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Let's learn some Aludran (enhanced accidental deletion ver)!
10 years ago
So you've probably noticed that Aludran isn't English: the reason behind this is that I decided that "we" speak Etrusean, and so that appears as English (Aludran warship names are traditionally written in Etrusean, which is why Grimalkin's name appears normally). Aludran and Chiran aren't whole languages, but I'm trying to be consistent with them.
For example, the second half of Jiang's name here is the same A-shaped glyph as the second half of the name of the battleship Liang here, Chiran is a syllabary. Also the glyph on her plate carrier and tail is the number 3 as seen here where the number on the left side of the nose is directly translated into Etrusean on the right (it isn't the same number; Etrusean is decimal while Chiran is base-nine except the second digit which is base-ten because they learn to count nine stripes on their tail with their fingers and then flip back to nines again for all other numbers).
So, let's go through what some of the other nonsense I've been writing means!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17881750/
"EKOH" - "Crayons"
"NOH" - Aludran imitative of a cat-person meowing (a regular cat meowing is "new")
"SOHII RO" - "Air Force." Sohii Ro literally means "group of things air."
The runway markings are Mirrai numbers.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17192968/
"SORII ZUL" - "Army." The actual Aludran word for army means an army rather than the army, and so this is "group of people land." Zul is the ground and by extension also the Aludran word for the planet.
The Navy, incidentally, is "Sorii Lo." This is Lo with a horizontal line through the o (short o sound) rather than a diagonal line (long o sound).
The different name for the Air Force is because it started out as part of the Army and was essentially called the Army Aircraft Force. In a previous journal it was labelled as Army Flight Corps which is the original name of the Etrusean Air Force.
"ALUN MIZAN LO SEII SORII ZUL" - This is a propaganda poster, and essentially says "Aludrans stand behind their army" ("mizan" is "take a stand," "lo" with a long O is "with," "seii" is "their"). "Alun" is the Aludran word for themselves as a people ("Aludrans" is nonsense in their own language). Confusingly in Etrusean "Alun" is the word for cat-people as a species regardless of their nation of origin (the equivalent in Aludran is "Alunda"); Aludran spies have to be very carefully taught to say they're Aludran in order to say what species they are in Etrusea.
"KON ZO" - Literally something like "series do," a phrase used for checklists and the like.
"HARH KOZHII SU ZULIMAR" - Literally (No) (step)(group of things) (to) (world)(after), which may or may not be some kind of reference to something. As "Kon" is a series, "Koz" is steps as in stairs. "Harh" is a demanding "no" (something like "do not") while a normal "no" is "ha," it's a pronounced cat hiss and you can actually just hiss to emphasise it even more.
"KO HAMAR KOLUZANA" - The Final Countdown. Maxine is a film fan and this is a poster for a fairly recent Aludran movie made with the cooperation of the Navy and featuring the supercarrier ANV Grimalkin being sent back to just before the Battle of Laurent Abyss. She encounters the Dreadnought ANV Empress Minerva, actually played by Aludra's last surviving Dreadnought Lady Irene, and Admiral Kalin di Alud (playing herself) must decide whether to change history.
Ultimately she persuades Captain Natalie sen Verna of the Empress Minerva that history must play out as it did, explaining that her duty is to the Aludra of the present and not the Aludra of the past. She compares the modern map of Aludra to the one Captain Verna has, and Verna declares she doesn't believe it.
"No, you don't. Nobody does. But thanks to you, your daughters will."
During her time on the Grimalkin Captain Verna sees a black-and-white movie of what she realises is her own ship turning to starboard to avoid gunfire from a Chiran battleship before being struck by a Strakken anti-ship missile and exploding, and the movie ends after the Grimalkin has returned to the present with her realising she is in that moment, closing her eyes and ordering the helm to turn hard to starboard.
The film is known for being respectful towards the Chirans rather than demonising them, the intent being that Aludran-national Chiran species could watch it with their families without feeling uncomfortable. This was in line with government policy; at the time, before relations collapsed, the first official cultural exchanges between the two countries were taking place, and government policy was to portray Aludra as a peacemaker. Chirans tend to regard it well, as it matches the Chiran philosophy to live the life that is and not the one that might have been.
At the time, the Grimalkin's S-10 Griffon drones and their armoured box launchers were still regarded as top secret and could not be shown. Due to this restriction, screens were set up inside the central hangar deck to conceal the deck lifts and actuating mechanisms of the flank launchers, an upper air wing accommodation deck was fabricated in a film studio to stand in for the drone handling deck, and two of Grimalkin's stern modular cooling plants were removed so a pair of retractable jump ramps could be fitted to increase her conventional launch capacity. Most of the scenes of conventional launches were carried out with the assistance of the crew and air wing of the STOVL carrier ANV Victory, which was in port for repairs during filming. Handling equipment used in place of the drone storage racks in the main hangar bay was fabricated by Emera Industries from scrapped crane parts, and stowed aircraft were actually balsa wood decoys designed for use on airfields.
