What would you name a Firefly?
POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 7, 2005 23:41
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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Complicated Childhood
Good name that.
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Deathtrap
Also quite nice.
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The Knowledge-is-Power-and-Power-is-Corruption-and-Corruption-is-Crime-and-Crime-Doesn't-Pay-DOH!
Acronyms my friend. KiPaPiCaCiCaCDPD all Cs are hard
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The Dream
That gave me an idea:
Dreamer of Dreams
just Dreamer for short.
Two ways to take it really, either it’s the person you’re supposed to bludgeon to death with rocks in Deuteronomy, or it’s from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
One way it means that you’ll stand up for what you believe in (like say your god) even if it means your death.
The other means what it sounds like, “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.”
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hmmm... thats hard u need a scary and fierce name so i guess i would name my firefly Bob Dole
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Bob.
i've always liked the name bob. i named my car bob.
Random anecdote:
Someone once asked me, for whatever reason, what I would name a radio station. He was looking for call letters, so in my trademark whimsical manner, I answered "Bob."
Just a couple days later, he walked back up - looking a bit shaken - with the news that local radio station KOOL-FM had suddenly and inexplicably decided to rename itself "Bob." And so they had. They remain "Bob FM" to this day.
Here in Madison, 105.1 The Buzz recently changed their name to 105.1 Charlie FM.
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The Lightning Bug, because it's just another name for a firefly.
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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes
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As to the part about building a full-sized Firefly, my overly rich cousin, Riley Billings, after getting his ENTIRE family hooked on the show, managed to convince them to try and do it.
All was going well.
The ship, while outwardly appearing to be a Firefly-class vessel, was actually wuite different internally, as Riley, one of his numerous cousins working in set construction, could have had "Serenity" perfectly re-created, decided that that was too easy, and designed what he would do with a Firefly if he had to own one. He designed a ship that could outrun Cruisers, outmaneuver most other Fireflys, and outshoot your average Reaver POS (or at least have a fair chance in a firefight), and, to top it all off, could play "Ride of the Valyries" at 150 dB (in atmosphere) or flood the com channels with it (out of atmosphere).
It took him a good year to pull everything together and finally get the shell built, install major systems (or their simulators), and provide power, water, and air, along with getting the viewports to show a "Space" display. Being Riley, he kept the thing secret (not hard when contracting out to family and building it on your own couple hundred square miles of Montana), and was only five or six weeks from finishing.
All that was left was the trimming details and fitting out (paint job, non-essential furniture, foodstuffs, odds& ends) and to get the external special effects (engines & weapons) on-line.
It was looking nice, and I actually slept in the thing for two nights at his behest. A little chilly in winter, but survivable, and the amount of fun I had when playing with it (the controls worked, at least as much as possible, and from the cockpit, you would swear you were in space) was an experience nearly unmatched in my life.
Unfortunately, Riley probably should have called it something other than the "Rusty Vorpal Trashscow", but, his since of humor being what it was (and the backstory he had for this ship being what it was) he couldn't bring himself to name it anything else.
Unfortunately, Riley failed to account for the fact that the sewage system his family had installed the year before was A) Not designed to support that much wait, and B) Had the main sewage tank almost directly below where the "'Scow" was built. The engineers that built the sewage system were amazed that it supported that much wait for that long.
On December 22nd, 2004, a bored pyrotechnics expert and two of his assistants decided to test the new "Weapons Fire" effects that they were making for the "'Scow".
The day before, the sewage system had apparently given in and partially collasped, settling the forward part a good 20 feet, giving the "'Scow" a mild list forward and letting a great deal of methane began seeping up into the gigantic creation.
Pyrotechnics and large volumes of methaned do not mix.
At 1135, the pyrotechnics guys tested out their new effect, using a remote control so they could observe the flames from half a mile and judge the effect from that distance (Riley had quite a few requirements).
Instead, they got to see a very impressive fireball and a great Firefly-class's death scene which lit up enough to be seen all over Riley's property. It also spread wreckage for quite a ways and launched a smaller sewage tank 24.5 miles to land on top and crush two pigs, three hens, a cow, and a brand new H2. The rather startled neighbor was busy attempting to sue for quite awhile (although he eventually accepted the settlement)-but only after getting over being drenched in long-distance sewage.
Riley has since learned to check placement on his projects.
His newest one being building a scale-model Firefly that will fly and hover. So far, nothing above 1/50th has survived more than three flights, and his first 1/10th managed to wipe out the guest house's garage (which was luckily empty). I understand that he is sticking to the smaller models for now.
As for what I would name my Firefly, Silver Lining, Phoenix Dreams, or Flaming Knucklehead would have to be it.
Oh, and Riley was heard to say th
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Actually, Fray, Serendipity is the name of the Firefly vessel in the Neverwinter Nights campaign I run. It's funny, but the player of the captain (Cy Law) has YET to see Firefly (I think he's saving it up), and CHOSE to name his ship Serendipity. The similarity to the real name was rather eerie, and yes, I think it's a great name, too!
For the record, there's an old image of the Serendipity and her original crew at:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2707
She's still flyin', too!
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Quote:That's... quite a story, son.
Originally posted by AGrey:
Unfortunately, Riley failed to account for the fact that the sewage system his family had installed the year before was A) Not designed to support that much wait, and B) Had the main sewage tank almost directly below where the "'Scow" was built. The engineers that built the sewage system were amazed that it supported that much wait for that long.
On December 22nd, 2004, a bored pyrotechnics expert and two of his assistants decided to test the new "Weapons Fire" effects that they were making for the "'Scow".
The day before, the sewage system had apparently given in and partially collasped, settling the forward part a good 20 feet, giving the "'Scow" a mild list forward and letting a great deal of methane began seeping up into the gigantic creation.
Pyrotechnics and large volumes of methaned do not mix.
A true tale of woe (if it is true).
Did anybody take pictures of this masterpiece?
(BTW, the word is "weight", not "wait")
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"Reality is whatever doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."
--Philip K. Dick
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Good question. I think Id name my ship No Limits or High Fly.
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FREAKIN' SHOW! I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damnit." ~Joss
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For some reason all my favorite ship names use the Japanese term Maru, which means only "the ship named".
Route 66 Maru
Snarkhunter Maru
Robert Anson Maru
I'd also like to name a ship The After You; you can really impress a lady on the second date by coyly admitting, "I named my ship After You."
"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? It's somebody who gets somebody else killed." -- Zoë Warren
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The Slayer.
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