Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns

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Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns

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NNlk05 wrote: November 1st, 2026, 1:07 pm
ENDW wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 12:31 am
TheWayOfTheCon wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 12:44 am
Naming discussion moved to the naming proposals thread.
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Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns

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TheWayOfTheCon wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 1:09 am
ENDW wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 12:55 am
TheWayOfTheCon wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 12:44 am It looks like a Demonoid, but constructed mainly with Herschel tracks instead of glider streams. Maybe "Herscheloid" or something along those lines?
I prefer this. In fact, the purpose of my making this is to make a ship that not constructed with glider streams.
Yeah, that's what I got inspired.
I actually don't like "Herscheloid" that much because I find it clunky, that's why I said "something along those lines" because I do want the general idea to come across. Some other name ideas I have are "Trackmover" and "Herschifter" (Herschel + shifter).
NNlk05 wrote: November 2nd, 2026, 12:44 am May I propose "stick bug"?
Stick bug sounds pretty good too, and it would fit with all the bug names we give to macro-ships. The only thing that bugs me (no pun intended) though is that there aren't any "limbs" of the spaceship. Stick bugs have pretty prominent legs, and otherwise this spaceship zoomed out looks like a boring line, like Caterpillar or Centipede (though those namesake insects have a ton of little legs rather than two large pairs).
If you look at its front and back ends, you will see something slowly wiggling. Maybe we can name it after this feature

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