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Glory to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin:

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Also,

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Heh, I walked into this:

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during a visit to my favorite 2nd hand book shop. Basically the entire 605-page book is a massive summary of executive departments, intelligence agencies, commands, countries and their military activities and, perhaps best of all, code-names of pretty much everything the US military deigned to give a code-name in the post-9/11 world.

Did you know that Blackshark is the code-name for a US-Saudi Arabian anti-submarine warfare training in 2000? Howsabout Goodbye, a code-name for a "high-powered microwave anti-personnel "active denial" technology development program. The weapon can be configured in a ground-mobile, airborne, or fixed-site system for single person operation." No? Ever heard of Nebula, a "Zirconic subcompartment reportedly dealing with stealth reconnaissance satellites"? And in case you're wondering: Zircon is an "Internet relay chat interface used in US military command posts, allowing planners, targeters, and intelligence analysts to informally communicate."

Quite apart from the interesting bits in it, it's also a fantastic resource for finding code names. INFERNO CREEK! OLYMPIC CHARLIE! RIVET MILE! INFINITE MOONLIGHT!
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I always held STB-names as a maxim from military tecnothrillers - create a bag of cool sounding words and pick them at random until you get something that sounds sufficiently awesome. It's surreal how close this is to real life.
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This book is just about the most fantastic thing I've read this year. I mean, there's an entry that reads:

Big Bird: See: Hexagon

At this point I'm just about going "you gotta be fucking kidding me!"

So now I'm scrolling past all the other code-names like "Eaglepipe" and "Focus Dragon Five" and "Gator Byte" (after which it says "unknown exercise", which is somehow only MORE thrilling) and "Gold Sword" and "Hammer Ace" to find that "Hexagon" is a KH-9 "Big Bird" imagery satellite.

Alright, so it's not a hidden facility off the coast of Costa Rica where they build giant Moscow-stomping robots but it might as well have been. You could take all the shit up to "oh it's a satellite". Change the ending, and make it read "Paragon" instead and we're in business!
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Damn that's funny! It almost sounds like the DoD or something smoked something else and used big words to describe it, after pulling names from a hat.

Also, what does STB mean, Mobius?
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Shadow Tempest Black.
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isn't the proper punctuation...

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I stand corrected. Booted corrected my momentary slip.
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Ah hurr...it's in your siggy. Guess I'll take the time and read it, seeing I have too much time in my hands now. Let's see how I'll like SHADOW TEMPEST BLACK.

Also I don't get the female astronaut after the cosmonaut picture? First female astronaut, or first astronaut (and female?) Or is it a movie character I haven't seen before?
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The astronaut is Anna Fisher MD, the first mother in space and very much a real person. But that picture is very much like what I always imagined Alexis Starr would look like.
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Man this Project Cybersyn is something else.
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I know the guy's british and all, but I seriously want that picture to be Lieutenant Thaddeus Teague in the early eighties when he and the now-current MIDNIGHT leaders were in their formative years.
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Hmm... With respect to 'MIDNIGHT: The Formative Years', this comes to mind:

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The Timothy Dalton-alike with the bow tie is easily my favorite, like an industrial captain presenting his wares to potential buyers.
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That's first-ever US SecDef James Forrestal, the sharpest dressed politician of the 1940s. He died under suspicious circumstances in '49 and later had a carrier named after him. So if that means we get a USS Taddeus Teague somewhere in the 2030s I'm all for that :).
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hahaha I could totally get behind that. I like Teague as a rival-type character - he's not full-in on the philosophy, but he's incredibly competent and all. He'd either pull a CHAOS FARLEY and survive the war or pull some incredibly manly sacrifice in the closing hours of the conflict.
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Sexy. :)
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That is one hell of a zoomy looking plane.
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This makes me want CSW Philippines to be a military junta. A MIDNIGHT stronghold!
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I don't think that dress is quite up to black tie spec, but otherwise it's very evocative indeed :D.
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