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Posted - 2014.11.21 02:30:29 -
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I asked the same question a while back, and the results were inclusive, but I think worth reading. Here's the short thread.
We do know that many ships are named after Terran animals (Badger, Hawk, Jaguar, etc.) But, we also know that the description for the Wolf ship says it's named for "a mythical animal." I think the issue goes back to terraforming. We know that the initial New Eden settlers terraformed planets to make them both habitable and able to support more than just Mars Lander-like life. Ecosystems were created, and they were able to sustain humans at sustenance level after the EVE Gate closed. So they had enough edible flora and fauna to support human life in a Dark Ages environment.
We also know that New Eden has native lifeforms, such as fedos and long-limbs. The must be carbon-based and breathe oxygen, because they can either survive in human environments, or are digestible. So, it seems that at least some planets in New Eden were hospitable to introduction of Terran-type life.
And, the lore points toward the early days of moving through the EVE Gate being about exploration and settling. The initial settlers had a supply chain back to Earth, and once that closed, they were in deep trouble. So, if they were living on New Eden planets, and ff they were terraforming planets to make them habitable, they must have been importing Terran DNA for the terraforming. Otherwise, they would be doing advanced DNA engineeringterraforming specific to New Eden (inside New Eden or back in the pipeline through the Gate?)
Were they advanced enough to invent new DNA to cover every aspect of a terraformed ecosytem, from virus to plant up to animal? Or did they import successful organisms from Earth as seeds or patterns? From the names of ships, it seems like they brought at least the basic hawk, badger, rattlesnake, etc. patterns with them. Maybe the creature is not exactly a hawk as we'd know it in New Eden, but it has a similar shape and lives in a similar ecological niche.
[Here's a list of ships with references to Terran animals or Terran mythological gods and entities. Many ships named after Earth animals and rather obscure mythological beings. If you name a ship after it, it's pretty much a part of the lore, no?] |