.... Are the majority of ships in Elite Dangerous named after Snakes? I have no issue or problem with this but I am curious. Were they all, or those in it, this way in the original game?
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It's always been this way in ELITE, pretty cool if you ask me.
Wotcha Chiefy,
If memory serves, and at my age quite often it doesn't, all the ships in the original 1984 game were named after snakes. We now have more ships available and the rule has been broken, especially with the aquatic mammal class ships and the Lakon trucks.
One thing I think I am going to miss with the changes is the rear-facing weapon mounts. In the original game one could set up a pair of rearward facing weapons and when jumped by Thargoids run away from them just fast enough. One could thus fly sufficiently fast to keep the Thargoids in your range, but out of theirs, and looking backwards plink them one by one. I doubt we will be offered so easy a solution this time around.
lakon itself is on the other hand associated to snakes.
It is part of the game "lore". Apparently, originally all ship models were named after snakes. o7
Not wanting to upset anyone but they were not all named after snakes, my favourite being the Moray Star Boat
There was also the Gecko, transporter, shuttle and the Worm.
There was also the Gecko, transporter, shuttle and the Worm.
i used to do the same myself. Blast the main ship with the rear Laser until it released a load of mini Thargoids. Then finish off the main ship to collect the smaller ones as Alien Artifacts - or something.
Personally i'll be leaving the Thargoids for others to sort out.
"Morays" being snake-like undersea critters (eels; the Moray was supposed to be a ship used by aquatic aliens as a flying submarine) and "Worms" being harmless, defenceless snake-like critters, that only leaves the Gecko, Transporter and Shuttle as "completely unrelated to Snakes".
When FE2 came along, we added some bird-themed combat ships (eg. Eagle, Falcon, Osprey), and cat-themed trader ships (eg. Lion, Puma, Tiger, Panther). With FFE, we added some fish-themed ships (eg. Marlin), some mythical creatures (eg. Griffin, Wyvern) and a few others.
But this still of course does not answer the fundamental question: why were all the Original Elite ships named after snakes? I guess because snakes have that "I'm a dangerous killer" vibe going...
Part of the inspiration would have been that these ships all roughly resemble the shape of the head of the snake they are named after.
Conclusive proof that Braben was a friend of Bill's!
Boring answer really, but probably correct.
The basic ship was the Cobra, so in needing names for all the other types of ship, I guess snake names came to mind most easily.
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You wouldn't really want to be flying a Lakon Badger would you? Or a Faulcon De Lacy Sea Cucumber? Snakes it is then .
I actually await the Alliance's first superiority fighter - the Mongoose.
I actually await the Alliance's first superiority fighter - the Mongoose.
I am looking forward to the Alliance Plummet
I actually await the Alliance's first superiority fighter - the Mongoose.
My Information is that the Alliance will, like the Corvette class in WW2, be naming their ships after flowers. So we can look forward to The Bluebell, Candytuft, Crocus, Marigold and Petunia etc.. If it was good enough for the RN in the Battle of the Atlantic it should be good enough for the Alliance
Alliance Pansy ?
