#tailkit

[bonefall]

Clanmew terms to describe weight and height? Like the heavy in Heavystep or the tall in Tallstar?

I'm going to give you a detailed breakdown of words for describing attributes, including pulling from the Lexicon, to try and have a good single-post guide for this.

Note: In an attempt to add some better grammatical rules for attributes going foward, for a larger quest to make Clanmew better for some "conversational" topics, some words are going to get edited in the Lexicon as well

Basic Attributes

MOST attributes in Clanmew are inherently "neutral" until modified. "Way" is simply Height, with "Wayeeb," "Wayrra," and "Waymor" meaning Short, Medium, and Tall.

Generic attributes CAN be used in names, and by default refer to the 'obvious' nature of a characteristic.

For example; Shortwhisker of SkyClan was Kas-hussk, Length-Whisker. Because his short whiskers were defining, Kas in this situation obviously means "short." If his whiskers suddenly grew in twice as long, Kas-hussk would suddenly mean "Longwhisker," as that would also be the obvious trait.

(For Talltail I'm kind of thinking of making his Clanmew name Swashmew, Tailkit, and then eventually earning a name on his return that means "Story-Traveled" in reference to how long he spent away from WindClan. "Talltale" in English, which could have been "Wanderstar" or even "Talestar")

Height; the vertical axis of an object = Way

Length; the horizontal axis of an object = Kas

Weight; the heaviness of an object = Bai

Age; amount of time a thing has existed = Kiq

Wealth; the amount of stuff that a thing has = Poh (Note: NOT money-related. Refers to how much prey you've caught in an outing, how rich a patch of territory is, how full your bowl is, etc. I cannot think of a better English translation.)

Threat Level; a Clan Culture value = Myyrn

Experience/Skill/Aptitude; how good you are at a thing = Pya

Favor; for mortals, liking things = Min (Do you want to say "I love you?" Go read this for examples.)

Gloss; the shininess of fur, has a double meaning as StarClan's favor in you = Shaw

Soft; 'Squishiness,' comfort, pliability = Afi (NOT a fur texture. Soft of texture is "wuff")

Hard = Bobur

Happy; contentedness, joy, satisfaction = Bia

Rank; political power, authority, social standing = Gorrl

Temperature; the normal, non-freezing and non-burning range of heat. For fevers, average weather, objects you touch casually = Waa

Suffixes; attached to the end of attributes to modify them

Little of a physical attribute = -eeb

Medium of a physical attribute = -rra

Large of a physical attribute = -mor

Has not collected much of the attribute; scarce, poor = -qef

Has collected a reasonable amount of the attribute; expected, normal, "hitting your numbers" = -qal

Has collected a whole lot of the attribute; rich, -ful = -qew

"-ness," the most basic suffix for turning any word into an noun to be used in questions and declarations = -wang.

There's a significant difference between eeb/rra/mor (ERM) and qef/qal/qew (QQQ), listen carefully.

The ERM set is about physical, innate attributes. Long legs, natural talent, harmless species. A cat who contains Waymor is a NATURALLY tall cat, it is their build. To say that a cat contains "pyaeeb" is like saying that they are always going to be bad at a thing, where you could comfort a clanmate with "pyaqef" to say that they don't have experience yet.

The QQQ set is about acquired traits. A cat who contains Baiqew may be one who might be carrying a lot of weight but could set the objects down. You might hear "Pohqal" for a cat who has caught as much prey as they need to on this particular outing. "Wayqew" is height that a cat has because they are standing on something.

(and wayqal implies that squilf has stepped up onto some sort of box or rock to be eye-level with the person she is talking to <3)

It's a small difference, but a meaningful one.

[cyberbenb]

Re A fairly standard VOG-17 equipped with a 3D printed tailkit.

