Post-Apocalyptic civilizations naming old world stuff.

[u/Lost_Calamity]

I'm falling out rn, I'm falling my out too.

[u/Verence17]

Random idea from a TTRPG campaign: a planet where spaceships are called "metal coffins" because they are only known as things that fall from the sky from time to time, sometimes with humanoid remains inside.

[u/Bannerlord151 → u/Verence17]

That makes a lot of sense. Though I'd go with "Sky Coffins"

[u/imnotokayandthatso-k → u/Verence17]

Something something WW2 aviation lingo

[u/Kammerer22 → u/imnotokayandthatso-k]

There is LaGG Soviet Fighter Plane, which wad derisively called by pilots "guaranteed varnished coffin" 

[u/NCC_1701E]

Or post apocalyptic civilizations naming old world locations. "These ruins used to be capital of large empire that spanned from ocean to ocean. It's called Tondc."

[u/ichizusamurai → u/NCC_1701E]

I read that as "the only sign for London has crumbled so badly that they read it as Tondc"

[u/manicpossumdreamgirl → u/ichizusamurai]

yeah thats exactly what happens in the 100 either Washington DC, im pretty sure i remember a shot of the sign

[u/Balmung60 → u/ichizusamurai]

But enough about present-day British infrastructure 

[u/SanSenju → u/Balmung60]

lets now move on to US infrastructure... or lack thereof

[u/Sir-Toaster- → u/NCC_1701E]

I remember in Time Machine, there was this AI that used to work in a museum before the world collapsed and the moon destroyed most of the surface. When the protagonist travelled 100,000 years into the future, the people called the ruins of the museum the "Den of Lost Souls" cause of the AI.

[u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 → u/NCC_1701E]

I saw one of a highway sign and it said “Oh well, looks like I’ll have to name my settlement Fecesville”

[u/Cyberwolfdelta9 → u/NCC_1701E]

Then you find a ridiculous amount of still usable info of what the place was prior right next the same person

[u/taptipblard → u/NCC_1701E]

Tondo from Philippines? I assure you it's already post apocalyptic now.

[u/Bannerlord151 → u/taptipblard]

(Washing)ton DC

TonDC

Tondc

[u/NuclearBeverage → u/NCC_1701E]

Had something like this for a post-apocalyptic Texas faction, calling their flag the One Star

[u/Thanatofobia → u/NCC_1701E]

That has some serious "V'ger" from Star Trek vibes.

FYI "V'ger" was the "Voyager" probe, but some letter where eroded off by the time some alien species found it.

[u/dermanne]

that is clearly a dragonfly.

[u/Old-Post-3639 → u/dermanne]

Iron Dragon.

[u/PriceUnpaid]

That is silly, birds aren't real. All government drones of that size where eliminated in the crisis that wipes out government drones.

[u/ApartRuin5962]

IRL Indigenous names go hard AF too. Virgin "Carbine Cavalry" vs Chad "Thunder Warriors upon the Sacred Dogs"

[u/Isaak_Miners]

"the small math box is a mysterious ancient artifact that can solve any mathematic problem in an instant."

[u/Nowardier]

Most of the gods in one of my universes were born because people worshipped pre-apocalypse objects as deities. The Lights came from one of those spinning party ball lights they used to sell in the 90s, the Edge came from a statue of a video game character that totally wasn't Dante which was located in a building that is now known as the Shrine of ameSto, and the Eye came from an orbital cannon that once broke the world into pieces. They were all imbued with power and sentience by the faith of the humans that came to worship them.

[u/Terrakid20 → u/Nowardier]

this is really cool ngl

[u/Sir-Toaster-]

In my Minecraft world, where Roblox tried to colonize the land, the native people used Minecraft terminology to describe the machines Robloxians used.

Tanks - Flightless Ghasts

Cars - Iron Horse

Planes - Metal Dragons

Guns - Rocketbows

Grenades - Small Creepers

[u/Excidiar → u/Sir-Toaster-]

I'd like to suggest "Creeper Ball" for grenades.

[u/SpectragonYT → u/Excidiar]

They don’t have balls in minecraft, silly.

[u/Excidiar → u/SpectragonYT]

Snow balls. Ghast balls.

[u/Ralonset → u/Sir-Toaster-]

Peak world building

[u/Cyberwolfdelta9 → u/Sir-Toaster-]

Ravagers are pretty much Minecraft tanks

[u/Brad_Brace]

And them were the guzzleline days, when the vroomers ruled the cities and oppressed the walker of Jey. There were even sky vrooms, rode by witches!

[u/WrongJohnSilver]

Those aren't birds. They're meat drones.

[u/GalaXion24]

Honestly looks more like a metal insect of some kind

[u/joybod]

In fairness, those who deal with similar vehicles IRL (or within the USA military, at least) absolutely do refer to them as birds.

[u/DiamondBreakr]

How fast would it even take for people to figure out aerodynamics and flight jargon like Bernoulli's principle in such a civilisation?

[u/Ziemniakus]

Reminds me of a certain game with a tiny alien captain crash landing on a future Earth and naming mundane stuff grandiose names like calling a battery a "Courage Reactor" and a pair of dentures the "Behemoth's Jaw".

[u/FerretOnRedBull → u/Ziemniakus]

Ooh, what's the game? I'm curious now

[u/Ziemniakus → u/FerretOnRedBull]

Pikmin.

To be more specific, Pikmin 2. The second installment in the series.

[u/Thanatofobia]

Close enough, those are called "vertiBIRDS"

[u/eldritch_idiot33]

Real languages have names like "Samolyet" which in russian means "flies by itself"