List of things named Daedalus

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The following objects are named after Daedalus:

Fictional characters and objects in writing

• The original Daedalus is a tragic inventor from Greek mythology, father of Icarus, and creator of the Labyrinth
• 'Nathan Dedalus' is the title of the second chapter of Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer.
• Daedalus is a character in Rick Riordan's The Battle of the Labyrinth, the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
• Daedalus Tighe is a bookmaker who blackmails Flashman in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman's Lady (1977)
• Dedalus Diggle is a member of the Order of The Phoenix, in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Stephen Dedalus is the main character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, as well as an important character in Joyce's Ulysses, and is often considered to be based on Joyce himself.
• The Daedalus is one of the rocket ships in Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1950).

Fictional characters and objects in film and television

• In the 2000 movie Space Cowboys, the Air Force's 1950s experimental space program is called "Project Daedalus" and later the name of the fictional STS-200 mission.
• In the 1986 movie SpaceCamp, Daedalus is the name of the space station from which the crew gets extra tanks of oxygen.
• Daedalus is the code name of an arms-dealing villain in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight.
• Daedalus is a seven-part webseries entered into Movie Extra Webfest. A promotional website was set up at whatisdaedalus.com.
• The Daedelus Class is a fictional Federation starship class in the Star Trek universe.
• "Daedalus" is the title of a 4th Season episode of the series Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Daedalus is the name of Julien Luna's Nosferatu advisor in the TV series Kindred: The Embraced.
• The Daedalus is Earth's second interstellar battlecruiser/deep-space carrier in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. As it was the first DSC-304 built, ships of the same class are sometimes referred to as Daedalus-class.

The name used in music

• Daedelus is a sampled-based musician who mixes IDM-style rhythms with childlike arrangements from the 1930s and 1940s.
• "Daedalus Rising" is a song by Death in June
• The chorus of the song "Carry On Wayward Son," by the prog rock band Kansas, is from the point of view of Daedalus speaking to Icarus.
• Daedalus is mentioned at the beginning of the song "Mercury" by Clutch. "Daedalus your child is falling/and the labyrinth is calling"
• In the Joe Jackson song "Fugue 2/Song of Daedalus" from the album Heaven and Hell, an album dealing with the seven deadly sins, Jackson uses Daedalus as an example of pride.
• Daedalus is the name of a song by Thrice, which briefly tells the story of him and his son Icarus. It is featured on the Air disc of their album The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV.
• "Daedalus" is a single track album by ambient one-piece, Fear of Mirrors. It was released in 2009 on the music database Last.fm and can be found on the projects page.
• "Daedalus" is the name of a song by Deafheaven on their demo.

The name used in games

• Daedalus is the name of an artificial intelligence in the video game Deus Ex.
• Daedalus is a very powerful summon in the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age
• In the game Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the U.S.) Monica receives a sword once owned by her father called "Holy Daedalus Sword".
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh card game there are two monsters. The names are Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo Daedalus and Levia-Dragon Daedalus.
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D‍ '​s series there is a bridge that connects New Domino City with the Satellite named the Daedalus Bridge.
• The Daedalus Attack is the name of a super move of the character Tizoc/Griffon Mask from the Fatal Fury series.
• Daedalus Encounter is the name of sci-fi cut scene / puzzle video game by Panasonic starring Tia Carrere for the 3DO home system.
• Daedalus is the name of a space station orbiting the planet Mercury in the fictitious universe of the computer game Frontier: Elite II, published by Konami in 1993.
• The 17th boss of Final Fantasy XII is named Daedalus, who protects the Ancient City of Giruvegan.
• A mundane (but still powerful) enemy based on the above creature appears in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
• Daedalus is the name of a spacecraft which deals with goods in the 2001 computer game Unreal II.
• Daedalus is the name of a flying fortress in the game Ninja Gaiden 2.
• Daedalus is the name of the main adversary in the game Resistance 2.
• The aircraft carrier in the second USA mission of Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour is called the USS Daedalus (CVN-88).
• In Red Dead Redemption, a Stranger mission is called "Deadalus and Son" and is about a man building a flying machine, which is just a primitive hang glider.
• Daedalus is the name of a flying helicarrier used by STAG in the game Saints Row: The Third.
• The OF-1 Daedalus is the player's ship in the game Image Fight by Irem. The OF-1 also appears in Irem's R-Type Final.
• Daedalus is the name of an item in the game Dota 2. It can increase a hero's damage and critical hit ratio in comparison to Crystalys.
• Daedalus appears a character in Green Ronin Publishing's books relating to Freedom City. The character is described as the mythological Daedalus rather than being named after the same character.

