Ships by Insectoid: Ships T-Z

	Television General An old television, complete with a "rabbit-ears" antenna.
	Tempest Ship Video Games The ship from Atari's "Tempest" arcade game.
	Tengwar Romen Literature The letter romen, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish Tengwar alphabet, is the hard r sound (as in road or Elrond). Notes: During my study of the Elvish languages, I learned how to write (but not necessarily read) the letters.
	Tengwar Ungwe Literature The letter ungwe, in Tengwar, is the g or gw sounds (as in Gandalf or Tengwar) and sometimes ngw, depending on the mode of Elvish used.
	Tetris Video Games A T-shape tetromino, as used in the puzzle game Tetris.
	Thief General A knife. Notes: For base thieves, fuel thieves…
	THINK General A representation of IBM's "smarter planet" logo. Notes: This is a play on two things: the old IBM slogan "THINK", created by their first chairman, Thomas J. Watson, in 1935; and his namesake, the Watson AI supercomputer that competed on the quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011. The Watson computer's "avatar" on the show was this symbol.
	Thrust Ship Video Games The ship from the Commodore 64 game Thrust, on which XPilot is partially based. Notes: Yes, it's supposed to look off-yellow. (C64 palette, remember?)
	Thunderbolt General A thundercloud.
	Tick Tock General An old-fashioned alarm clock.
	TIE Advanced Star Wars The TIE Advanced X-1 prototype is Darth Vader's personal fighter. Unlike other TIEs, it is equipped with a shield generator and hyperdrive, and thus is a bit slower. Notes: From the original Star Wars movie.
	TIE Advanced (dorsal) Star Wars An overhead view of the TIE Advanced. Notes: I often wonder whether XPilot ships ought to be designed as they would look from the top, the front, or the side. So I modified some of these TIEs to see how they'd look from the top.
	TIE Bomber Star Wars These are obviously TIEs used for bombing missions. Notes: From The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
	TIE Fighter Star Wars Your generic, garden-variety TIE fighter. Notes: From the original Star Wars trilogy.
	TIE Fighter (dorsal) Star Wars An overhead view of the generic TIE fighter.
	TIE Interceptor Star Wars These fast and agile TIEs can nearly outfly Rebel A-wings. Notes: From Return of the Jedi.
	TIE Interceptor (dorsal) Star Wars An overhead view of the Interceptor.
	Toilet General A flying toilet! Notes: *F L U S H*
	Tool Man General An end-wrench. Notes: This was originally called simply "Wrench", but that word was getting repetitive. Then I thought of the TV show Home Improvement, and settled on this name.
	Tornado General A tornado.
	Tower of Hanoi Games The "Tower of Hanoi" or "Towers of Hanoi" is a mathematical puzzle involving three poles and many \ isks of different sizes. The object is to move the stack, one disk at a time, from one pole to another, without placing a larger disk on top of a smaller one. Notes: The minimum number of moves to solve the puzzle can be calculated with the formula `x=2ⁿ−1`, where `n` is the number of disks.
	Trash Can General, Television A trash can. Notes: This persona was appropriately named Oscar (the Grouch).
	Treasure Egg General A treasure chest. Notes: Kind of like a Nest Egg, except it's in a chest.
	Treebeard Literature, Movies A tree. (The name refers to the character of Treebeard the Ent in The Lord of the Rings.) Notes: I know, I know…it looks nothing like an Ent. Quote: "It takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish..."
	Triforce Video Games The symbol of the Golden Power in The Legend of Zelda series of Nintendo video games.
	Triple Bar Games A triple-bar from a slot machine. Notes: The words BAR were added to the color version.
	TriStar General Based on the logo from the early '90s "Exploriens" LEGO sets. Notes: No idea why I picked this name.
	Tron Movies It is the 'N' from the logo of the original TRON (1982). Notes: I couldn't think of anything better that I haven't already made.
	Tron Tank Movies One of the tanks from the original TRON (1982). Notes: The color version still needs work. Quoth Flynn: "I should never have written all those tank programs…"
	Turkeyoid Animals, Arthropoids A turkey. Notes: I use this on Thanksgiving occasionally.
	UFO General An… unidentifiable flying thing. Notes: Made out of boredom.
	Uncle Pennybags Games A top hat, like the token in the board game Monopoly. Notes: "Uncle Pennybags", of course, is the mascot of that game.
	USB Technology The Universal Serial Bus (USB) symbol.
	US Route Road Signs The US Federal Highway route marker. Notes: There are 7 remaining active US highways in California (there were about 16 before 1964); however, I chose 12 routes, both old and new, for the animation here.
	Vac'n Shake General A vacuum. Notes: This pokes fun at an old XPilot player named Shake'n Vac.
	Vegetable General A carrot. Notes: "Regrettable vegetable" is another of our private jokes.
	Vulcan Shuttle Star Trek Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
	Vulture Animals A vulture. Notes: "VULTURES… VULTURES!!"
	Whale Animals It's a whale. Notes: I was thinking of Shamu from Sea World.
	Wheat Thins General, Mrnexrad A facsimile of a box of Wheat Thins crackers. Notes: This was another of Mrnexrad's frequently-used personas.
	White Rabbit Animals, Literature, Music A rabbit. Notes: This refers both to the character in Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and to the Jefferson Airplane song of the same name.
	Who Cares? Mrnexrad Who cares if this has a description?
	WinBrick Video Games From the European shareware block breaking game of the same name. By Stefan Kuhne of Soft & Fun; the website is here.
	Windows Technology It is the Windows logo. Notes: Don't sue me Bill…
	Woodpecker Animals It is a pileated woodpecker. Notes: You know that noise you make when you tap on a door with your fingernail…?
	X Logo Technology The logo of the X Window System.
	Xmas Light General A Christmas light.
	Xmas Present General A gift-wrapped package. Notes: Sometimes our personas using these three ships were "Xmas Past", "Xmas Present", and "Xmas Future", like the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol.
	Xmas Tree General A Christmas tree.
	X-Wing Fighter Star Wars Arguably the most advanced single-pilot starfighter in the galaxy. Notes: From the original Star Wars trilogy.
	Yabba Dabba Doo Television A representation of Fred Flintstone's car from the animated sitcom The Flintstones (1960-1966). The name, of course, is Fred's well-known exclamation "YABBA-DABBA-DOO!". Notes: While playing a game of TZX with us during a visit to our house recently, our uncle uttered that very exclamation, seemingly out of the blue; I looked over at his screen and saw that he had destroyed a cannon and gotten a couple of wides. Though I didn't make the ship immediately (lazy, remember?), that was when I thought of it.
	Y-Wing Fighter Star Wars An older, slower starfighter in the Rebel fleet, often used as a bombing craft. Notes: From the original Star Wars trilogy.
	Zapper Bug Arthropoids A bug of some sort—waterbug, perhaps? Notes: One of my oldest ships.
	Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix Star Trek Star Trek: First Contact. Notes: Pfft. That's three ships named "Phoenix" in this mess. Next thing I'll have an actual burning phoenix!

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