Fair Winds and Following Seas

[Limburger59]

In the wet navy, Fair Winds and Following Seas is a saying - a blessing - used at retirement ceremonies, funerals, commissioning ceremonies as a shipmate leaves for another ship, etc.

What is the equivalent in the Imperial Navy? Something Jump related?

 

[flykiller]

fair solar winds and following orbital rotations?

 

[Jame]

Fair winds and pleasant skies?

 

[agorski]

Something Jump related?

Dim Lighting

 

[Enoki]

How about "May your jump be filled with good memories."

 

[flykiller]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_oration_(ancient_Greece)

"In Thebes, when the seven pyres of corpses had been consumed, the son of Talaus spoke in this way: 'I long for the eye of my army, a man who was good both as a prophet and at fighting with the spear.'”

http://historyguide.org/ancient/funeral.html

"For their principal desire was not wealth but revenge on their enemies, which esteeming the most honourable cause of danger, they made account through it both to accomplish their revenge and to purchase wealth withal; putting the uncertainty of success to the account of their hope, but for that which was before their eyes relying upon themselves in the action, and therein choosing rather to fight and die than to shrink nd be saved, they fled from shame, but with their bodies they stood out the battle; and so in a moment whilst fortune inclineth neither way, left their lives not in fear but in opinion of victory.

43. Such were these men, worthy of their country."

 

[BlackBat242]

Modify to suit for space.

One More Roll

We toast our hearty comrades who have fallen from the skies, and were gently caught by God's own hand to be with him on High.

To dwell among the soaring clouds they've known so well before. From victory roll to tail chase, at heaven's very door.

As we fly among them there, we're sure to head their plea. To take care my friend, watch your six, and do one more roll for me.

— Commander Jerry Coffee, Hanoi, 1968.

Bring me my ship - oh clouds unfold.
Bring me my chariot of fire.
We shall not cease our faithful watch,
Nor shall the sword sleep in our hand,
Till we have gone beyond the stars,
To join that fair immortal band.

Elizabeth Moon, at the end of her sci-fi novel Against the Odds.*

That could generate: "He has gone beyond the stars,
To join that fair immortal band."


* a "future revision" of Blake's Jerusalem as modified by a Space Navy for their use.

 

[boomslang]

What is the equivalent in the Imperial Navy? Something Jump related?

I suggest

Clear skies and true Jumps.

 

[wbyrd]

"may you always have empty screens, and full tanks..."

 

[atpollard]

"May your Liftoffs equal your Landings."

"The meek may inherit the earth, but only the brave will claim the stars!"

"Ships and spacers rust in port."