The name used in animations and cartoons

• Daedalus is a character in the anime Ergo Proxy
• In the pixel art comic Kid Radd the characters travel into a (fictional) game called Old Daedalus; a parody of the nes game Kid Icarus.
• In the science fiction anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) and its American adaptation Robotech (1985), the SLV-111 Daedalus is a landing vessel that is stranded in space and docked with the SDF-1 Macross space fortress.
• The evil Daedalus is a voiced by Gerry Bascombe and is a major enemy on The Mighty Hercules cartoon of the 1960s.
• Daedalus is the creator of the first Generation Angeloids Nymph, Ikaros, and Astraea, in the anime Sora No Otoshimono, or Heaven's Lost Property.

Real people

• Daedalus Howell is an American author, filmmaker and media personality who often appears as a character in his own work.
• Daedelus of Sicyon was a Greek sculptor and artist.^[1]

Publications

• Dedalus Books is a publishing house in Cambridgeshire, U.K.^[2]
• Daedalus Books is a seller of books, music and video in Columbia, Maryland.
• Daedalus is Greenwich Academy's literary magazine.
• Daedalus was a column in the science journal Nature.
• Daedalus is the official journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, published by MIT Press.

Companies

• Dedalus Architecture is a firm of Architects in Donegal, Ireland.
• Daedalus Creative Services is a commercial design company on the island of Cyprus that bases its whole function of operations on the mythos of Daedalus (metaphorically fabricating wings of creative design for business to "fly" to success.)
• Daedalus Enterprises was a small engineering company located in Ann Arbor Michigan that developed airborne imaging systems from 1968 until it merged with ST Research in 1998. The resulting company was called Sensytech. Sensytech merged with Argon Engineering in 2004 to form Argon ST. Daedalus survives as part of the Argon ST Imaging Group and continues to develop airborne imaging systems. Argon ST was purchased by the Boeing Company on August 5, 2010 for approximately $775 million.
• Daedalus is a restaurant/pub located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its address is 45½ Mount Auburn Street.
• Daedalus Theatre Company is a UK-based experimental theatre company.
• Daedalus is a research, design, and engineering consulting firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm is the result of the merger of Daedalus Design and Excel Technology in 2000.
• Daedalian Glass is a bespoke architectural glass designer and manufacturer based in the UK.
• Theatre Daedalus is a playwright-run theatre company based in Columbus, Ohio.
• Daedalus Dalmatians are owners, breeders and exhibitors of Dalmatians. Based in Monk Bretton, South Yorkshire.

Products

• Daedalus Web server in England
• The MIT Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft.
• Daedalus is a N64 emulator for the PlayStation Portable made by StrmnNrmn
• Daedalus is a system-level design framework for multimedia MultiProcessor Systems-on-a-Chip (MP-SoCs)
• Daedalus is a maze creation, solving, viewing, analysing, and scripting program.

Military

• HMS Daedalus was a ship in the Royal Navy
• Daedalus Mess is one of the officers' messes at RAF Cranwell
• The Order of Daedalians is a fraternal and professional order of American military pilots.

Research projects

• Project Daedalus is an ongoing SEDS research program at the University of Central Florida to design and launch a suborbital sounding rocket.^[3]
• Research activities concerning the Psychology of MMORPG's carried out by Nick Yee are called the Deadalus Project. An overview of these activities can be found at the Daedalus Gateway.^[4]
• Project Daedalus was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible unmanned interstellar spacecraft.

Miscellaneous

• Daedalus Reef, a reef between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in the center of the Red Sea.
• Daedalus is the name of the IT Services building in University College Dublin.
• Daedalus is the name of the Boeing Company's private corporate yacht.
• Daedalea is the generic terminology for a group of mushrooms known as Maze-gills.^[5]

References

1. ↑ A Handbook of Greek Sculpture, Volume 2, page 338, Ernest Arthur, Macmillan, 1897.
2. ↑ Dedalus Books, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
3. ↑ SEDS-UCF Project Daedalus
4. ↑ Deadalus Gateway
5. ↑ Phillips, Roger (1983), Mushrooms, Pub. Pan Books, London. ISBN 0-330-26441-9. P. 233.