The Kettlecoater, an Alliance flagship, derives its name from Quetzalcoatl, the all-powerful legendary god and ruler from Toltec and Aztec mythology.
Romanization note: Kettlecoater in kana is ketsuarukoatoru. The kana was so far off that I figured that the English had to be wrong.. I never guessed it was Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl, Toltec and Aztec god and legendary ruler of Mexico, usually
referred to as the Plumed/Feathered Serpent or Feathered
Snake. One of the major deities of the Aztecs, Toltecs, and other Middle American peoples. He is the creator sky-god and wise
legislator. He organized the original cosmos and participated in the creation and destruction of various world periods. Quetzalcoatl ruled the
fifth world cycle and created the humans of that cycle. The story goes that he descended to Mictlan, the underworld, and gathered the bones of
the humanbeings of the previous epochs. Upon his return, he sprinkled his own blood upon these bones and fashioned thus the humans of the new
era. He is also a god of the wind (the wind-god Ehecatl is one of his forms), as well as a water-god and fertility-god.
In LoGH, the Kettlecoater was the flagship of the Alliance 7th Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Hoghwood.
Microsoft Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761557607
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/q/quetzalcoatl.html
Researchers: Rob Ketcherside
kettlecoater.htm / October 15, 2000