choice really, and it became my online name going forwards.
I'd been introduced to their music a few years earlier I've since seen them about 10 times, mostly at Glastonbury where one year I randomly met John the Flautist in this video and had a chat with him
Though I saw Ed (the main guitarist and founder) and his son Silas doing a stripped back show last year too. I got to meet Ed afterwards and thank him for the now 27 odd years I've been listening to them Ozric
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It's also worth noting that Cmdr Stevenson writes the most amazing stories during Buckyball races! That are well worth a read even if you're not running the race yourselfInga Stevenson, on the other hand, is one of two characters I was considering during the buildup to the original Alpha. The first was an Imperial Slave, who would have “earned her freedom” once the game went live, to explain the frequent resets that would inevitably happen during testing. The other was her nemesis in the Federation, a Neo-Abolitionist who had once “rescued” the her from a completely voluntary and quite comfortable life. Details were quite nebulous at first, but as I started developing the two, the Imperial stood out as much more interesting, so I started fleshing her out much more, starting with her grandparents and homeworld.
And then Frozen came out. Here in Minnesota, there are a lot of people of Norwegian and Scandinavian descent, so it wasn’t hard to get swept up in their enthusiasm for the film. I decided that she would favor Anna’s appearance with Elsa’s public personality, and the entire family would hail from Emerald, which of all the Imperial planets in FE2's gazette had the most interesting history for such a character.
When it came time for names of her parents and grandparents, I went to Behind The Name and their random name generator, as I frequently do when I need random names, and chose names of Scandinavian descent, and chose Stevenson (anglesized from Stephensson) for her surname. Inga, on the other hand, came the seeds of a Frozen fanfic I never got around to writing, because it's such a stereotypical Scandinavian name.
Scoob was a nick name given to me a while back when I bought a Subaru Impreza - "Subaru" being phonetically similar to "Scoobydoo" in English - the wheel of which is my avatar pic, actually the first digital photo I ever took. Not really sure why I adopted it as a Forum name likely just lack of imagination on my part lol. It was only a limited-use nick name among a few of the car guys down the pub I used to frequent. Very few people I know are even aware of it, but I still use it - or variant of it - on various forums. I think I've only ever used a different forum handle once and that was actually on a Subaru Forum where the name "Scoob" was somewhat redundant lol.
Long ago, when FE2/FFE was relatively new, I named my characters after the Marx Brothers. When it was time to return to Elite once the Kickstarter started, I thought about making a sixth one, but then I realised that just Marx would be easier for others to remember. Then the name was still available, both in-game and in the forums, so I just had to nab it quick before someone else did.
Also, Marx generators.
Also, Marx generators.
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absolute zero in mine, the guy that did fake loch ness photo was called marmaduke
Almost true- it was an off hand background joke from early Red Dwarf, regarding crowd control with 'rubber nuclear weapons'.
was a horse ,duke of marmalade won lots races,user name but i did different fashiion,didnt realise marmaduke so many