Strategy Game Collaboration

Experimental RTS/Space sim Collaborative Coding Project.
The goal is to design a game with structure/settings/balance of Starcraft and scale of Eve Online(i.e. huge space battles, space empires,etc).
Though this wouldn't stop anyone from contributing code/feedback/criticism, i'll be coordinating the project.
All code/ideas should be posted in this and subsequent threads which i'll start as needed.
step #1: We will collaboratively create a name for our project.
Each suggestion must explain why this name fits the project and why its better then any other generic name.

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>>These are called Emulators.
>No, they're not. An emulator is a virtual machine that replicates or attempts to replicate the behavior or real hardware. >A virtual machine, such as the JVM, doesn't replicate any real hardware.
virtual machines that run machine code. JVM runs bytecode.

>>Its in the definition. I don't see how you can interpret it otherwise:
>>A program which runs scripts and temporary compiles them into memory
>Right. If your definition of "compiler" is "a program that generates executables", then "to compile" must be "to >generate executables". Therefore, a JIT compiler , by your definition, "generates in-memory executables", as opposed >to a mere compiler, which writes them to a medium.
compiles to memory, what is hard to understand? it should be describe translates chunks of program to native code
 until the program resides in memory. Its a VM with the bytecode translation step removed.


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Compiler: A program which produces executables.
Runtime:A program which loads another program as top execution layer
Virtual machine:A program which executes bytecode
Interpreter:A Virtual Machine which runs scripts
JIT:A program which runs scripts and temporary compiles them into memory
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species.