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:It's a weird name. I could understand night/instrument flight qualification (which doesn't make sense in this context) but as a ship name it sounds strange. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 14:44, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
:It's a weird name. I could understand night/instrument flight qualification (which doesn't make sense in this context) but as a ship name it sounds strange. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 14:44, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
::It's a common American alliterative (see [[w:Night Flight|Wikipedia's disambig]]). Personally I find the ship's name less strange than ''[[Embla Brokk]]'' and the dreaded ''[[Faru Sadin]]''. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 14:50, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
::It's a common American alliterative (see [[w:Night Flight|Wikipedia's disambig]]). Personally I find the ship's name less strange than ''[[Embla Brokk]]'' and the dreaded ''[[Faru Sadin]]''. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 14:50, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
:::First thing I thought of was the Led Zeppelin song. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 12:09, 15 May 2007 (CDT)


About the "weapons" portion of the infobox... aren't we inferring too much on that one? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 19:05, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
About the "weapons" portion of the infobox... aren't we inferring too much on that one? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 19:05, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
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:My educated guess for the covered battlestar name would be ''Oedipus'', but of course we can't be sure. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 06:04, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
:My educated guess for the covered battlestar name would be ''Oedipus'', but of course we can't be sure. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 06:04, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
::SV created a Sciffy thread to aid us. One writer put reverse-video caps that clearly defined the last four letters: "smus". Given that the first letter is a straight back, and I can't think of any other germanic words or names that could use those four letters, I'm more confident that "Erasmus" is the name behind the shell. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:25, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
::SV created a Sciffy thread to aid us. One writer put reverse-video caps that clearly defined the last four letters: "smus". Given that the first letter is a straight back, and I can't think of any other germanic words or names that could use those four letters, I'm more confident that "Erasmus" is the name behind the shell. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:25, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
:::The thread can be found here: [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2275066 New battlestar name discovered?]. [[User:DrWho42|DrWho42]] 13:45, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
:::That would be another Earth-reference, like Atlantia (named for [[w:Atlantis|Atlantis]]) and Columbia ([[w:Christopher Columbus|Columbus]]). [[w:Erasmus|Erasmus]] was a Dutch theologian. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:52, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
::::Or [[w:Erasmus Darwin|Erasmus Darwin]], Charles Darwin's grandfather, who was famous in his own right. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 10:53, 15 May 2007 (CDT)
OK, after some good help with friends on Sciffy, the word could only be [[Erasmus]] in the Am. English text. I'm going to be bold and create the article but not update any other templates for now and let it stew in the crucible of consensus. Please see the reverse-video shots in the Sciffy topic before it disappears to weigh in. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 16:53, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

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