So the description says the namesake Drake for NROL 38 is rooted in Greek mythology, Old English, and honors a former NRO employee who lost a valiant fight against cancer.
Drake or fire Drake comes from the Old English for dragon in Greek mythology. There's a legend of the drako or three headed dragon.
This statement is derived from the Greek myth of the dragon drako when a Greek king asked the oracle if he could be successful in war.
Okay hold on an apple a garden guarded by a snake sounds a lot like another story we've heard before but this is in Greek mythology so the golden apples of the disparities garden it was guarded by a laden or lad on I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce that but it was a dragon serpent with multiple heads sometimes three sometimes a hundred.