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Personally, when I name anything, I use a random not-word. Krangus dreadnought, Arg Tribe, Iilv Union... If you know any coding language, make a program that randomly chooses letters, alternating consonant-vowel. May sound weird but i saw it used once and the results looked like real words. Still, I just make up a name.
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The Galatea, The Bastion, The Aquataine, The Psamtik, The Colossus, names used on FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2, that sound good as a unique name.Arona Daal wrote:It's nice to know that we have an absolute expert on fictional warship names here. But perhaps my deplorable choice for an example was not as good as I had hoped. Here's another.Spoot Knight wrote:Actually neither one of those sound good at ALL with "The" on it...Arona Daal wrote:For smaller ships, give them a generic name, like "Goliath" which would be a "Goliath Class Destroyer", but for titans and capital (capitol?) ships, give them singular names. ("The _______")
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Titan - "Gabriel"
Destroyer - "Dragoon"
Saying "The Dragoon" doesn't sound as good as saying "The Gabriel", but a "Dragoon class destroyer" sounds pretty nice.
I try, key word "try" to use a judgemental (?) system, like Liberty, Vindicator, Judgement, Liberator, Patriot, Independence.
The "Formidable"
I'm just stressing that for giant ships, you usually assume that there's only one, and that they are not mass-produced, so you give them a single name, instead of a class name.
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Lol. I din't even know hottentot was an English word. This one's gonna help.
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GVD Psamtik was a Vasudan ship on Freespace 2, a fairly powerful one as well. Then it met the Santhanas and exploded as the 4 bigass beam cannons ripped it to shreds.Spoot Knight wrote:You wha?
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I know that...I've owned FreeSpace 2 since it first came out...I want to know what Mike meant by "me laments the GVD Psamtik..."Mjolnir wrote:GVD Psamtik was a Vasudan ship on Freespace 2, a fairly powerful one as well. Then it met the Santhanas and exploded as the 4 bigass beam cannons ripped it to shreds.Spoot Knight wrote:You wha?
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The Bastion and Colossus would be ones that I would use, I don't know what the rest mean. I'd add Olympus and Atlas to the list.The Galatea, The Bastion, The Aquataine, The Psamtik, The Colossus, names used on FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2, that sound good as a unique name.
The HMS "Formidable" was a gunship in the British Royal Navy at the start of WWI, and I think it has the best sounding ship name ever.
Claymore, Flamberdge (sp?), Hyperion, etc.I name my ships after melee weapons like Longsword, Broadsword, Mace...
Good category for ship names.
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