Oolite Bulletins

Mmmm... let me shoot in another direction... Dragonfly perhaps ?

JazHaz wrote:

Killer Wolf wrote:

i think "hummingbird" fitted well, given the wings and long snout.

Not exactly a name for an attack ship, too cuddly!

well there's an antiship missile called a Penguin and a SAM called a Gammon, so...why not?

El Viejo wrote:

Has 'Shrike' (the butcher bird) been used before?

Don't think so ... it's a good name, and carries extra SF bonus points from Hyperion, too!

Disembodied wrote:

it's a good name, and carries extra SF bonus points from Hyperion, too!

Indeed!

surely there's more genus of snakes available to borrow names from!

Deadly looking ship, by the way!

Kaiserspike wrote:

surely there's more genus of snakes available to borrow names from!

Deadly looking ship, by the way!

Which is why I suggested Moloch. However, there's not that many "good" ones left - and might explain that in later episodes such as Frontier and First Encounters DB had switched to Cats and Birds.

Isn't Moloch an ancient Phoenician deity?

Most pre-Chistian deities were revamped as daemons, and their followers hunted and killed as apostates, heretics and witches.

Added to the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki] as "Hornet".

El Viejo wrote:

Isn't Moloch an ancient Phoenician deity?

I was, in this context, specifically referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorny_Devil

but you are quite right of course.

Never mind the Molochs.....

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Kaiserspike wrote:

surely there's more genus of snakes available to borrow names from!

Deadly looking ship, by the way!

Which is why I suggested Moloch. However, there's not that many "good" ones left - and might explain that in later episodes such as Frontier and First Encounters DB had switched to Cats and Birds.

oh, yeah, the Eagle and so on

Fair 'nuff

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Kaiserspike wrote:

surely there's more genus of snakes available to borrow names from!

[ . . . ] there's not that many "good" ones left [ . . . ]

Mmmm... people are not looking for snake names hard enough...

JARARACA (image) . It's actually a cousin to the fer-de-lance. The name is also popularly applied to mothers-in-law...
SURUCUCU (image)

Cheers

maik wrote:

Added to the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki] as "Hornet".

ok...

You are the author, you decide the name...