Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140806000834/@comment-24891101-20140810073502

Not if you're Athena. And corvids are, indeed, an appropriate segue.

On the topic of Greek myth: Sometimes, not even paradise is sufficient to assuage the incorrect. On further consideration, Elysian doesn't make sense. And listening to it again, multiple times, has convinced me of the truth of your position. In the face of the evidence: the initial disconnect between Atlas and the concept of the Elysian military, the AK series name, the 200/2.0/whatever confusion which I must have missed, and my ears increasingly hearing Atlysian/Atlesian. I suppose I put my trust too much in my Latin training, and trusting Monty would heed Atlas being third declension. This still leaves us with the problem of the admittedly odd spelling change necessary, another reason I doubted, because neither Ruby's nor Ironwood's vowel remotely resembles that necessary for Atlasian, which would be the naive formulation.

I recant. There, I've eaten my crow.

Speaking of Latin, and as this thread is wandering a bit, did we ever get a canonical spelling for the plural of ursa? Because, by all rights, it should be ursae, not'' ursi. ''And it's driving me nuts.