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Newcomer / Intro Why are all the ships named for snakes?
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Eagle, Vulture, Beluga, Orca, Cutter... 
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Flying rutabagas, how kool is that.
Hmm. Rutabaga sounds like it could be a name for Alliance battle cruiser.
"Hey, come join me i this CZ. Faragut and Rutabaga are fighting each other!"
"A what the what?"
"Hey, come join me i this CZ. Faragut and Rutabaga are fighting each other!"
"A what the what?"
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I especially like the T7 snake.
But no, there is no significance.
It is just an inherited design choice.
The old Elite games used the same convention.
Eagle, Vulture, Beluga, Orca, Cutter...
Never heard of a Hauler snake either...
Or, for that matter, a Federal Assault Snake...
This naming has been introduced in the classic ELITE game back in 1984 where most ships were named like snakes too. I can hardly remember the game manual which was some sort of a introdution to the flight trader, but I think it already mentioned most ships to be named like snakes but without any known reason.
The Anaconda resembles a carrot sliced down its middle
Whereas the rear end of your Cutter in your holo-display hud looks like a voracious demon.
Pic of the original ships (and stuff):
(Did you know that a Fer-de-Lance is a snake - don't ask me why there was a Gecko though.)
Later version image.... (It's BIG):
[arrrr]
(Did you know that a Fer-de-Lance is a snake - don't ask me why there was a Gecko though.)
Later version image.... (It's BIG):
[arrrr]
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Hmm. Rutabaga sounds like it could be a name for Alliance battle cruiser.
"Hey, come join me i this CZ. Faragut and Rutabaga are fighting each other!"
"A what the what?"
Heh, heh. That would be a great troll. "Aliiance are finally getting ships! This is great! I've been waiting years for that! They're called what?...."
Because Geckos are cool. Also Moray is not a snake, it's an eel.
In my country we call it the IRS.
I always used to laugh at the comparative size of the missile in the original....absolutely huge in comparison to the ships!
You forgot Fer-de-Lance and Keelback
I hadn't registered that a Keelback is a snake too. Right on.
OK now I'm checking under my chair .. <shivers>
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The Cobra Mark III got its name from the concept of designing the ship to resemble
the head of a cobra snake. The asp names for the other ships were an expansion of
the original idea. Here's some more Elite Trivia I collected if anyone is interested.
Regards
the head of a cobra snake. The asp names for the other ships were an expansion of
the original idea. Here's some more Elite Trivia I collected if anyone is interested.
Regards
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It was actually called a Moray Star Boat, I believe it was supposed to be like that Thunderbirds plane that could be a submarine too and was developed to be space-worthy. However, yeah, a Moray is an eel but a lot of the different species have snake in their name, like Tidepool snake moray, Tiger Snake Moray, etc etc..... So I can see why they used Moray in hte name for a submarine-capable ship.
Moray Star Boat:
( No Gecko snakes though are there? ...
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