| Pages: 1 2 [3] :: one page |
| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Sublime.
   |
Posted - 2007.09.18 20:53:00 -
[61]
 Originally by: Tkar vonBiggendorf
Originally by: An Anarchyyt
Originally by: Frug
Caldari are a spinoff faction of the gallente right?
So why do all our names sound japanese?
My eve history is pretty bad, but afaik Eve takes place way in the future after a bunch of factions get cut off from earth and go through a kind of dark age before reclaiming the skies and becoming 'civilized' again.
A lot of things get lost and confused over times of turmoil. All you have to do is look back through real history to see that. And eve is that on an epic scale.
They're a spinoff of the Federation, not of the Gallente race. The Federation encompassed the Gallente, Intaki, Jin-Mei, Caldari (and their bloodlines).
The Caldari were found by the Gallente and then you know.
But I believe the rest of the info says "although any direct similarities have long since vanished."
They're two completely different groups, but they happened to develop independently on separate planets in the same solar system during New Eden's dark ages. The system is Luminaire, in Gallente space, and one of the planets is called Caldari Prime.
If you ask me, the real debate should be why the Caldari have ugly metal boxes named after birds. There shouldn't be any birds left on their original home planet after the orbital bombardment by the Gallente. They have no right to use bird names anymore! 
I wonder if Caldari Prime or New Caldari happen to be reminiscent of this planet.
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
|
Price Watcher
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 21:34:00 -
[62]
Seeing as Gallentes eat snails and frogs, sure they are french. 
POST WITH YOUR ALT!
The Shame o' The Galaxy |
Cornucopian
Gallente
Orias Fringe Enterprises
United Freemen Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 21:53:00 -
[63]
Originally by: Price Watcher
Seeing as Gallentes eat snails and frogs, sure they are french.
lol, id rather eat snails and frogs than those caldari protein packs.
-----------------------------------------------
"post with your main. delete your alt, you sad little exploiting metagamer."
Originally by: Royaldo
complete win by Cornucopian!
|
Arushia
Nova Labs
Empire Research
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 22:34:00 -
[64]
Originally by: Arron S
Gallente are of french decent, by genetics and last names.
Caldari, are more from Japanese and Finnish decent for some reason.
You've hit on it: each empire is drawn from 2 sources for names and culture.
Caldari are Japanese-Finnish
Minmatar are African-Norse
Gallente are French-Greek
Amarr I think are Hebrew-something
|
Spenz
Gallente
Dark Knights of Deneb
Against ALL Authorities
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 23:06:00 -
[65]
Every space game maker names their ships and weapons after ancient gods. NASA does the same for the most part, since the gods and the heavens are most always associated with each other.
I mean what sounds cooler, the Apollo mission, or the Montana Moon Mission, flying the Richmond V rocket carrying the Connecticut command capsule and the Longview lunar lander?
If I had an Alt I would probably post with it... |
Frug
Zenithal Harvest
101010 Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 23:36:00 -
[66]
Originally by: Tkar vonBiggendorf
If you ask me, the real debate should be why the Caldari have ugly metal boxes named after birds. There shouldn't be any birds left on their original home planet after the orbital bombardment by the Gallente. They have no right to use bird names anymore!
I agree. That issue is far more pressing. The moa looks nothing at all like a moa or anything that could ever be mistaken for a bird. They have no right at all to name those ships after birds. Name them after toasters. Except maybe the drake. The drake is pretty.
Originally by: Cornucopian
lol, id rather eat snails and frogs than those caldari protein packs.
Reprocessed snails and frogs.
- - - - - - - - - Do not use dotted lines - - - - - - -
If you think I'm awesome, say BOOO
BOOO!! - Ductoris
Neat look what I found - Kreul
Hey, my marbles |
Usarua
|
Posted - 2007.09.18 23:53:00 -
[67]
Edited by: Usarua on 18/09/2007 23:54:28
http://www.militaryfactory.com/battles/french_military_victories.asp
whats impressive is the amount of jokes that persist from americans when, without the support of french troops and french warships, they couldn't have overcome the british colonial forces. so yeah, do you spit on your own mothers IRL? just askin.
|
Usarua
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 00:02:00 -
[68]
Edited by: Usarua on 19/09/2007 00:05:32
Originally by: VinnyTheBull
French Military Victories
Linkage
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html
BTW thats a nice looking fake google page meant to make fun of the french there, too bad the URL shows its from the most ignorant website in history.
Originally by: Hllaxiu
Originally by: Trypho
As far as I know the descriptions say the Gallente bloodline is French, and the other two are not! Besides, read the description: "The Gallenteans are originally of French origin, although any direct similarities have long since vanished." 
How they know that they were of French origin after 30,000 years and at least one dark age is beyond me. In fact, according to the intro video, we don't even know where we came from - its all been lost to the mysteries of time.
Perhaps what the thing meant was that the Gallente homeworld was originally an ethnically French colony?
yes the backstory says "Originally french colonists", the shorthand description says of french origion. imo this whole thread is based on ignorance, the jokes, the OPs misunderstanding, etc. think of it as the french sending off a colonization party in the name of their country, then they get seperated just like all the other colonists, blah blah.
|
Rienholt
Exterminatus BioChemical
Brotherhood Of Steel
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 00:14:00 -
[69]
Gotta give the French credit for having balls though. Any other nation ever launch an attack in taxi cabs?
Sigs by AmbientOSX |
MotoTsume
Gallente
Clan Black Scorpion
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 00:19:00 -
[70]
Originally by: Rienholt
Gotta give the French credit for having balls though. Any other nation ever launch an attack in taxi cabs?
