Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-24891101-20141031225038

Anonymous Reader: The general organization here I set forth in the previous thread, so refer there for certain terminology (basically the things in caps), but basically what you need to know is we take the ship metaphor and run with it. Each ship is a type of vessel in the navy, assigned to a command, and our reports of what happens to them, how they develop and whatnot, are couched in literal ship-building and naval terminology. See some of Angren's fleet updates to get an idea how that works. The terminology is currently inexact, and would vary from class to class, but it's highly based in metaphor. For instance, on one of Angren's updates we spoke of what travails Arkos suffered mid-volume. Compare our language to what actually happened. That'll get you started.

Ship class is determined by overall how likely the ship is. This measure includes canonical support, including teases and interpretable things, fandom popularity, endgame likelihood, informed by previous fictional works, and general opinion of it here. So Arkos is the flagship, as it has the most support, and is quite popular. Eclipse is likewise a carrier. So is Bumblebee, but because it is unlikely to ever happen in the show, as far as we currently know, it has its own problems, so it is ill-designed and doctrinally-unsound. Its status as a carrier is down entirely to its zealous support in certain quarters. Contrariwise, if you look upthread, someone supports Amalgam, and makes absurd claims about its classification. I rebut those, and cut it down, on the basis of the characters having never interacted and no-one supporting it. It is therefore a corvette.

I mentioned doctrine above, which I define, since I'm sorta responsible for the most esoteric terminology, as what is currently supported by canon. It takes into account character interactions, orientations, compatibility, and evidence for; this means that Arkos is doctrinally-sound, as there is canonical support. On the other hand, White Rose, a dreadnought which was never built, was never built because there is precious little evidence that those characters are anything more than partners; the day of the battleship is over, therefore there's no reason for them to exist in a modern navy and it is unbuilt because people mostly supported it during the trailers, and it is a relic of that time that is unsupported now.

Ship names are based on combining motif elements of both characters, with the exception of the Arse, somtimes now rendered Rune, and Arkos. These are from the early stages of shipping, but after the trailers, and these are more classic fandom names, combining parts of the characters' own. Hence ARc/roSE (or RUby/jauNE) and ARc/niKOS.

Hope this helps.

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Diego: That reminds me: Do we actually have a good name for Weiss/Jaune? I've seen Frozen Arc, but that seems sorta temporary, for lack of a better one. It occured to me that Archangel would also fit.