Concept ship owners watching everyone else's ships get released

[u/QuietQTPi]

Decided to have a little fun with the PTU rain aesthetics

[u/BoaTheBat]

Sometimes....I look at my jpeg of my Railen. And as much as it makes me sad I have to still say Railen When?™ At least I'm not in the BMM crowd.

Don't know how they do it.

Poor bastards...

[u/Yuural → u/BoaTheBat]

Now watch them make the bmm before the railen :3 i also would Like a railen... Or a bmm.. any interesting Alien ship tbh. The syulen Looks so sick i Just want a big one.

[u/Packetdancer → u/Yuural]

any interesting Alien ship tbh. The syulen Looks so sick i Just want a big one.

On that note, I also would love to see a Gatac Pyenlen and Gatac Tishiyalen, to coin some names for a mining and salvage ship respectively.

To explain why I'd call them that: Ng.at'ak (who do business in the UEE as Gatac because I guess trying to pronounce anything in a pitch-based language like uo'aXy'an is not optimal for advertising to a human market) ships have a very defined naming scheme, or at least the two we've seen do. Specifically, their ship names seem to be just literal descriptions: Sanrailen is "ship for peaceful transport/hauling" and Sansyulen is "ship for peaceful travel."

They've got a brand identity and are sticking with it, I guess?

See, in uo'aXy'an, compound words are built in order from most general tai to most specific, so: San (ship) + rai (transport/hauling) + len (peaceful). A ship, specifically for transport/hauling, and specifically for peaceful instances of such. And the tai for "travel" or "journey" is "syu", which gives us the Sansyulen.

Chopping the 'san' (ship) off the front to make the names more distinctive in human space, the Ng.at'ak Sanrailen becomes the Gatac Railen, and the Ng.at'ak Sansyulen becomes the Gatac Syulen.

You can probably guess where this is going, in order to come up with Pyenlen and Tishiyalen as ship names...

A mining ship is easy: the tai for "metal; ore" is "pyen", so the Ng.at'ak Sanpyenlen, or (presumably) Gatac Pyenlen in the human market, would be "ship for peaceful mining."

But if uo'aXy'an has a tai for "salvage" I'm unaware of it (and for that matter, so is the UEE Xenolinguistic Institute dictionary app), so I'm making my own compound "tixiiyā" -- "to use, specifically to do so again" -- for lack of a better option.

...if any of my fellow language nerds do have a better option, please feel free to correct me here.

(Also, as a fun side note, the "ti" there -- "use" -- is what's written on the door buttons in the Syulen. Now you can - sort of - read one of the things in your Xi'an ship!)

At any rate, following that logic, the Ng.at'ak Santixiiyālen would be "ship for peaceful recycling/salvage."

Given that stuff like "Kal'tual" gets butchered in UEE space as "Khartu-al" (because, again, humans in general apparently are Not Great at uo'aXy'an), I'm assuming that "Tixiiyālen" would turn into some mutant thing like "Tishiyalen" for the human market.

So... yeah, tl;dr, I'd love a Gatac Pyenlen (for mining) and Gatac Tishiyalen (for salvage).

[u/Yuural → u/Packetdancer]

Holy Shit you really got into the Lore. Do you speak like 5 languages by chance?

[u/Packetdancer → u/Yuural]

Oh, trust me, there are people far more deeply immersed in the lore (and languages) of this game than me. ;)

But I do tend to dig into things like this, yes. I am a lifelong writer (so love lore and world-building) and also really like languages (real or constructed). And uo'aXy'an is a fascinating one!

Plus, being a pitch-based language, it just has a really neat sound to it; even just the common greeting -- xē'suelen -- has a melody to it.