Alski
Gallente
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.01.15 07:59:00 -
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All the ships in eve have a naming convention according to what race they are.
Gallente ship names are from Greek mythology.
Amarr ship names are loosely based about religious, spiritual or general mythological words or names.
Caldari ship names are mostly all bird names, as well as some other animals such as Scorpion, Raptor, Leviathan etc.
Minmatar... are a bit more difficult, judgeing only by there capital ships (and some T2 ship names I checked) they have something vaguely to do with Norse mythology.
So... that leads us to the Obelisk (Gallente Freighter) which is an Amarr name in my opinion, and the Charon (caldari freighter) who in greek mythology was a son of Nyx (or night)
Nyx also being the mother of Moros, Thanatos, Hypnos, and Eris (among others, she got around a bit  Erebus was the father of course.)
So Nyx, Moros, Thanatos are some of the Gallente capital ships, so that means Caldari stole our freighter name! (Charon)
Providence – the Amarr freighter sounds about right, Fenrir is definitely Minmatar, Obelisk is clearly not a Caldari name so basically...
Caldari freighter doesn’t have a name.
Gallente freighter has the wrong name.
I learnt something today.
Theres actually a few more swapped and/or wrong names, but I’m not geeky enough to list them, wonder if I should bug report this.
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Alski
Gallente
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.01.15 08:42:00 -
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Edited by: Alski on 15/01/2007 08:39:17
 Originally by: Danton Marcellus
Almost all the gallente ships has a very wrong name, except maybe the Vexor.
a lot of them do fit the pattern
Ares
Astarte (Astraeus)
Charon (oh wait thats caldari)
Deimos
Erebus
Eos (Eros)
Helios
Hyperion
Moros
Nyx
Thanatos
Eris isent on the list, so there are more than likeley others thare are greek mythology related but not on the list, and Caldari stick to the nameing convention more than gallente for the T1 stuff, but yes there also a lot of odd ones as well as a few that should be on anouther races ship.
I think its safe to say the more uber it is the more likely it is to fit the naming convention.
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