Callsign
Generate AC6-style codenames for projects and tools
Overview
Callsign names your projects and the tools around them the way Armored Core VI
names its parts. A project gets a frame designation and a 3-letter acronym you
can say out loud; a service gets a weapon name from the same manufacturer. Every
house keeps its own grammar, and the same words always give the same name.
Live: callsign.neorgon.com
Features
- Forge -- type what you are naming, pick a slot and a house, and get plates with a designation, a 3-letter acronym and 4-letter variants
- Fifteen game houses -- each in-game manufacturer's naming grammar, from Furlong's
BML-G1/P20MLT-04 codes and IBIS-style IB-C03H: HAL 826 plates to entomologists' surnames, haiku poets and German birds
- Seven Callsign originals -- houses of Callsign's own in the same style, not in the game, whose words are real but little-known science that reads like science fiction:
JV-R69/H SINOPE (Jupiter's outer moons), UMK-331H WRINKLON (exotic particles), L3-LR013 FISSION SAIL (megastructures and drives), Uto-366H UNTRIOCTIUM (placeholder element names), PE-12SN ARISTOLOCHIA (strange flora), SV-2500H STYGIOMEDUSA (deep sea and extremophiles), PT-LZ159 NASCENT STATE (retired constellations and spent science)
- Lexicon -- every word family the houses draw from, filtered by subject (animals, plants, space, physics...) or language (German, Spanish, Latin, Japanese...), with the sources behind every original family's list and a lookup that says which house and family any word or designation comes from
- Acronyms from your words -- "release automation daemon" gives RAD; type RAD on its own and the houses that carry letters stamp it into their codes
- Garage -- name a whole system as one build: the frame for the project, inner parts for the platform, four weapons for its tools
- Matched frames -- head, core, arms and legs share one line name, the way a game frame does (except Melinite, which names each part on its own), or switch to mixed parts
- Deterministic rolls -- Reroll moves forward, Back moves back, and a share link reopens the exact build
- Export -- a Markdown table for a README, JSON for a script, or plain text for a chat message
- Paste kit -- every plate's Copy menu gives a README badge, a chat line, a wiki line or a link; a build copies its badges as one block
- Command line --
tools/callsign.mjs runs the same engine from a terminal, for scripts and the neorgon-forge callsign skill
- Hangar -- saved builds stay in this browser's local storage, marked when an older grammar made them; opening someone's build link keeps yours here first
How a name is built
| Slot | Names | Answers to |
|---|
| Head | frontend, dashboard, client app | acronym |
| Core | main API or backend service | acronym |
| Arms | integrations, SDKs, adapters | acronym |
| Legs | infrastructure, hosting, runtime | acronym |
| Booster | CI/CD, deploys, release automation | acronym |
| FCS | monitoring, alerting, analytics | acronym |
| Generator | database, queue, event bus | acronym |
| Expansion | failover, kill switch, backups | acronym |
| Weapons | one tool or service each (rifle for a general service, missile launcher for a scheduler, pulse shield for auth, pile bunker for a one-shot migration, and so on) | name |
A plate is a pure function of what you typed, the house, the slot and the roll
number. Houses stamp only a code and a name; acronyms, readings and the callsign
are assembled the same way for every house, in js/forge.js.
The word pools are Callsign's own picks from public sources in the same vein as
each manufacturer, with every in-game proper name left out. In-game part names
appear on the Houses page only as reference examples, and js/canon.js rerolls
any plate that lands exactly on a real part's designation (it holds hashes of
the 231 designations, not the names). The themes are patterns read off the part
names, not statements from the developers. Callsign is an unofficial fan tool,
not affiliated with FromSoftware or Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Sources for the grammars: the official AC6 online manual and patch notes
1.05 to 1.07, the Wikidot AC6 wiki's part descriptions, the part data in
matteosal/ac6-advanced-garage,
and Wikipedia's lists of entomologists and of the Purple Forbidden and Supreme
Palace enclosures. The seven original houses cite their own on the Lexicon page: Wikipedia's
lists of moons, particles, megastructures, carnivorous plants and former
constellations, IUPAC's rules for naming new elements, the World Register of
Marine Species and The Parasitic Plant Connection, among others.
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