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Corrinus Amarras
Auctoritan Syndicate
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.02.24 12:46:00 -
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on the auguror discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augur
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Buyerr
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Posted - 2008.02.24 14:24:00 -
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very nicely done here, would be cool if they added a bit of info on WHY the designers of the ship choice the name "rp" related that is
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JabJabVVV
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.02.24 14:33:00 -
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Edited by: JabJabVVV on 24/02/2008 14:33:58
The Rhea is also a flightless bird (presumably named after the mythological Rhea)
Nice list though :) explained some of the ones I didn't know.
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Vienna Gates
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.02.24 14:47:00 -
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 Originally by: Val Vympel
Edited by: Val Vympel on 24/02/2008 03:48:17
Edited by: Val Vympel on 24/02/2008 03:35:27
Originally by: Esiel
Edited by: Esiel on 24/02/2008 03:11:42 augoror ???
In Portuguese the word: Agurar means "to wish" or simply to "auger".
Augoror could also be derived from the word Augurio which means "omen".
These words are commonly used in Portuguese my native language. Augoror could be a very obscure Latin word.
Interesting job you have done here..kudos
As for Maller I have not a clue as to it's origen.
HAHA! Temos Tuga aqui eh. 
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Tandin
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Posted - 2008.02.24 14:53:00 -
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You listed the Panther as a spotted central american cat. You're thinking of the Jaguar. In the Americas, a panther is the same as a Puma, Couger, or Mountain Lion. They're all regional names of the same species (or possibly sub-species) of cat.
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Nef Erator
New Age Solutions
New Age Solutions Amalgamated
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Posted - 2008.02.24 15:23:00 -
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Edited by: Nef Erator on 24/02/2008 15:23:24
You mentioned Rhea and Charon not fitting... did a little further digging...
Charon like I think you said is to do with ferrying people across Styx. Charon is the name of the ferryman, I believe? So it kind of fits, but not quite as it's a person not an animal... I also found reference to Charon as a sub-genus for some mammal species (there's a species of Gerbil with that name, apparantly, but I doubt this was the influence.
Rhea is also a bird, related to Ostriches... http://www.eggcrazy.com/rheainfo.html
There are videos of one on YouTube too I think if you look for them :)
Also you mentioned about Ferox meaning feirce. This is true but it is also a species of fish... http://www.fishing.co.uk/article.php3?id=329
It's a kind of trout, apparantly. I remembered seeing it on a TV programme a short while ago.
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Ky Vatta
Caldari
Majority 12
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Posted - 2008.02.24 15:36:00 -
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 I believe the Augoror is supposed to be Augurer, a Roman soothsayer
Also a Maller is an old way of spelling Mauler, a brawler
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Giovanni F
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Posted - 2008.02.24 15:39:00 -
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Edited by: Giovanni F on 24/02/2008 15:41:10
On the Charon subject, I'm sure most would agree that the name would belong more fittingly with the Gallente ships, considering that Charon was the son of Erebus (the Gallente Titan) and Nyx (the Gallente Carrier).
Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize that Charon fits Caldari if a you a little between the lines reading. Caldari is essentially a coalition of mega coroporations (money), and Charon would not ferry people across Styx unless he was paid, so maybe its CCPs reference to the fact that Caldari won't ship a large amount of goods or services (in its Freighter), unless they get paid.
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Grimpak
Gallente
Trinity Nova
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Posted - 2008.02.24 16:01:00 -
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Originally by: Vienna Gates
Originally by: Val Vympel
Edited by: Val Vympel on 24/02/2008 03:48:17
Edited by: Val Vympel on 24/02/2008 03:35:27
Originally by: Esiel
Edited by: Esiel on 24/02/2008 03:11:42 augoror ???
In Portuguese the word: Agurar means "to wish" or simply to "auger".
Augoror could also be derived from the word Augurio which means "omen".
These words are commonly used in Portuguese my native language. Augoror could be a very obscure Latin word.
Interesting job you have done here..kudos
As for Maller I have not a clue as to it's origen.
HAHA! Temos Tuga aqui eh.
eu, ele, e uns poucos mais .
anyways, "augurar" doesn't seem the correct word. more like "agoirar".
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Blaise Farmoon
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.02.24 16:44:00 -
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Nice compilation.
Need list compiled alphabetically by ship name for quickee reference also.
/get on it!
//why hasn't it been done yet? j/k trying to make you feel like a dev
///how many blackbirds are there in eve ship types - I bet you will miss two
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DasDizzy
Terr0r F0rce
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2008.02.24 17:09:00 -
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maller is a fish iirc
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Shizuka Muto
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Posted - 2008.02.24 18:46:00 -
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Nice work!
