Kilrathi Awards/Medals

Well, as we discussed in another thread, we're pretty sure they gave the "You Screwed Us All" award to the designer of the Dralthi :rolleyes:
 
Most of the time, after they were done dealing with me, they were buried in a nice cat box. :D
 
overmortal said:
Well, as we discussed in another thread, we're pretty sure they gave the "You Screwed Us All" award to the designer of the Dralthi
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It stands to reason that the fighter mustve been good for something if they made so many.
 
LeHah said:
It stands to reason that the fighter mustve been good for something if they made so many.
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"Quantity has a quality all its own." - V.I. Lenin

As for the original question, there is, AFAIK, no mention made of pilot rewards like the medals of human militaries. Considering the martial nature of the kats, though, decorations as awards for military activities probably wouldn't be very frequent, since, unlike for humans, war is part and parcel of Kilrathi society.

[voice type="Dennis Miller"]That's just my opinion, though. I could be wrong.[/voice]
 
Well, I know they do give some awards.

From the Encylopedia at CIC
He commanded a carrier at the Battle of Earth and was given an Award of Valor for a ship-to-ship action against a Confederation Escort Carrier.

Thats from Akhjer nar Val part in the Kilrathi Empire Characters..

They wouldnt have awards like Confeds, But they would have something that would symbolize great battles and such..

Similiar to Klingons in ST
 
And since death in battle was the most honorable way to go, Death, why not make a shitty fighter that would all but ensure it?
 
Yup, the Kilrathi do award medals - Jazz even mentions recieving one in Special Ops 2. We see two of them in the WC:CCG...

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Icon of Glory


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Icon of Sivar
 
Cool. The Icon of Sivar loks like the Kilrathi Symbol that illustrates the Victory's Streak. Seems that their "coat of arms" is the same simbol of their god.
 
LeHah said:
It stands to reason that the fighter mustve been good for something if they made so many
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Death said:
"Quantity has a quality all its own." - V.I. Lenin
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Anyone remember that scene out of "A Bug's Life" where the lead grasshopper is explaining the advantage of the ants? He grabs a grain and hits another guy with it.

"Did that hurt?"
"No"
Then he unleashes the entire bottle of grains, which overruns the guy. Same principle with the Dralthi. Any one of us could take a dralthi on any difficulty setting, in any ship. But, when you have four or five swarming around you, it suddenly becomes a much different matter. The games never really put you in a situation where you're genuinely swarmed with them (that I recall, anyway) to the point of no return, but we hear of other pilots who get jumped by ten or so (even though, in the instance I'm thinking of, they were Drakhri, and it was Downtown) and simply are overwhelmed.

Then there's that unholy cloud of dralthi at the beginning of the WCM.
 
Edfilho said:
Cool. The Icon of Sivar loks like the Kilrathi Symbol that illustrates the Victory's Streak. Seems that their "coat of arms" is the same simbol of their god.
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It's the Imperial ('combined clans') symbol. The other famous one (the smaller, single claw from the Armada manual) is the nar Kiranka symbol.
 
Isn't each shard of the Kilrathi symbol suppose to represent a clan or is my memory playing tricks on me?
 
Hmm, I don't recall that - but it might make sense (I count ten bits, versus eight clans... the extras might signify other things).

On the other hand, you might be thinking of the Emperor's throne - which has symbols representing each of the eight noble clans.
 
I think the most Dralthi you ever have to take on at once is nine (9) when you encounter Deathstroke's squadron in WC-1. But even then, I think, you wind up facing a squad of 4 and 5 separately, and not all 9 at once.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong :)
 
Sounds about right. I absolutely love that mission, too! The frontal you get to pull in that Raptor is the stuff dreams are made of.

Back on the actual topic of the thread (since I have kinda run off with this one); what, again, are the eight noble clans? And, aside from those, what other clan names do we know of?

And, on a similar topic, what's the difference between the honorifics nar and dai? I don't remember ever seeing the explaination. Kinda like how Kilrathi capital ships went from being RAS to KIS.
 
Bandit LOAF said:
On the other hand, you might be thinking of the Emperor's throne - which has symbols representing each of the eight noble clans.
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Thats probably what I'm thinking of - wasn't that from Fleet Action?

(You see, this is the kind of discussion I waws hoping for in Boston but was too tight-lipped to say so. I can talk to all sorts of IRL friends about Star Wars or Star Trek but I have only one other friend that ever played WC. I was hoping for some long-winded discussions on one of my all-time favorite games.)
 
Edfilho said:
Cool. The Icon of Sivar loks like the Kilrathi Symbol that illustrates the Victory's Streak. Seems that their "coat of arms" is the same simbol of their god.
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Their war god, right?

Now a quick question: did the Kilrathi had other gods, or was the war god their only deity?
 
Back on the actual topic of the thread (since I have kinda run off with this one); what, again, are the eight noble clans? And, aside from those, what other clan names do we know of?
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The eight noble clans are Caxki, Kiranka, Ki'ra' Ragitagha, Sihkag, Qarg, Kur'u'tak and Sutaghi. As for others, there's one for each Kilrathi world...

And, on a similar topic, what's the difference between the honorifics nar and dai? I don't remember ever seeing the explaination. Kinda like how Kilrathi capital ships went from being RAS to KIS.
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'RAS' was never the designation for Kilrathi ships - it's just a word that appears in some of their names (KIS Ras Nik'hra). The first Kilrathi ship to show up in the canon is the KIS Rathtak. (Kilrathi ship names are more lengthy and specific 'concepts' than human ones... the ones that have been translated are things like 'Vengeance of Vukar Tag' and 'Glory of Sivar').

There hasn't really been a detailed study of the honorifics... 'nar' means (essentially) 'of' - but specifies royal assosciations.

Thats probably what I'm thinking of - wasn't that from Fleet Action?
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Yup - and they followed up on that in Wing Commander 3... the Emperors throne has all the clan symbols on it in the video sequences.

(You see, this is the kind of discussion I waws hoping for in Boston but was too tight-lipped to say so. I can talk to all sorts of IRL friends about Star Wars or Star Trek but I have only one other friend that ever played WC. I was hoping for some long-winded discussions on one of my all-time favorite games.)
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Plus, it's really really easy to make fun of Frosty (G)

Seriously, though, I think it takes a while to get used to people you know online... I was too nervous to do anything exciting the first bunch of times. Come down here or to Dragon*Con next year and we'll chat Wing Commander.

(Just saw Delances post - yes, the Kilrathi do have other gods.)
 
Conversations such as this one are usually the result of a newcomer asking questions such the one that started this thread. Perhaps the WC get-togethers should include a mandatory newbie. Or, maybe some sort of conversation-starter game like 20 Questions or something.

Then again, I've never been to any WC gathering, so I suppose it stands to reason that I don't know exactly what I'm talking about anyway :p

What are the other Kilrathi gods that we know of?
 
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