Re: Wartime references for Aliens

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>Would Kr'Vak be called "Kilo-Victor" and referred to as "Victor"
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>More likely just Vic's, though that tends to be an NAC ship.
Kill-Vic's?
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>Would we just refer to the Phalons as "Dickies"
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>Not bad, though I'm thinking some other approbation, though all I can
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>of is 'Jewels', as in family. All Lucks in rhyming?
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>What what?
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>Aren't the Savasku referred to as 'spikies' or 'spikes' in FB2?

Well, from the background blurb I wrote in FB2....
"Spikeys' or "Spineys" for the S'V
"Kravs" or "Kraks" for the K'V
"Shellies" for the Phalons (reference to the shell-like carapace on both
the ships and the Phalons themselves).
However these are only ideas, and I'm quite sure that the grunts of the
various nations have a WHOLE list of their own as well......

Slightly OT, I remember an article in a (very) old Traveller JTAS issue
called (IIRC) "Epithets from the Fifth Frontier War" on exactly this
subject - all I can recall clearly are the suggestions of " Zho"
(usually
"dirty, stinkin' Zho"), "Joe", Donny" or "Lank" for the Zhodani....

Jon (GZG)
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