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I guess since I am the resident theologian on this one, I'll take it...

Golgotha is a Biblical location, meaning "place of the skull." It is the place, according to the Gospels, where Jesus of Nazareth was crucfied.

However, Kellan and others just thought the name sounded cool more so than its theological meaning. The story itself, however, may allow for that...

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The word Golgotha means "Irresistably cute".

So now you know.

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....or you could go with Agatheron's explaination......I would.

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Okay, it's just that... Err anybody else see Dogma?

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Yes.

I know that the Excremental came from Golgotha. There are probably various different interpretations of where/what it is.

It's a bad place.

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It's a cool ship though.

I suggested Golgotha to IceFire back in the days when it was just me and him, and Dark designing the Golgotha itself. Ice wasn't ever-so-keen on the name - but Dark was, and 2:1 odds in our favour meant that the ship got named what it did.

Surprisingly, it's also what all three of ushad envisioned, I think.

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My idea for a big gun and Kellans Gorgon Cannon with Derelict sort of collided too

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Yes, I saw Dogma too... However, in all likelyhood people would remember the name for its Biblical signficance...

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Unless they saw Dogma

"A **** DEMON!"

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Can we get a "ball-park figure" of the length of this ship?

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Hrmm...length. I should probably take a screen shot of that sometime.

Its about 3.2km long which puts it at the same length as the GTD Hades and not quite as wide.

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You should call it the GTD Arse-Kicker.

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it looks like it can kick a few of those.

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Any conventional fleet I've put it infront of gets blown away pretty quickly. The main cannon has a fairly long recharge time so it can get pretty close to a stalemate.

A Sathanas can still smoke it on a head on engagement but were talking 20% decrease in hitpoints every time the Golgotha lands a shot.

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quote:

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Originally posted by IceFire:
Its about 3.2km long which puts it at the same length as the GTD Hades and not quite as wide.

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Yeah...thats pretty much the size nailed down right there. When I approached Dark with the original idea...I basically said...big gun...meson reactor...yada yada yada

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quote:

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Originally posted by IceFire:
I basically said...big gun...meson reactor...yada yada yada

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LOL - I see how much effort you put into the design

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When I saw the render displaying the Golgota, Charon and other ships, I almost thought that Golgota was a Hades. By the way, nice model

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Holy crap this is old.

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