Re A fairly standard VOG-17 equipped with a 3D printed tailkit. Source : twitter.com/Osinttech…

[warriors-but-cats-die]

windclan — year seven — newleaf

tawnystar dies, and indigostar becomes leader. congrats! you're the first noncanon character to become leader.

crowfeather is now deputy. pale-ear becomes a warrior.

deep breath. noddingpaw, banepaw, and streampaw are apprenticed to iciclesun, indigostar, and shadewing,

and. another, deeper breath.

whitetail has five more kits. droughtkit (pale brown and white tom), hoodkit (silvery blue and white she-cat), pricklekit (smoky tom with white patches), snakekit (smoky tom), and tailkit (blue and white she-cat with dark flecks and long fur)

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[electricpurrs]

thoughts for what miles tails prower from sonic would be like if he was a warrior cats character (either in a wc au or just his wc sona he made himself)

- hes a regular kitten but he was born with two tails, leading him to be ostracized by other cats (tails is using his sona as a coping mechanism) but he gets to grow and prove his worth as a true warrior

- concept: due to having remarkable weird tails, his mom names him "tailkit". further concept: when he becomes a warrior he gets named tailtail (two tails. get it) alternatively he could be named doublekit, and then named doubletail? throwing ideas here

- other equally fun idea: hes actually a fox kit who gets adopted by a queen cat. he still gets ostracized for being a fox until he eventually is like twice the size of the other apprentices. his name could be foxkit, and then foxtail?

waiting for feedback

[yoshifan4456]

Graystripe’s final story - 4/4 - notes edition

The story takes place in one day. It’s about 25 mins long. At the current time, Graystripe’s calculation of his age is about as good as mine.

As you can tell, there are some new characters.

Baystar - the Baypaw we have right now. She grows up fast. 3rd oldest cat in ThunderClan.

Alderheart - same Alderheart we’ve got right now. He acts similar to how he does in present Bramblestar day. He also looks pretty much the same. He did not expect to live as long as he has.

Ivystar - Ivypool as leader. I know, I know... making it in Ivystar times would have been cooler but I DIDN’T WANNA. She was killed by a falling tree.

Squirrelflight - not much different. She never went back to ThunderClan, and ended up becoming good friends with Slatefur. He did have a crush on her, but he didn’t have enough courage to confess that. Instead, Squirrelflight does, and they become mates just three moons before her death in battle. She was pregnant at the time, and gave birth to Slatekit and Cloverkit in StarClan (named after her ShadowClan friends). She had trouble choosing mates in StarClan, but ended up picking Slatefur after learning that Bramblestar was interested in taking an unknown WindClan she-cat in as a mate. Bramblestar’s sad. Eventually, they become friends again. But never mates.

Stormfur - is dead. Brook is too. Their kits are not.

Blossomheart - Graystripe’s great granddaughter. Blossomfall died not too long before she was born. She has a brother named Leopardspot, but he purposely got himself killed recently for an unknown reason. She looks like her grandmother. A lot.

Twotail - A white she-cat with a genetic mutation that branches the tip of her tail into two tips. Her original name was Tailkit, then Tailpaw, but her parents requested she was named Twotail when she became a warrior. She brags about her tail a lot.

Other clans:

RiverClan - Mistystar stays leader until about halfway through Ivystar’s leadership, where she drowns in a flood. At the time, the deputy was Grayneedle (Graykit from current times), who became Graystar. After him, the leader was Reedstar (NOT Reedwhisker, Mistystar’s son, but rather his son, Reedleaf). He is the current leader.

WindClan - Harestar was killed by Breezepelt, trying to help his father become leader. He staged it while ThunderClan was attacking, so it was assumed he was killed by a ThunderClan warrior. Breezepelt kept killing deputy after deputy during battles until he was chosen by Crowstar. Soon after, he also staged his death, but didn’t really know what to do then. The first thing that came to mind was attacking ThunderClan. In the battle, he killed Lionblaze. The next moon, after finding ThunderClan and RiverClan scents on his borders, attacked both clans and held Leafpool, Reedwhisker, Reedkit, Stonekit, and Sandkit prisoner. He managed to get them to admit that they had been secretly meeting and that the kits were theirs at a gathering. Once they said that, he had his warriors kill the parents of the kits in front of them. The other clans attacked WindClan at the gathering, with StarClan on their side, and managed to kill Breezestar and save the kits, distributing them fairly among the other clans: Reedkit to RiverClan, Sandkit to ThunderClan, and Stonekit to ShadowClan. Breezestar’s successor was Applestar, his daughter.

