This is the first appearance of the Daedalus class battlecruiser, specifically the first ship of the class, the Daedalus itself.

Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.

Homer keeps in memory the dancing floor which Daedalus built for Ariadne in the remote past.

The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

* It is the symbol of the Greek inventor and architect Daedalus

The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus ' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses ( VIII: 183-235 ) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

In the video game Gray Matter a magicians club is named Daedalus, with a winged statue in the lobby in possible relation to him being an icon of magic, science or both.

The name Daedalus is used in James Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, though spelled differently in the last name of the character Stephen Dedalus.

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

Daedalus is the name of a boss that protects Giruvegan in the game Final Fantasy XII.

In the Canadian-American military science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and later in the series Stargate Atlantis, Daedalus is the name for the second interstellar and first intergalactic spaceship built by Homeworld Security.

Daedalus is the name of the human / alien hybrid mastermind behind all the ( Chimeran ) actions and strategies in Insomniac's 2008 game, Resistance 2.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

The Harry Potter character Dedalus Diggle is named after Daedalus.

In modern imagery, the labyrinth of Daedalus is often represented by a multicursal maze, in which one may become lost.

* In the 2010 video game, God of War III ( which is loosely based on Greek mythology ), Daedalus and the Labyrinth are featured but instead of the Labyrinth imprisoning the Minotaur, it imprisons Pandora.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

The main alternative to magnetic confinement is inertial confinement fusion, such as that proposed by Project Daedalus.

The 40, 000 kilometer limit is also referenced in ENT: " Daedalus ".

Currently, designing an ICF system efficient enough for a Daedalus design is still considerably beyond current technical capabilities.

* Euphemus is given as the father of Daedalus by Hyginus, possibly by mistake instead of Eupalamus.

In some versions of the myth, Talos is forged by the inventor Daedalus.

In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI ), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily ; long afterwards Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.

" The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck ," Daedalus Vol.

*" A Sense of the Mysterious ," Daedalus, Fall 2003

* " The Erosion of Academic Privileges and Immunities ," Daedalus, Vol.

* Gordon, Milton M. " Assimilation in America: Theory and Reality ," in Yetman, pp. 245 – 258 / Originally from Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass., vol.

* Henry Steele Commager, " Leadership in Eighteenth-Century America and Today ," Daedalus 90 ( Fall 1961 ): 650 – 673, reprinted in Henry Steele Commager, Freedom and Order ( New York: George Braziller, 1966 ).

* William J. Bouwsma, " The Waning of the Middle Ages ," Daedalus 103 ( 1974 ), 1: 35-43.

Three videos were produced for this album, including " Everywhere You Turn ," which was directed by writer-director Daedalus Howell and featured Longwave performing at the Echo ( a club in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles ) as well as a mannequin factory.

Robin Moody is the founder and President of Daedalus Books.

The final Talislanta supplement published by Wizards in 1994 ended with the announcement that Daedalus Entertainment, a small company which had gained some attention for creating the game Feng Shui, would be publishing a new edition within the year, written by noted game designer Robin Laws.

Robin D. Laws designed the collectable card game Shadowfist, as well as the role-playing game ( RPG ) Feng Shui, originally published by Daedalus Entertainment in 1996 and later published by Atlas Games, as well as supplements for Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is a martial arts-themed role-playing game, designed by Robin Laws, published first by Daedalus Entertainment and now by Atlas Games.

Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

To always remind Daedalus of his treachery, Athena branded him with an image of the bird, so that he would never forget the crime he committed.

Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.

He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him ; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris he owed his admission to the academy for his picture " Daedalus and Icarus " ( Louvre ) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher.