QUOTE (sabs @ Dec 28 2010, 04:55 PM)

Foque: means nothing
Foc : is a type of Sail
Phoque: Seal
"foque" is actually a possible, if dated, spelling for "foc".
QUOTE (hermit @ Dec 28 2010, 05:01 PM)

Yes, it's the company. ESPRIT Industries is a creature of SR France and basically a number of French aeronautics and weapons companies rolled into one and given a cool name. And given the naming convention in France this probably needs to be revised too ...
Esprit Industries actually first appeared in
Fields of Fire, as the manufacturer if the military grade armor. As the only French corporation mentioned in Shadowrun for some time (along with French-Italian Renault-Fiat), French sourcebook
France and
Shadows of Europe expanded over that single mention.
SOTA:2063 already mentioned an Esprit Phoque assault hovercraft, which is likely to be the same vehicle.
The current naming convention in the French Army is acronym, with the occasional attempt of a double meaning (like the CAESAR, camion équipe d'un système d'artillerie, "truck equipped with an artillery system). Only helicopters have a special naming convention with felid names (Lynx, Puma, Cougar, Tigre), and missiles and airplanes who have no convention at all.
QUOTE (Sengir @ Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM)

-- Dunkelzahn. For a S-K product. No comment.
I guess no people at CGL has ever read Earthdawn sourcebook
Dragons and that part about how names are important to dragons...