Originally by: Giovanni F
Edited by: Giovanni F on 24/02/2008 15:41:10
On the Charon subject, I'm sure most would agree that the name would belong more fittingly with the Gallente ships, considering that Charon was the son of Erebus (the Gallente Titan) and Nyx (the Gallente Carrier).
I think Thanatos is the son of Erebus and Nyx, too. At least this one fits well...
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Kyra Felann
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2008.02.24 18:48:00 -
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Originally by: F'nog
You're forgetting Latin, your original language. Any romance name in Eve comes from Latin, the mother of all civilized tongues, except for Greek which owns Latin in every way possible.
Except for all the Germanic languages...and Gaelic languages...and pretty much all Asian languages. Other than those, yup, all civilized tongues are derived from Latin.
English itself is mostly Germanic with quite a few borrowed words from Latin, Greek, French (due to the Norman conquest) and other languages.
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Xanos Blackpaw
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2008.02.24 20:18:00 -
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actuly the hyena is much closer related to the Herpestidae family than the canids...
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Louis DelaBlanche
Cosmic Odyssey
Cosmic Anomalies
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Posted - 2008.02.24 20:35:00 -
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Originally by: Marine HK4861
Originally by: Esiel
heavy interdictors
onyx - a cryptocrystalline form of quartz??
I thought it referred to an African antelope species, but on further digging, the actual word is Oryx.
A naming mistake by CCP?
Maybe. I rekon whoever chose the name was a fan of pokemon. Onyx was a kewl pokemon . Or theyre a fan of the rap crew, but thats less likely I think
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Esiel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.24 20:39:00 -
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Edited by: Esiel on 24/02/2008 20:43:16
Ok updated with latest information, A big thanks to Cotton Tail for making Sin and JabJabVVV for rhea these make much more sence , also thanks to Ishina Fel for leading me to Augoror, Meiyang Lee for the extra info on buzzard, and due to popular demand I added male duck (I knew about it but like to think it was all about the dragon rather than a wimpy duck) Maller still doesn't sit well with me and I have to think it is more than just a mallet or the stuff I came up with from last name dictionaries.
As for why did I do this, it had nothing to do with too much time but more to do with my insatiable curiosity and once it gets going I have to find out. I started to wonder about certain names of ships it soon spread to trying to figure out all the names, at first I just did simple searches but it spread and so I did it. No other reason than I wanted to know.
I would still love to have people let me know if they find a better meaning to some of these words. And if someone wants to do the faction ships and other npc ships feel free for now I am not planning on doing it
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Esiel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.24 20:46:00 -
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Originally by: Tandin
You listed the Panther as a spotted central american cat. You're thinking of the Jaguar. In the Americas, a panther is the same as a Puma, Couger, or Mountain Lion. They're all regional names of the same species (or possibly sub-species) of cat.
they Jaguar and panther are the same cat, I found the information and basically did a cut and paste on the panther
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Mithrantir Ob'lontra
Gallente
Ixion Defence Systems
The Cyrene Initiative
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Posted - 2008.02.24 23:07:00 -
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Just a few observations
Rhea is also the name of the wife of Kronos and mother of Jupiter.
Thorax is the Greek word for torso, and later was also meaning the breastplate.
Astarte was a Babylonian entity and not a Greek one.
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Zycorax II
UNITED KINGDOM MAYHEM
Capital Storm
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Posted - 2008.02.24 23:27:00 -
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Most of my favorite ships namesakes latin names end on "corax". :)
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Hugh Ruka
Caldari
Exploratio et Industria Morispatia
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Posted - 2008.02.25 08:52:00 -
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hey very nice list.
I would not agree with a few of the names. But what struck me most is your Ferox explanation.
Ferox - I think the fish is not in line with the racial naming. I'd say this is more to the point.
But I am a caldari fanboi :-)
Originally by: Aravel Thon
Originally by: Nith Batoxxx
Hi my alt just leanred to fly the ferox...............
I am so so terribly sorry...
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Dahin
Maza Nostra
oooh Shiny
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:27:00 -
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on a funny sidenote, lemme spell to you what your "eve online"-alike title sounds like in greek (the charset you used):
"kssvkss thplinx" (used kss to avoid silent x's that seem approriate in the first word)
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Rillek Ratseye
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:34:00 -
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Nice list.
I always thought that the Drake was a pirate ship named after Francis Drake
A duck? It suddenly lost its apeal!
