TR Community Competition 3: Give this creature a name!

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:33 pm

The Dwemer Explodo needs a proper name. We have come up with nothing in our brief brainstorming for a name, so we are hoping someone can come up with a better one for it. This device carries an explosive payload around Dwemer mines; the payload is used to 'excavate' huge holes in the earth, so miners can move deeper and retrieve minerals that would have been unattainable otherwise. Here is a picture of the device:

[img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3298/explodofinal3nc.jpg[/img]

Mr. Sorry of Balmora · Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:59 pm

how about Dwemer BUS (Brings Us Stuff)

on another note id like to know how they moved it
(is there a person inside? is that a window or a camera? If camera, how did they get the tech knowledge to make it know were it is going?

Xui'al · Post by **Xui'al** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:05 pm

Dwemer Air Centurion?
Dwemer Air Miner?

nakai · Post by **nakai** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:31 pm

Dwemer piece bringer?

PoHa! · Post by **PoHa!** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:40 pm

-Dwemer Bug Floater
-Dwemer Excavation Centurion
-Dwemer Flight Sphere

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:00 pm

Dwemer Bee Centurion
Dwemer Drone
Dwemer Shuttle
Dwemer Rotor Centurion

Post by **Swiftoak** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:17 pm

Shuttle Centaurion
Miner Shuttle
Dwemer Helodrone
Dwemer Helominer
Dwemer Heloshuttle
Helocentaurion

EDIT: Dwemer Skybot
Dwemer Skyshuttle (worst one yet)
Dwemer Helispider
Dwemer Heliminer

Heli and helo are diffrent right?

I will edit this post whenever i come with new ideas.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:19 pm

Helio means the sun

I think you are going for Helo

Post by **Swiftoak** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:25 pm

Thank you Jale, I appreciate that. Edited.

nakai · Post by **nakai** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:51 pm

big booma!?
flying explosive?
dwemer mining toy?
just a countdowning timer?

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:01 pm

Dwemer mining copter

Vrenir · Post by **Vrenir** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:05 pm

I'm fond of the Dwemer Drone or Dwemer Mining Drone. It's short, simple, and to the point (like the other Dwemer construct names).

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:20 pm

I like dwemmer miner. It tells what it does in the name like all the other robots. EX. the dwemmer archer fires darts

nakai · Post by **nakai** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:27 pm

dwemer piece bringer or a countdown 8)

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:28 pm

Have you seen Dwemeri Archer ingame ? Me - no.

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:46 pm

Dwemer Sapeur

Zalzidrax · Post by **Zalzidrax** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:49 pm

I have seen centurion archers though.

What it should be named depends on what it is used for. If it is mainly for blowing up intruders, bomb centurion would work. Or whatever the case it could be called the Dwemer Detonator.

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:56 pm

It is for blowing rocks only. It will never attack you.

Mr. Sorry of Balmora · Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:01 pm

DMV (Dwermer Mining Vehical)

Oh, Sorry USA Drivers

ShinAli · Post by **ShinAli** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:24 pm

Since this dwemer construct shouldn't be attacking, putting Centurion in the name shouldn't be proper, since all of the constucts built for battle had Centurion in their names, rather than the airship called the "Dirigible". Acronyms seem a little edgy too :\

Caviteer (not a real word I think)
Disinterer
Disintermer

You can try to mix and match with "floating" or "earth"...

Floating Discharger
Earth Rupturer
Earth Caviteer

And so on. I like Earth Caviteer myself.

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:32 pm

Dwemer Scarab

That was probably the first name for it.

Haj · Post by **Haj** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:50 pm

Withdrawn.

ShinAli · Post by **ShinAli** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:12 pm

Arthmodeus wrote:Dwemer Scarab

That was probably the first name for it.

There was already a Dwemer artifact called the Puzzle Scarab (I think), which was featured in Redguard.

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:58 am

ShinAli wrote:Since this dwemer construct shouldn't be attacking, putting Centurion in the name shouldn't be proper, since all of the constucts built for battle had Centurion in their names, rather than the airship called the "Dirigible". Acronyms seem a little edgy too :\

Agreed. I too thought the centurion thing was battle-oriented. As for acronyms, they won't be accepted unless they are both uber-cool and heavily disguised with bracers of normal-wordlookingness +1 :D

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:04 am

Dwemer Destructicon
(sounds a bit transformersish, but why not!)

Haj · Post by **Haj** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:32 am

Withdrawn.

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:44 am

None of Dwemeri creations had the word "Dwemer" in their name. Instead they had "centurion" or "sphere" which denoted either their shape or, I think, the fact than they are animunculi. So centurion is something like animunculi. You won't call it Flying Animunculi, right ?
Giving it no name is just blantly stupid. Did you know that Kaagstag was Kaargstag ? Nope, but he had a name.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:57 am

Shuttle Construct
Hover Shuttle

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:08 am

Beetle Centurion?

ThorFluff · Post by **ThorFluff** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:23 am

Centurion is a rank in the ancient roman military. Anything named centurion is DEFINATLY of agressive/defensive nature.

Theo is on to somethig : Sapeur, but perhaps with the Anglificated spelling : Sapper (as there are no obviusly latinbased words in the other constructs names)
i would prefer
"Dwemer Sapper"

(Btw, fyi: a sapeur or "sapper" is someone who mines through the use of explosives)

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:02 am

ThorFluff wrote:Centurion is a rank in the ancient roman military.

I am aware of that. But something true in RL can be false in TES. For example absense of aforementioned rank of centurion in Imperial legion

Anyway something with the word "Dwemer" won't fit the general scheme of animunculi naming.
My suggestion was Bumblebee Centurion because it is bigger than just bee (bumblebee that is) and doesn't bite as wasp or hornet. Plus Bee Centurion sounds even more stupid than Bumblebee Centurion

Scarab really won't do because they crawl, not fly.
I would suggest to try finding something close to bumblebee but less stupid. Maybe take a latin name of the specimen and change it a bit to sound less latin ?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:12 pm

"Any of several winged, hairy-bodied, usually stinging insects of the superfamily Apoidea in the order Hymenoptera, including both solitary and social species and characterized by sucking and chewing mouthparts for gathering nectar and polle"

Apoid? Hemonterra?

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:28 pm

Apoid Centurion ? I like it.

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:30 pm

I think Jale's rotor centurion (or maybe animunculi since its passive?) has been the best so far.

Dres · Post by **Dres** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:35 pm

dwemer air cruiser
dwemer bomber
dwemer calamitus

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:56 pm

I like rotor centurion too. Or rotary centurion?

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:47 pm

Mining Centurion or Miner Centurion.

Devon8999 · Post by **Devon8999** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:23 pm

Tunnel centurion, Rupture centurion, burrow centurion and Fracture Centurion are my Ideas.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:26 pm

Rotor Shuttle
Rotor Construct
Rotor Drone
Rotor Probe
Rotor Blaster
Rotor Amunculi
Rotor Bomb

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:29 pm

Mmm Dwemer Rotor Shuttle... That has a nice ring to it.