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Centii? Pithi? Corpii? What are they?
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Lingfei Wen
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-06-08 05:21:31 UTC
What is the relationship between those names and the pirate fraction?

A rank in it? Elite troops of them? or somethings else?
Domer Pyle
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-06-08 06:50:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Domer Pyle
they're the names of the rats in plexes. also, latin.

Corpus = Body
Core = Core
Centus = Center
Pith = Substance, also the material located in the center of plants
Gist = Spirit

or something like that. there's a wiki page out there somewhere.

Edit: here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rat

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Lingfei Wen
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-06-08 09:29:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Lingfei Wen
I know they are rats.

What I mean is why they are named like that, and what their ranking and status in their fraction is, compared with the same level ships with other prefix.
Gen Fesslenski
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-06-12 12:00:18 UTC
Lingfei Wen wrote:
I know they are rats.

What I mean is why they are named like that, and what their ranking and status in their fraction is, compared with the same level ships with other prefix.


Fix your tone and read the link, its clearly in there.
Synthetic Cultist
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#5 - 2012-06-12 18:35:33 UTC
I think they're asking:

Why are Guristas Pith ? Why are Blood Raiders Corpus ?

I don't see an answer to that in the linked article ? maybe I'm missing something.

Synthia 1, Empress of Kaztropol.

It is Written.
Domer Pyle
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-06-13 07:08:05 UTC
think about it. the angel cartel are given the name gist, which, according to a definition i found somewhere, meant spirit. this makes sense, because they're called the angel cartel. angel ~ spirit.

i used the wrong prefix for sansha. i should've just used centi, instead of centum, because centi = hundred makes more sense, seeing as how sansha's nation was made up of millions of slaves.

idk about serpentis, but i found a similar word which means courier. serps are known for being drug dealers, so that kinds of makes sense.

BRs have corpi, because corpus = body, and the BRs are all about sacrificing people

pith has an archaic meaning of strength. the guristas are widely accepted to be the closesty thing to true pirates. pirates are violent. violence is related to strength.

"Imagine if the bars to your prison were all you had ever known. Then one day, someone appears and unlocks the door. If they have the power to do this, then are they really the liberator? You never remembered who it was that closed you in." - Ior Labron
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#7 - 2012-06-23 20:44:05 UTC
All these names refer to "internal" things. I'm p. sure the names just represent an "Inner Circle" of pirates, i.e. Pith rats being tougher than belt rats.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#8 - 2012-06-24 16:56:39 UTC
I always assumed they used that naming scheme to imply the Pith fleets of the Guristas are the main core of the Guristas naval forces. They are the official ships of the line, so to speak.

Katrina Oniseki
Lingfei Wen
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-06-24 17:00:04 UTC
But interesting, their bounties are half lower than the original one Shocked
Benjamin Eastwood
#10 - 2012-06-27 15:13:29 UTC
I thought they were stripper names.

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