Plures Nex
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Posted - 2006.06.09 00:22:00 -
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Enough about the Norse. 
I'm more into greek mythology, so the Gallente ships caught my eye. Got interested enough to look up those that I didn't reconise, though my list is still a bit patchy.
Frigate:
Atron (Greek? see Typhon)
Imicus (Amycus? Son of Poseidon + Melia. King of Bithynia)
Incursus (Latin "an attack")
Maulus (Mallus? Ancient Mediterranean city, founded by sons of Apollo)
Navitas (Latin "Energy")
Tristan (Latin "sorrowfully")
Interceptors:
Ares (Greek god of war)
Taranis (Celtic personification of thunder)
Assault Ships:
Enyo (Greek goddess of horror, companion of Ares)
Ishkur (Sumerian god of storms)
Covert Ops:
Helios (Greek god of the sun)
Nemesis (Greek goddess of divine justice and retribution)
Destroyers:
Catalyst (latin origin)
Interdictors:
Eris (Greek goddess of discord and strife)
Cruisers:
Celestis (Latin "Celestial")
Exequror (Latin "follow to the grave/end")
Thorax (Latin "breastplate"
Vexor (Latin "to annoy"
Recon Ships:
Arazu (Babylonian god of completed construction)
Lachesis (The Disposer, One of the Greek Fates)
Heavy Assault Ships:
Deimos (Greek personification of Dread. Son of Ares)
Ishtar (Sumerian Goddess of love/fertility)
Logistics:
Oneiros (Greek - Sons of god of sleep, personifications of dreams)
Battlecruisers:
Brutix (translation of Latin ferine = "feral, untamed")
Command Ships:
Astarte (Phoenician goddess of fertility and reproduction)
Eos (Greek personification of dawn, mother of the four winds)
Battleships:
Dominix (Latin "Demesne" - land/estate)
Megathron (megaron? Central hall/room of house in Mycenaean Greece)
Industrials:
Iteron I (Latin "say again/repeat")
Iteron II (Say again)
Iteron III (Say again)
Iteron IV (Say again)
Iteron V (Say again  )
Transport Ships:
Occator (Greek good of harrowing (leveling plowed ground), worked under Ceres (goddess of growing plants))
Viator (Latin "Traveller/messenger")
Freighters:
Obelisk (Large four sided monolith)
Dreadnoughts:
Moros (Greek personification of Doom. Son of Erebus and Nyx, brother of Thanatos)
Carriers:
Thanatos (Greek personification of Death)
Nyx (Greek embodiment of night)
Titans:
Erebus (Greek embodiment of the primordial darkness, son of Chaos)
Doomsday Weapon:
Aurora Ominae (Aurora is the Roman goddess of dawn (who announces the arrival of the sun), Ominae is latin "foreshadow")
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