nickname/callsign come about? My Navy nick (Liquid) Came about because i love Metal Gear Solid, and, Liquid Snake happens to be my favorite character My Army nick (Solidus) came about because the person that was editing it (i don't remember who) suggested it. well...go on!
 
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ADJ:NTO/IA/EFL/WO1 Liquid/Aegis 3-1 (Aegis Nine)/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)

TRN/AD Liquid/Krath/TBA/VEDJ/(VP)

I am the TO's Adjutant, and the FS's instructor's assistant. Any questions? please direct them to: Me

Aegis ||| Naval Academy ||| Flight School

Japheth = 1) the name of one of Noah's sons, a coincidence I didn't find out about until much later, 2) the name of a 4th Generation vampire of the Cappadocian clan from the role playing game Vampire: the Dark Ages Augustus =  a cognomen given to Octavius Gaius Julius Caesar (Octavian), also afterwards a fairly common Roman personal name. I was in this big 'Roman names' phase at the time :P
 
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Rear Admiral Japheth Cappadocious, Krath Priest
Naval Executive Officer
Headmaster of the Dark Jedi Order Academy
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NXO/RAD Japheth Cappadocious/NHC-2/ISD-II Devastator/VEN/VE/(=SA=)(=SCPA=)(=FCO=)[BRC][MC:1][KC]
HM/KPT Japheth Cappadocious/DC-5/Krath Order/Elite Griffen Sect/VEDJ/VE

Dawk Rhonaey - Just a name I thought of. Cosmic - I've been playing on the Zone for a while, and this was one of the names I had chosen before I joined the Vast Empire. I chose it because I was thinking: Stars... Galaxies... Tarkin - My resigned Navy nick was chosen because of Klev Tarkin.
 
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Dawk "Cosmic" Rhonaey
CoT/MAJ Cosmic/HCA-3/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS][EW1][GS][SoS][MSM][PoC][IOC]
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Dawk "Cosmic" Rhonaey
SL/DJK Cosmic/Lion 1-1/mSSD Atrus/VEDJ/VE [VP][KC1][OAK]
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Riel Fury - One day in Physic's class, me and a pal were sitting there and he asked me why my real nick name was what it was.  I said it was the first part of my name, and he decided to call me by the last part of my name.  Fury was the end of it and ended up being a fake boxing pseudonym. Dragoon - I liked that job class in FFT and FF5, plus Kain from FF4, and it sounded cool at the time.
 
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Rear Admiral Riel Fury
Navy Commander In Chief
Krath Prophet(ess), Dark Lord of the Krath, Cult Member in Elite Griffen Sect
Give in to your hatred.  Give in to your anger.  Give in to the Dark Side.

JMac-J is the first letter of my first name.  Mac is short for Macloid, the Irish clan that my family descended from.  I didn't feel like writing the whole thing.  My retired army nick, Fishman, came about because my parents used to own a seafood resturant.  A deranged teacher started calling me Fishman, or, if he was mad at me, minnow boy, and the nick kinda stuck.
 
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NTO/LCM JMac/ISD Overlord/Raptor 9/(=A=)(=SA=)(MC1)

"Court is in session, a verdict is in.  No appeal on the docket today, just my own sin.  The walls cold and pale, the cage made of steel.  Screams fill the room, alone I drop and kneel. Silnce now the sound, my breath the only motion around.  Demons cluttering around, my face showing no emotion.  Shackled by my sins and expecting no return.  Here there is no pennance, my skin begins to burn."
~Creed

Bear came about because I was (formerly) a fan of Paddington Bear. But don't tell anyone. Grizzly came about because I wanted to have a tie to "Bear", but Koala didn't sound very good. So Grizzly it was
 
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     INS/CAP Aaron "Bear" Le'pue/Flight School/Training Fleet/ISD II Crusader/VEN/VE
(=A=) (=SA=) (=MA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [BRC] [BRC] [LSM] [LoC] [NDM]
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Hmm... I may be the only person around here who's character name wasn't chosen for any specific reason. I chose Jociam Geist because I hadn't used it yet.
 
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"Some day we'll all look back on this and cringe."
~Uncle Yo-sim, All Knowing Bartender

'Fraid not. It was just a name I pulled out of the ether one day.
 
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"Some day we'll all look back on this and cringe."
~Uncle Yo-sim, All Knowing Bartender

Geist, your name means "ghost" in German, so it seems to fit    Also, Jociam is the name of the greatest cavalry commander ever to live, Jociam Murat, who served as a Marshal under Napoleon  Anyways, I came up with Argon Viper a few years ago with my brother when we were making names that sound cool.  When I joined the HOS:SO, I used it.  Then again when I joined the EH, again with the DLSF, again with the IW, again here, and again with the RS  Bear: Hey, I remember that series...  back from about 3rd grade... 
 
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Argon Viper
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"In combat, second place is only the last to die."- Anonymous
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung
"The only thing that will never change is that everything will change" - Argon Viper