Re: Lunar nickname

From: moonbroth <Nick_at_...>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:34:25 -0000


Ed asks:

> British soldiers were nicknamed Tommies (from Kipling's Tommy
> Atkins) and Russians were Ivan. Now what would Lunar soldiers be??

I don't have anything directly comparable. I've used "redcloaks" as a Sartarite slang term for Lunar soldiers (Provincials and Heartland Corps, by and large), but *unlike* your examples this isn't derived from a personal name. It does, of course, give you resonance with other rebellions of the colonial past (always a plus, in my book).

"Ma! Pa! The redcloaks are coming!"

Cheers, Nick

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