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[Max Sandstorm]

[Question] Durga? Tuna?

[The Luggage]

Most likely Jersey names her because she is a both feminine and deadly, and possibly he recalled the name from mythology and applied it.

[Xanedon]

I definitly agree about the Durga part. maybe it stands for something? D.U.R.G.A. ?

As for the Tuna, these are people on a colony far far away from earth where you are going to find Tuna. Not a far stretch to assume that its going to be an expensive import.

-Xanedon

[Theorizer]

Re: [Question] Durga? Tuna?

[jitterBox]

Jersey's knowledge of the name Durga

[The Luggage]

Perhaps Jersey is Hindu?

[Max Sandstorm]

Thanx for hitting me over the head with the fish. I went searching but didn't have the time since I'm at work now, so I just posted.

And Luggage I like ur sig.

[meetingpeopleiseasy]

Tuna? Trout?

[Zedix]

After having done a little bit of research on this so called "Durga":

Why think of the name Durga? Well, the last thing the AI said was that she couldn't read herself. She didn't have access to what she was. Turns out Durga is similar:

[eMouse]

According to Dictionary.com, Durga was also known as "The Inaccessible". That might be the angle he's using to name her - since she can access information on anyone, but can't access any information about herself.

Either that or she has 10 arms.

[ajenteks]

Re: [Question] Durga? Tuna?

[chaotic_mind]

[Urk]

Speculation regarding Tuna: There are several species of the fish that are already endangered. It would stand to reason that if tuna fishing continues in it's current state, the fish would be nearing extinction in the future, making it a delicacy.

[ttimothy]

I suspect Durga is called Durga because the Hindu Durga is a killer of demons. In current unix terminology, daemons are programs running in the background (such as the web server, ftp server, etc etc, stuff that runs but isn't attached to the logged in user). Durga killed Jersey's AI Jeannie/Genie. If it's Genie, Genie would be an appropriate name for a daemon.

[Nova]

To figure out why Jersey names her Durga, you just have to look at the facts. He gives her the name and when she questions it, insists that it is 'at least partly right'. That means he has decided the name is suitable based solely on what he has seen of/heard from Durga. That is, her actions or appearance (presumably she is appearing on his screen in some form or another).

So, we have the 'killer of demons' idea, which I think is doubtful as I doubt Jersey considers Jeanie a 'demon' by any stretch of the imagination. There's the 'daemon' interpretation, but daemon processes are ones that run quietly in the background, and are generally not ones that a user would interact with. Then there's the 'inaccessable' part, which makes more sense as she can't look into herself.

However, I'm not entirely convinced about this. Forgive me if I sound disparaging, but why would a kid from Jersey know about Hindu mythology? I mean, it's not a common subject. Maybe he studies it at school or something, but it seems a bit out of the ballpark for him to just pluck from thin air like that.

If that's the case, perhaps it isn't referring to the Hindu goddess. The goddess interpretation is an obvious answer, and perhaps that is part of the problem I have with it: it's too obvious a solution. I think there could be some other meaning to "Durga"; perhaps it is meaningful in a way we don't yet understand, perhaps it's simply part of the slang of whatever century this story is set in. Perhaps it's a shortened form of some other name.

I guess I'm just suggesting that we don't all assume the Hindu goddess interpretation and try to hammer the facts to fit that pattern, because there is the possiblity that looks in this case are deceiving and we are overlooking another meaning.