Classification of Vessels

The naming and terminology of spacecraft within Ethnis

Written by Ademal

Aircraft

Wing Types

Fixed Wing

Aircraft which use elongated fins and wings to glide through the air in a controlled manner.

Rotary Wing

Aircraft powered by rotating blades, such as helicopters

Ornithopter

Aircraft which uses prehensile wings and fins as both propellant and glide.

WayShips

Subclasses

Astrodyne/Astrodynamic

A Wayship which remains actively mobile, moving from place to place rather than having a single port, such as a warship. Astrodynes are more vehicular in usage.

Astrostat/Astrostatic

A Wayship which remains relatively in-place, such as in orbit or attached to a geological feature such as an asteroid. Astrostats are more inhabitatory in usage.

Banner Intersections

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Hedon

Somnancy

Federation

Tends towards naval naming schema.

Haimarchy

Names which reference space as an auric plane beyond the sky. "The Way" is their name for space because they see it as the path through which the celestial bodies and the power of the Meta and The Wheel pass. Many vessel names reference differing species or aspects of the aeolamen, an avian species they co-evolved with.

Sorrows

Syndicate

Tends towards naval naming schema.

Pact

Etymology

Wayships: vessels which navigate the Way and its Halls.

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Shaped by the Pre-Expansion War of Terms mixed the human romanticization of space as an ocean with the Verin concepts of romanticization of space as an auric plane beyond the sky, and as the source of the power of the Sovereign. This concept, ran over the Ubiq tongue, resulted in Wayships.