ShadowClan - Tigerstar eventually died of old age. His deputy was Scorchfur at the time, so he became Scorchstar. Frondwhisker was his deputy. But not for long. The death was so terrible, nobody talks about it, and Graystripe even said that it’s the most disturbing death since Tigerstar 1′s. Next, Lightleap. Died the next day. Then her sister, Pouncestep took over. Died. Scorchstar stopped putting up deputies after that and decided that when he died, they’d do a poll like they did in ThunderClan. Shadowsight is alive. But he lives in constant fear that the killer of his siblings would come and get him too.

SkyClan - driven out by Brambleposter. It’s unknown what happened to everyone besides Violetshine, Tree, and their kits. They moved to ShadowClan. Rootpaw became Rootspring and Needlepaw became Needlefang. Needlefang died of old age and Rootspring died via food poisoning from Shadowsight, who wanted his best friend to die a peaceful death instead of being murdered by the mystery cat.

That’s all i got.

Thanks for reading this far.

[courtneytincher]

Lockheed Martin and Rafael team to market ‘Spice’ munition for U.S. sale

Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp and Israel’s largest defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop, market, manufacture and support Smart, Precise Impact and Cost-Effective (SPICE) munition for U.S. sale.

According to a news release put out by Lockheed Martin, SPICE is a family of stand-off, autonomous, air-to-surface weapon systems that provide affordable precision in a GPS-denied environment. In use since 2003, SPICE is combat-proven and in service with the Israeli Air Force and several other nations worldwide.

The SPICE  munition is more advanced than most EO-guided bombs (GBU-15, for example), since it combines the advantages of satellite guidance (such as the ability to engage camouflaged and hidden targets; to provide a “drop-and-forget” option for several such targets simultaneously; and to operate in all weather and lighting conditions) and those of electro-optical guidance (such as the ability to provide “man-in-the-loop” guidance for extremely high precision; the ability to engage relocatable targets; lower CEP than that of satellite-guided munitions; and independence from external information sources like satellites) into one bomb – reducing the amount of munitions (and hence, payload) that an aircraft has to carry for a given strike mission, increasing its combat radius and maneuverability.

“Access to GPS is becoming increasingly limited in contested environments,” said Mr. Yuval Miller, executive vice president and general manager of Rafael’s Air & C4ISR Division. “SPICE provides a solution to this challenge. Finalizing this exclusive agreement sets the scene for our two companies to provide unmatched mid-range guided air-to-surface weapon systems to enhance mission flexibility and success.”

The teaming agreement covers the SPICE 1000 (1,000 pound/453 kilogram weight class) and SPICE 2000 (2,000 pound/907 kilogram weight class) kit variants. Over 60 percent of SPICE is already manufactured in the U.S. in eight states.

“SPICE offers the U.S. Department of Defense and many allies a capability that no other weapon currently in inventory provides,” said John Varley, vice president at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “By applying our expertise in aircraft integration, mission planning and tailkit design, along with our experience in affordable streamlined production, we will adapt SPICE to meet U.S. standards so bomber and fighter aircraft can benefit from the added mission flexibility that SPICE offers.”

Lockheed Martin Rafael Agreement

from Defence Blog

Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp and Israel’s largest defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop, market, manufacture and support Smart, Precise Impact and Cost-Effective (SPICE) munition for U.S. sale.

According to a news release put out by Lockheed Martin, SPICE is a family of stand-off, autonomous, air-to-surface weapon systems that provide affordable precision in a GPS-denied environment. In use since 2003, SPICE is combat-proven and in service with the Israeli Air Force and several other nations worldwide.

The SPICE  munition is more advanced than most EO-guided bombs (GBU-15, for example), since it combines the advantages of satellite guidance (such as the ability to engage camouflaged and hidden targets; to provide a “drop-and-forget” option for several such targets simultaneously; and to operate in all weather and lighting conditions) and those of electro-optical guidance (such as the ability to provide “man-in-the-loop” guidance for extremely high precision; the ability to engage relocatable targets; lower CEP than that of satellite-guided munitions; and independence from external information sources like satellites) into one bomb – reducing the amount of munitions (and hence, payload) that an aircraft has to carry for a given strike mission, increasing its combat radius and maneuverability.

