Jul 172015
In the actual history of surface-to-air missile development in the US, we had a number of Nike missiles… Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and in the end, the Nike-Zeus (which was redeveloped into the Spartan). After that, the Nike naming convention came to an end. Cities were no longer ringed with anti-aircraft missiles.
But in the Pax Orionis world, the US remains substantially paranoid about *every* form of threat, so we’d have several new types of land-based city-defending anti-aircraft missiles. But after Nike-Zeus, what might they be called? “Zeus” would seem to be the end of the Greek Deity line. So… what? Nike-Hades? Nike-Kronos? Nike-Achilles? Nike-Typhon? Nike-Hermes, perhaps?
Suggestions/discussion appreciated.