The movie would later be remade after the Chirans and Aludrans became allies, and featured the second Grimalkin and the Chiran flagship, the battleship CDS Jian. The remake instead has the Jian accidentally shoot down the spotting plane that first sighted the Aludran fleet and focuses on the friction created by the Jian having to signal the past Chiran fleet to attack, with just one small change to the order being all it would take to reveal that the Etrusean coastal defence guns did not have radar guidance as the Chirans believed at the time and lead to Chira controlling most of the world.
Hamar is from the same root as imar in Zulimar; "samar" is the future and cutting it off with "ha" creates a word which is effectively "no future." Kol is a step in time (same root as kon / koz) and uzana is "downwards."
The other poster I considered putting there was for the movie Octopus but I didn't think a one-word title would really work. Octopus is an Oceans's 11-like story centring on an inescapable Chiran prison complex which Aludra had only learned about when the Chirans had their first PoW exchanges. Octopus was a massive facility on the floor of the Kythen Ocean that had been repurposed from a submarine base to a prison, the eight cell blocks radiating from a rotating central command segment giving the facility its name. The escape method shown in the movie would not work (being based on misinformation that supply submarines docked at the top of the facility rather than the bottom) but it is still well-liked as an escape caper and an example of misdirecting the audience.
The movie features a real conversation recalled by a former prisoner between her and a Chiran medic, regarding why she would want to help Aludrans. She went back to Chira when relations deteriorated and her sister stayed and later died of a previously unknown heart condition. She told the Aludran the reason she worked there was that if she spent her time treating the enemy, she could believe her sister wasn't murdered by the country she loved.
And I couldn't resist having Sophie purr with an Aludran barred U.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19317548/
"NIR ALUD OMII" - "By the honour of (the house of) Alud." This was the proof mark originally stamped on gold sovereign coins made by the treasury of the Alud during the Dark Ages. During the Reformation War it was taken on as a slogan by the Aludran military and was commonly carved into the blades of knives.
"LORII" - While this is a surname, it also means something; "water people." This was originally the name of a clan located near the Vamar River that runs through the modern city of Alurna, but since this clan was stripped of most of its power during the wars that ended the Dark Ages it became a trade name for those associated with the rivers or the sea, be it fishing, shipbuilding or military sailors. In Lorii's time, though, it's just a common surname.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18990194/
"ZIA, E NA ASTRID" - "Hi, my name (is) Astrid." "Zia" is the short form of "Ziadra," the more formal Aludran greeting.
"HARH KOZ" - "No step."
"ORUL" - "Joyful," though this is actually the name and coat of arms of the noble family that owns the cosmetic company Astrid works for.
"FHON" - "Fire."
For example, the second half of Jiang's name here is the same A-shaped glyph as the second half of the name of the battleship Liang here, Chiran is a syllabary. Also the glyph on her plate carrier and tail is the number 3 as seen here where the number on the left side of the nose is directly translated into Etrusean on the right (it isn't the same number; Etrusean is decimal while Chiran is base-nine except the second digit which is base-ten because they learn to count nine stripes on their tail with their fingers and then flip back to nines again for all other numbers).
So, let's go through what some of the other nonsense I've been writing means!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17881750/
"EKOH" - "Crayons"
"NOH" - Aludran imitative of a cat-person meowing (a regular cat meowing is "new")
"SOHII RO" - "Air Force." Sohii Ro literally means "group of things air."
The runway markings are Mirrai numbers.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17192968/
"SORII ZUL" - "Army." The actual Aludran word for army means an army rather than the army, and so this is "group of people land." Zul is the ground and by extension also the Aludran word for the planet.
The Navy, incidentally, is "Sorii Lo." This is Lo with a horizontal line through the o (short o sound) rather than a diagonal line (long o sound).
The different name for the Air Force is because it started out as part of the Army and was essentially called the Army Aircraft Force. In a previous journal it was labelled as Army Flight Corps which is the original name of the Etrusean Air Force.
"ALUN MIZAN LO SEII SORII ZUL" - This is a propaganda poster, and essentially says "Aludrans stand behind their army" ("mizan" is "take a stand," "lo" with a long O is "with," "seii" is "their"). "Alun" is the Aludran word for themselves as a people ("Aludrans" is nonsense in their own language). Confusingly in Etrusean "Alun" is the word for cat-people as a species regardless of their nation of origin (the equivalent in Aludran is "Alunda"); Aludran spies have to be very carefully taught to say they're Aludran in order to say what species they are in Etrusea.
"KON ZO" - Literally something like "series do," a phrase used for checklists and the like.
"HARH KOZHII SU ZULIMAR" - Literally (No) (step)(group of things) (to) (world)(after), which may or may not be some kind of reference to something. As "Kon" is a series, "Koz" is steps as in stairs. "Harh" is a demanding "no" (something like "do not") while a normal "no" is "ha," it's a pronounced cat hiss and you can actually just hiss to emphasise it even more.
