Laithan xenobiology, sociology and history.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:29 pm

Rochey wrote:
have a ZSU Shilka in your story!
A what?

Russian 23mm quad-barrelled SP AA weapon. Wiki

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:57 pm

also called the zeus.....used by serbs to intimate playground children and also features in the old soviet strike games, classic

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:08 pm

Based on your location and descent, try using a Thor. It's an Irish-developed vehicle-mounted quad launcher for Starstreak missiles - close AA or S2S, super-advanced target-acquisition and laser guidance, and the Starstreak itself breaks into 3 component rockets - each with a tungsten penetrator - before impact.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:10 pm

you are richard machowitz

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:12 pm

With a name like "Machowitz," I could be related...

Naw, I'm not him, I just love his show. And with Rochey writing this story, and an Irish-designed system, I HAD to throw that in.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:03 pm

I think it'd be a bit difficult to intergrate 21st century Earth vehicles with an advenced alien military.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:28 pm

And yet, we THOUGHT it would be weird to have a completely alien species - whose vocal apparatus isn't even the same as ours - who speak Irish Gaelic...

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:38 pm

Rochey wrote:

I think it'd be a bit difficult to intergrate 21st century Earth vehicles with an advenced alien military.

Why not? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, people were using Stirling SMGs.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:40 pm

Yes, but they made different noises!

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:04 pm

And yet, we THOUGHT it would be weird to have a completely alien species - whose vocal apparatus isn't even the same as ours - who speak Irish Gaelic...

Yeah, well. In the 41st millenium they speak Latin, so I reserve the right to use Gaelic.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:13 pm

IMPERATUS LUX!<yes, a 40k reference

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:25 pm

Is that a Warhammer 40k reference?

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:35 pm

yes it is

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:10 pm

It was. Warhammer 40K is set in the forty first millenium, and the language they speak is often represented as Latin (even though its a completely different language), that's where I got the idea of using a little known language (Gaelic) to represent the Laithan language.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:17 pm

Ah. I never got too involved in it, although I played the miniature wargame once or twice, about a century ago - yay carnage!