First Battle of the Marne
it actually was re-informents arriving from Paris that came by cabs 
----------
www.mototsume.ca
It's just a game........Or is it?
|
Rienholt
Exterminatus BioChemical
Brotherhood Of Steel
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 00:21:00 -
[71]
Originally by: MotoTsume
First Battle of the Marne
it actually was re-informents arriving from Paris that came by cabs
Oh shush...
Sigs by AmbientOSX |
MotoTsume
Gallente
Clan Black Scorpion
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 00:50:00 -
[72]
Originally by: Rienholt
Originally by: MotoTsume
First Battle of the Marne
it actually was re-informents arriving from Paris that came by cabs
Oh shush...
taxi de la Marne
----------
www.mototsume.ca
It's just a game........Or is it?
|
Aldee
Federated Holdings
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 03:41:00 -
[73]
Originally by: Usarua
alot of generalizations
If you are talking about the jokes posted in this thread I read it twice and I can't tell the ethnicity of the ppl posting the jokes.
I dont know the americans you know I guess... all the ones I know are proud of their heritage.
|
Skyle Drake
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 03:50:00 -
[74]
Edited by: Skyle Drake on 19/09/2007 03:50:48
Originally by: Illyria Ambri
True fact.. All Gallentee starships are constructed with a built in surrender button
I guess the Jove must be Americans as they have waited 4 years after the conflict started before getting involved. And then I am sure we will hear how they won it.
|
Medigan Kostas
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 04:00:00 -
[75]
Well, the Gallente (Gallente Bloodline) do look a lot like the cast and extras off the 5th Element which was a french co-production if I remember correctly.
|
xJohnnyDx
Caldari
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 04:15:00 -
[76]
Dunno if anyone pointed it out yet, but that google page is actually real, just type "french military victories", and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
Pretty funny, really.
PLACE SIGNATURE HERE
What?! [Insert event here] happened? Quick, start a new thread on the forums! |
Rilder
Caldari
THC LTD
Dogs of War.
|
Posted - 2007.09.19 05:29:00 -
[77]
Look at all those whiners about various gallente ships, saying there underpowerd...
Yea do you really wonder why ccp made there roots french.
--
|
Mithfindel
Amarr
Ordo Crucis Argenteus
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 20:49:00 -
[78]
Banana Torres asked about the Greek letters on the Amarr ships:
Well, while they might not have preserved in full, if anything at all, it is likely that the Amarr had, even at the moment of their plight, tried to preserve parts of the Bible. New Testament happens to be originally written in Greek. Some reminders of this have been carried over multiple translations, as well.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
-- Revelation 1:8
|
Phiberoptick
Gallente
KHM Corporation
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 21:18:00 -
[79]
There from "French Onions" your doing it wrong.
|
Paulo Damarr
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 22:23:00 -
[80]
The Gallente remind me more of the US with their mission to bring "Truth, Democracy and Justice to all"
|
Arushia
Nova Labs
Empire Research
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 22:31:00 -
[81]
Originally by: Paulo Damarr
The Gallente remind me more of the US with their mission to bring "Truth, Democracy and Justice to all"
Too bad the current US govenrment has such strange definitions of those. The US is hardly the world's only or best democracy.
|
Kin Hanyerec
Applied Eugenics
Cruel Intentions
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 23:12:00 -
[82]
I think greek names have something to do with the fact that the first democratic society in history was greek and the gallente being the only true democratic society in eve...
So the names doesn't come from their french origins but from the parallelism with their current society and the greek society of the past.
|
Frug
Zenithal Harvest
101010 Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 23:23:00 -
[83]
Originally by: xJohnnyDx
Dunno if anyone pointed it out yet, but that google page is actually real, just type "french military victories", and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
Pretty funny, really.
Do you know what the i'm feeling lucky button does? No? Okay.
It's not a real page. You fail.
- - - - - - - - - Do not use dotted lines - - - - - - -
If you think I'm awesome, say BOOO
BOOO!! - Ductoris
Neat look what I found - Kreul
Hey, my marbles |
cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Brutally Clever Empire
|
Posted - 2007.09.20 23:27:00 -
[84]
Gallente aren't French. They're Tau Ceti French. For all we know, Tau Ceti French are actually Swahili believing in Greek gods and goddesses.
---
Join BH-DL
Important Skills |
Wendat Huron
Stellar Solutions
|
Posted - 2007.09.21 01:27:00 -
[85]
Originally by: cal nereus
Gallente aren't French. They're Tau Ceti French. For all we know, Tau Ceti French are actually Swahili believing in Greek gods and goddesses.
Who let your prune face into this thread? Shoo!
|
xJohnnyDx
Caldari
|
Posted - 2007.09.22 03:55:00 -
[86]
Originally by: Frug
Originally by: xJohnnyDx
Dunno if anyone pointed it out yet, but that google page is actually real, just type "french military victories", and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
Pretty funny, really.
Do you know what the i'm feeling lucky button does? No? Okay.
It's not a real page. You fail.
As far as I know, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button directs you to a random website that contains your search option. Regardless of what the button actually does, my statement is correct. The google page is, in fact, real. It's through google, anyone can try it and get the same result every time.
PLACE SIGNATURE HERE
What?! [Insert event here] happened? Quick, start a new thread on the forums! |
| |
|
| Pages: 1 2 [3] :: one page |
| First page | Previous page | Next page | Last page |