They are stuck on just one point - what do they call their creation?
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Wednesday 4 April 2012
Help The British War Effort!
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It's the height of World War II. To its formidable arsenal of conventional weapons Nazi Germany has added new terrors - giant stompy robots and massive creatures from other dimensions. The British War Office has established a working group consisting of Barnes Wallis, Alan Turing and a young Bernard Quatermass to devise a counter-measure to the new Nazi menace; a huge, artificially intelligent, war-machine capable of fighting such foes on their own terms.
They are stuck on just one point - what do they call their creation?
They are stuck on just one point - what do they call their creation?
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"Thunder Child" (in homage to H.G. Wells)
ReplyDelete"The Bastable Engine" (in homage to Michael Moorcock)
ReplyDeleteHMS Vanguard, since the ship wasn't finished in time.
I can think of a few ideas:
ReplyDeleteThe Iron Tommy
Gogmagog or Madoc the Great
Project White Cliffs
I like Thunder Child myself,
Archie
ReplyDeleteMarvin
Colossus
Vera or Gracie
Merlin
Arthur
His Majesty's Automaton Isambard Kingdom Brunel
I do like Thunder Child though. You know why.
Bob
ReplyDelete(Best of British)
I guess some of it boild down to whether it's the Army or the Navy who are running the show (the Air-Force don't count - too new).
ReplyDeleteThe Army would treat it as a tank, so it would have a class name and that's it (M7 Behemoth Destroyer Mk I 'Montgomery'). They wouldn't use 'Thunderchild'; too naval. The Navy would treat it as a ship, so each individual build would have its own name ('Thunderchild' Class Land Battleships - HMLS 'Thunderchild', HMLS 'Gogmagog' etc)
I like 'Thunderchild'. I had already considered 'Gogmagog' as well, but I don't like the rhythmn of the name. 'The Iron Tommy' is a nice one-off name for some kind of stompy robot.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far.
HMLS Tantalus Mk.I
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