Star Control 3: Orz Translations

[Preston Cody]

Hey all you SC3 fans, I keep reading about how people have a tough time
understanding the Orz, so I thought I'd post a list of their *words* and
possible English equivalents:

Campers: Races, Truescpae beings, primarily you
Dance: Space battle
Heavy Space: True Space
Played: Fought
Sauce: Life? (maybe blood?)
Enjoy the Sauce: Enjoy life
Party: Battle
Fingers: The orz are non-truespace beings, and the fish like creatures
we see them as are their "fingers" into our space
Spit: Talk
Smell: How they see in their dimension
Level: Dimension
New Town: Colonies
Frumple: Explode?
Slippery Places: Dimensional Portals
Nasty Tricks: Psychic manipulation
Pieces: A Unit of Time
Big Sky: The Eternal Ones?
Dissolve: What the Precursors did when they "left"

If you have any comments (cause this may all be wrong) or any other
questions (I didn't get them all) just e-mail me.

-Preston

[Chris]

You know I am beginning to thing that the ORZ are the ETERNAL ones.
They are always talking about "The Change" and how we will enjoy it.
And have you tried asking them about the eternal ones. I think that
the "party" that they refer to is when the come and EAT US!!!!!.
Anyways in SC2 the Arilou tell you about races that are trying to
'smell' out sentients like us to eat or somthing.

[Thierry Nguyen]

nic...@direct.ca (Chris) wrote:

>Preston Cody <pmc...@princeton.edu> wrote:

>>-Preston

Close, but not quite, :)

They ARE involved with the Eternal Ones, but they aren't the actual
ones. Their word for Eternal Ones is "Friend."

Also, regular sentients were "slippery cows" while Precursors, being
more sentient, were "extra slippery cows."

That's all I can think of off the top of my head...

Thierry "Scooter" Nguyen
Former Editorial Intern
Currently Youthful Mercenary Muse
CGW

[Ong Boon Hean]

In article <54km2a$1...@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>, Thie...@pacbell.net (Thierry Nguyen) wrote:
>>>If you have any comments (cause this may all be wrong) or any other
>>>questions (I didn't get them all) just e-mail me.

I think Frumple means angry/mad/etc. After all, they are *Frumple* at Arilou,
and *Frumple* at not getting the Ebon Hinge.

>>>-Preston

>Close, but not quite, :)
>
>They ARE involved with the Eternal Ones, but they aren't the actual
>ones. Their word for Eternal Ones is "Friend."

Maybe, maybe not. Why did they want the Ebon Hinge in the first place if they
want to help the Eternal1s? After all, it could've been used to boost the
power of the Sentience Collecter. Maybe the Orz are trying to use the
Eternal1s to blow the universe into oblivion =)

>Also, regular sentients were "slippery cows" while Precursors, being
>more sentient, were "extra slippery cows."

Actually that was "silly cows" and "extra silly cows"

>That's all I can think of off the top of my head...

Hehehe...I didn't think about the "silly/extra silly cows" thing much until I
got to finally meet a Persecusor. Hehehehe....Didn't know the Orz were so
funny =)

On a side note, did anyone notice that every race in SC3 was hilarious one way
or the other? Well, except the Heralds... I mean, even the Ur-Quan was funny
when it talked about ripping the Eternal Ones and the Dynarri =)

[Bryan P Chu]

Ong Boon Hean (he...@pop.jaring.my) wrote:
:
: On a side note, did anyone notice that every race in SC3 was hilarious one way

: or the other? Well, except the Heralds... I mean, even the Ur-Quan was funny
: when it talked about ripping the Eternal Ones and the Dynarri =)

Did you notice that The Ur-Quan sounded a whole lot like Breetai from
Robotech. Their history even sounds vaugly Zentradi.

LAter

Bryan Chu

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: >Thierry "Scooter" Nguyen

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[EGL]

In article <54t09b$c...@jaring.my> Ong Boon Hean, he...@pop.jaring.my
writes:

>I think Frumple means angry/mad/etc. After all, they are *Frumple* at Arilou,
>and *Frumple* at not getting the Ebon Hinge.

No no no... *frumple* is round, yet lumpy. Those of you who played SC2
know what I mean, neh?

-Eric