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Uzuness
Caldari
stone grave haulage
PROBABLE CAUSE
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:53:00 -
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Edited by: Uzuness on 25/02/2008 09:53:37
Rohk: Righteous Purpose
Raven(maybe): Homogenous Clarity
Drake: Unyielding Hierophant
Badger: Sublime Transcendence
Rormorant: Aegis Fate
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RaTTuS
BIG
Ka-Tet
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Posted - 2008.02.25 10:54:00 -
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Edited by: RaTTuS on 25/02/2008 10:54:11
Mastodon
Mammoth
Stupid forums ate my post
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Gealbhan
Caldari
The SAS
The Kano Organisation
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Posted - 2008.02.25 10:57:00 -
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Copied and saved into a word document, thanks.
*stamps this thread with: [WIN] *
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Veeva InRage
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Posted - 2008.02.25 12:06:00 -
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(German) Maller is (as far as i can find) based on the techniques of "fireburnpainting" (very loose translation) which result in the stained glass. Exerpt from wikipedia:
Coloured glass has been produced since ancient times. Both the Egyptians and the Romans excelled at the manufacture of small coloured glass objects (Perhaps it has a latin based name close to Maller?). The British Museum holds two of the finest Roman pieces, the Lycurgus Cup, which is a murky mustard colour but glows purple-red to transmitted light, and the Portland vase which is midnight blue, with a carved white overlay.
In Early Christian churches of the 4th and 5th centuries there are many remaining windows which are filled with ornate patterns of thinly-sliced alabaster set into wooden frames, giving a stained-glass like effect. Similar effects were achieved with greater elaboration using coloured glass rather than stone by Muslim architects in Southwest Asia. In the 8th century, the Arab chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) scientifically described 46 original recipes for producing coloured glass in Kitab al-Durra al-Maknuna (The Book of the Hidden Pearl), in addition to which 12 recipes were inserted by al-Marrakishi in a later edition of the book. Jabir also described the production of high quality coloured glass cut into artificial gemstones.
Another exerpt a bit furtherdown:
Stained glass, as an art form, reached its height in the Middle Ages when it became a major pictorial form and was used to illustrate the narratives of the Bible to a largely illiterate populace.
In a way you can say that a maller is a preacher of sorts, portraying the word of faith in figures instead of letters, which would connect with the religious background of the Amarr, next to the general refference of churches using stained glass as a very important religious ornament.
hope that helps.
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Savesti Kyrsst
Minmatar
White-Noise
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Posted - 2008.02.25 13:02:00 -
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Very nice work.
I always thought that "Onyx" was a name for an Egyptian wading bird, perhaps an archaic name for another species? The internets show no evidence on a thorough google/wiki search, so I'm probably wrong.
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Emennt
Caldari
SRBI
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Posted - 2008.02.25 13:29:00 -
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Edited by: Emennt on 25/02/2008 13:34:47
Edited by: Emennt on 25/02/2008 13:32:21
Edited by: Emennt on 25/02/2008 13:31:04
Edited by: Emennt on 25/02/2008 13:30:14
Originally by: Ishina Fel
As for Maller, I can offer the mallet, a large wooden hammer; derived from that is the word malleable, which means that something is shapeable. So I guess Maller could mean "someone who beats things into their proper shape" 
In my language (Serbian) Maller but with one 'L' (Maler)means "someone who brings bad luck" either to himself or to others, i i thing it means more or less the same thing in other Slavic languages
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Zaphod Jones
Minmatar
Quam Singulari
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.25 13:58:00 -
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Edited by: Zaphod Jones on 25/02/2008 13:57:59
lookups on http://www.pantheon.org/ for all your mythology needs
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Emennt
Caldari
SRBI
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Posted - 2008.02.25 14:08:00 -
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Originally by: Kyra Felann
Originally by: F'nog
You're forgetting Latin, your original language. Any romance name in Eve comes from Latin, the mother of all civilized tongues, except for Greek which owns Latin in every way possible.
Except for all the Germanic languages...and Gaelic languages...and pretty much all Asian languages. Other than those, yup, all civilized tongues are derived from Latin.
And old Slavic language...
Belarus , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine...all of those countries languages have same ancestral language (old Slavic)...and before you say it, yes most of those countries basicly the exact language
Some of those languages are writen in cyrillic and some in latin and some have both cyrillic and latin alphabets (Serbia) and will all those diversity we can pretty much understand each others when talking or writing in own native language
so it is possible that some names are taken from Slavic based languages as i said "Maler" bringer of bad luck, and it fits with Amarr naming very good and is the best explanation as far as i have seen posted here
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