“Access to GPS is becoming increasingly limited in contested environments,” said Mr. Yuval Miller, executive vice president and general manager of Rafael’s Air & C4ISR Division. “SPICE provides a solution to this challenge. Finalizing this exclusive agreement sets the scene for our two companies to provide unmatched mid-range guided air-to-surface weapon systems to enhance mission flexibility and success.”

The teaming agreement covers the SPICE 1000 (1,000 pound/453 kilogram weight class) and SPICE 2000 (2,000 pound/907 kilogram weight class) kit variants. Over 60 percent of SPICE is already manufactured in the U.S. in eight states.

“SPICE offers the U.S. Department of Defense and many allies a capability that no other weapon currently in inventory provides,” said John Varley, vice president at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “By applying our expertise in aircraft integration, mission planning and tailkit design, along with our experience in affordable streamlined production, we will adapt SPICE to meet U.S. standards so bomber and fighter aircraft can benefit from the added mission flexibility that SPICE offers.”

Lockheed Martin Rafael Agreement

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Lockheed Martin partners with Wahaj for laser-guided bomb production in KSA

Lockheed Martin partners with Wahaj for laser-guided bomb production in KSA

Author:  ARAB NEWS ID:  1519847227597628900 Thu, 2018-03-01 03:00 RIYADH: American defense giant Lockheed Martin signed a teaming agreement on Wednesday with Wahaj to develop Saudi Arabia’s capability to co-manufacture the tailkits for Paveway II Plus Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs). The agreement was signed at the Armed Forces Exhibition for Diversity of Requirements and Capabilities (AFED 2018)…

[warriors-but-cats-die]

thunderclan — year eleven — leafbare

arnicafur and pearlwillow become warriors.

trailpaw and watchpaw are apprenticed to brambleclaw and juniperbranch.

slugkit and bristlekit die of greencough. it's a bad season for the clans. sorrelstripe moves into the nursery to help out.

ashpetal and redcloud have a litter of kits, banekit (silver tom), tailkit (small, pale red she-cat), slugkit (red ticked tabby tom), and agoseriskit (red mink golden ticked tabby tom).

[warriors-but-cats-die]

skyclan — year ten — leafbare

another rough season.

sleetfoot, silvershadow, and scudpetal die. this is like, sickness time, i think, and that's what's going on? i choose to believe lmao.

redcloud becomes a warrior.

reedpaw, finpaw, and dewpaw are apprenticed to sagenose, blossomheart, and nettlestar. violetpaw is apprenticed to lacesnow.

twigkit dies.

mintfur has one kit, tailkit (black tom with short forelegs).

sandynose dies.

[warriors-but-cats-die]

thunderclan — year nine — greenleaf

amberpaw dies.

verbenakit and hollykit1 die.

firdapple has three kits, pinekit (tom with a twisted leg), tailkit (black and white tom), and podkit (white, black, and grey tom with faint stripes).

i believe i made a mistake last season and wrote "honeykit," but i'm writing this after writing that and before it posts, and scrolling through queue takes forever, so if no one has called me out on it yet, here it is. ↩︎

[warriors-but-cats-die]

windclan — year seven — greenleaf

swallowpaw and streampaw die. these deaths can all be attributed to drought btw.

it's the Prey shortage the drought creates.

tailkit also dies.

sedgewhisker becomes a warrior! congrats <3 only one of the litter <3

leafpaw and indigopaw are apprenticed to their grandfathers (by Cat rules), crowfeather and halotail.

[warriors-but-cats-die]

i feel soooo bad for whitetail, especially after that litter of 8. it feels like every other season its like "and whitetail's new litter,"

how many of her kits have survived to adulthood anyway?

whitetail has so many kits and it's all random. i didn't decree this she's just. yeah.

okay, going by mates, we have:

(unknown)

heathertail

rockbird

sapkit

squailkit

ashpaw

goldenkit

cresspaw

juniperkit

shadewing

indigobird

stormfur

thistlekit

sedgewhisker

swallowpaw

droughtpaw

hoodspot

pricklepaw

snakepelt

tailkit

banesnap

icekit

indigoleaf

yewcloud

poplarkit

alderkit

which means...whitetail is the mother of two leaders of windclan. not saying who the second is :3

anyway, out of 23 kits, 9 survive to adulthood, for a 39% survival rate. not bad, whitetail, not bad at all.