"KO HAMAR KOLUZANA" - The Final Countdown. Maxine is a film fan and this is a poster for a fairly recent Aludran movie made with the cooperation of the Navy and featuring the supercarrier ANV Grimalkin being sent back to just before the Battle of Laurent Abyss. She encounters the Dreadnought ANV Empress Minerva, actually played by Aludra's last surviving Dreadnought Lady Irene, and Admiral Kalin di Alud (playing herself) must decide whether to change history.
Ultimately she persuades Captain Natalie sen Verna of the Empress Minerva that history must play out as it did, explaining that her duty is to the Aludra of the present and not the Aludra of the past. She compares the modern map of Aludra to the one Captain Verna has, and Verna declares she doesn't believe it.
"No, you don't. Nobody does. But thanks to you, your daughters will."
During her time on the Grimalkin Captain Verna sees a black-and-white movie of what she realises is her own ship turning to starboard to avoid gunfire from a Chiran battleship before being struck by a Strakken anti-ship missile and exploding, and the movie ends after the Grimalkin has returned to the present with her realising she is in that moment, closing her eyes and ordering the helm to turn hard to starboard.
The film is known for being respectful towards the Chirans rather than demonising them, the intent being that Aludran-national Chiran species could watch it with their families without feeling uncomfortable. This was in line with government policy; at the time, before relations collapsed, the first official cultural exchanges between the two countries were taking place, and government policy was to portray Aludra as a peacemaker. Chirans tend to regard it well, as it matches the Chiran philosophy to live the life that is and not the one that might have been.
At the time, the Grimalkin's S-10 Griffon drones and their armoured box launchers were still regarded as top secret and could not be shown. Due to this restriction, screens were set up inside the central hangar deck to conceal the deck lifts and actuating mechanisms of the flank launchers, an upper air wing accommodation deck was fabricated in a film studio to stand in for the drone handling deck, and two of Grimalkin's stern modular cooling plants were removed so a pair of retractable jump ramps could be fitted to increase her conventional launch capacity. Most of the scenes of conventional launches were carried out with the assistance of the crew and air wing of the STOVL carrier ANV Victory, which was in port for repairs during filming. Handling equipment used in place of the drone storage racks in the main hangar bay was fabricated by Emera Industries from scrapped crane parts, and stowed aircraft were actually balsa wood decoys designed for use on airfields.
The movie would later be remade after the Chirans and Aludrans became allies, and featured the second Grimalkin and the Chiran flagship, the battleship CDS Jian. The remake instead has the Jian accidentally shoot down the spotting plane that first sighted the Aludran fleet and focuses on the friction created by the Jian having to signal the past Chiran fleet to attack, with just one small change to the order being all it would take to reveal that the Etrusean coastal defence guns did not have radar guidance as the Chirans believed at the time and lead to Chira controlling most of the world.
Hamar is from the same root as imar in Zulimar; "samar" is the future and cutting it off with "ha" creates a word which is effectively "no future." Kol is a step in time (same root as kon / koz) and uzana is "downwards."
The other poster I considered putting there was for the movie Octopus but I didn't think a one-word title would really work. Octopus is an Oceans's 11-like story centring on an inescapable Chiran prison complex which Aludra had only learned about when the Chirans had their first PoW exchanges. Octopus was a massive facility on the floor of the Kythen Ocean that had been repurposed from a submarine base to a prison, the eight cell blocks radiating from a rotating central command segment giving the facility its name. The escape method shown in the movie would not work (being based on misinformation that supply submarines docked at the top of the facility rather than the bottom) but it is still well-liked as an escape caper and an example of misdirecting the audience.
The movie features a real conversation recalled by a former prisoner between her and a Chiran medic, regarding why she would want to help Aludrans. She went back to Chira when relations deteriorated and her sister stayed and later died of a previously unknown heart condition. She told the Aludran the reason she worked there was that if she spent her time treating the enemy, she could believe her sister wasn't murdered by the country she loved.
And I couldn't resist having Sophie purr with an Aludran barred U.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19317548/
"NIR ALUD OMII" - "By the honour of (the house of) Alud." This was the proof mark originally stamped on gold sovereign coins made by the treasury of the Alud during the Dark Ages. During the Reformation War it was taken on as a slogan by the Aludran military and was commonly carved into the blades of knives.
"LORII" - While this is a surname, it also means something; "water people." This was originally the name of a clan located near the Vamar River that runs through the modern city of Alurna, but since this clan was stripped of most of its power during the wars that ended the Dark Ages it became a trade name for those associated with the rivers or the sea, be it fishing, shipbuilding or military sailors. In Lorii's time, though, it's just a common surname.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18990194/
"ZIA, E NA ASTRID" - "Hi, my name (is) Astrid." "Zia" is the short form of "Ziadra," the more formal Aludran greeting.
"HARH KOZ" - "No step."
"ORUL" - "Joyful," though this is actually the name and coat of arms of the noble family that owns the cosmetic company Astrid works for.
"FHON" - "Fire."
DireWolf505
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Man, that's cool. The Final Countdown is one of my favorite movies.
