# Move the Gallente Navy to the Metric System **URL:** \ **Category:** Assembly Hall\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758 "2020-12-24T20:42:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Essches\_Alabel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/essches_alabel/32/246738_2.png) [@Essches\_Alabel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Essches_Alabel)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/1 "2020-12-24T20:42:02Z")
New players often struggle to remember the different names of ships. This can be resolved by using the MegaThron naming model for the Gallente navy. We should anchor around the Thron Frigate as the basic unit of shipness. **I propose:** Decithron: Corvette Thron: Frigate Dekathron: Destroyer Hectothron: Cruiser Kilothron: Battlecruiser **Megathron: Battleship** Gigathron: Dreadnaught Terathron: Titan ---
**Author:** ![Gaming513\_Tyler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gaming513_tyler/32/360798_2.png) [@Gaming513\_Tyler](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gaming513_Tyler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/2 "2020-12-24T22:21:59Z")
What a terrible idea. Dont take away my Thorax dude, or my Incursus/Tristan ---
**Author:** ![Anataine\_Deva](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anataine_deva/32/373865_2.png) [@Anataine\_Deva](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anataine_Deva)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/3 "2020-12-24T23:59:14Z")
Would that turn my Helios into a Heliothron? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Ridley\_Rohan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ridley_rohan/32/403694_2.png) [@Ridley\_Rohan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ridley_Rohan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/4 "2020-12-25T11:15:41Z")
That’s funny! But I also like its sense of natural change which is too lacking in EVE. It can make your mind boggle how many different airplane models and variants were introduced by the belligerants in WWII, especially in the final 4 years. Yet in EVE, a place of constant war, things are very static. So I approve of this idea just for the novelty value. Its also fitting that the French were leaders in adoption of the metric system, even using metric time for a while. The Gallente are obviously modeled after the French. ---
**Author:** ![Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/archer_en_tilavine/32/461718_2.png) [@Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Archer_en_Tilavine)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/5 "2020-12-25T23:29:32Z")
Given the ambiguities involved with the industry alternating between base 10 and base 2 when using the metric system to discuss ~~binary~~ ship-related matters, perhaps it would be best if we renamed the Megathron to the _ **Mebithron** _ and work our way from there… Mebi-yes, Mebi-not 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Brisc\_Rubal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/brisc_rubal/32/374307_2.png) [@Brisc\_Rubal](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Brisc_Rubal)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/6 "2020-12-26T20:33:20Z")
This makes perfect sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/7 "2020-12-27T23:36:28Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/3/2/320facc0214a09f891a51d31541e5a7d0ecf7dad.gif) People today have no sense of _style_ ---
**Author:** ![novellus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/novellus/32/248325_2.png) [@novellus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/novellus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/8 "2021-01-01T23:22:22Z")
Bahahaha this is fantastic, if just for the meme value ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/move-the-gallente-navy-to-the-metric-system/286758/9 "2021-04-01T23:22:24Z")
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