<3

[warriors-but-cats-die]

Reading thru this au really gets across the 'a warriors life is dangerous' thing. Practically anyone has lost a loved one by the time they become a warrior/seer, and the sheer number of dead kits is just rough. I'd consider a warrior naming ceremony an achievement in this, where in canon it feels kinda ordinary and we just gloss over it. Great work!

i'm glad it's coming across!

a warrior ceremony is definitely a huge achievement. and numbers i don't share (or record) is the number of kits who are...who by the numbers, should have been born, but weren't. when i generate a litter, i do an extra set of deaths in their first season, and those kits aren't shared. agoserisstrike (née agoseris, m. squirrelflight, f. brambleclaw), for example, had two littermates who are basically never born.

they don't exist in any meaningful sense, i think of it as basically...smaller litters due to a high stress environment.

anyway, i was looking at bayheart's kits, and they are...

rainkit, sapstripe, troutkit, sharpkit, ridgekit, nettlerun, and then five kits in a newborn litter (squailkit, hailkit, fadekit, sprucekit, and ashkit). so only a third of her kits actually become warriors.

or for whitetail: heathertail, rockbird, sapkit, squailkit, ashpaw, goldenkit, cresspaw, juniperkit, shadewing, indigostar (née indigobird), thistlekit, sedgewhisker, swallowpaw, droughtpaw, hoodspot, pricklepaw, snakepelt, tailkit, and a newborn litter (icekit, indigokit, yewkit, poplarkit, and alderkit).

yes, whitetail has...a lot of kits. this is what happens when you choose queens at random, and she has litters with 5-7 kits. and yes, she names two kits indigokit. it was the best of the three options i rolled.

but anyway, that's 7/18, or 39% survival rate. so yeah, being a warrior is a big deal! unless you're in shadowclan.

darkflower's kits are skykit, nightflower, lionflight, rowanclaw, and sleetface.

sprucesight's kits are redfang and yellowtail.

not that they don't have low survival rates: yellowtail's kits are junipersun, poplarface, drizzlekit, morningkit, indigokit, mistpaw, dewkit, and sparrowpaw. (although sparrowpaw isn't old enough to be a warrior yet.)

anyway, i'm glad i convey that. i try to make sure the deaths are varied, interesting, and so on. as well as injuries. lightningthorn has raccoon paralysis! that's a real thing.

rosemaryheart is paralyzed from just below her shoulders!

crowfeather loses a leg to a badger.

i try to keep things interesting.

(also, in case you haven't figured it out, when i go through things, i'm doing it from my present, which is, atm, Y8-LF.)

i've considered removing dead kits from the family tree...but i keep them in. it reminds me that life is rough for warriors.

[warriors-but-cats-die]

thunderclan — year twelve — allegiances

leadership

leader: ivystar (5y). she-cat with blue eyes. (apprentice — eaglepaw)

deputy: thornclaw (10y). golden tabby tom.

seer: alderheart (2y). dark ginger tom with a white tail tip and amber eyes.

warriors

greystripe (11y). dark grey tom.

brambleclaw (9y). dark brown tabby tom. (apprentice — trailpaw)

lionblaze (6y). golden tabby tom.

blossomfall (5y). tortoiseshell and white she-cat.

dewnose (3y). grey tom.

echonose (2y). black tortoiseshell tabby she-cat. (apprentice — stempaw)

sparkpelt (2y). bright ginger she-cat.

juniperbranch (2y). black tom. (apprentice — watchpaw)

dandelionfire (2y). pale ginger she-cat.

mapletail (1y). red tom.

larksong (1y). black tom.

arnicafur (1y). golden tabby tom with long fur and pale eyes.

pearlwillow (1y). massive, dark gold tom with green eyes.

queens

sorrelstripe (2y). brown she-cat.

cinderheart (7y). grey she-cat with dark eyes. (kits — spotkit, flykit, snapkit)

fernsong (2y). pale yellow tabby tom. (kit — flipkit)

ashpetal (2y). pale she-cat with long fur. (kits — banekit, tailkit, slugkit, agoseriskit)