how do you name your ships

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:10 am

th15 wrote:Pantheon.org

This, and the Wikipedia of "List of Greek Mythological figures".

Jetz · Post by **Jetz** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:28 am

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.

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:21 pm

Arona Daal wrote:
Spoot Knight wrote:
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 _______")

Example:

Titan - "Gabriel"
Destroyer - "Dragoon"

Saying "The Dragoon" doesn't sound as good as saying "The Gabriel", but a "Dragoon class destroyer" sounds pretty nice.
Actually neither one of those sound good at ALL with "The" on it...

I try, key word "try" to use a judgemental (?) system, like Liberty, Vindicator, Judgement, Liberator, Patriot, Independence.
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.

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.

The Galatea, The Bastion, The Aquataine, The Psamtik, The Colossus, names used on FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2, that sound good as a unique name.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:17 pm

/me laments the GVD Psamtik

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:32 pm

You wha?

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:49 pm

Here you go.

Really good for some obscure and random English words you might want to use.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:08 am

Lol. I din't even know hottentot was an English word. This one's gonna help.

Stella Cadente · Post by **Stella Cadente** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:53 am

I just use the names of real ships and towns mainly, like my cruiser the HMS Birmingham, is obviously named after.........thats right Birmingham

Mjolnir · Post by **Mjolnir** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:45 am

Spoot Knight wrote:You wha?

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.

Billy Joe Bob · Post by **Billy Joe Bob** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:03 am

I rip off Ace Combat names >_>
Things like Scinfaxi, Hrimfaxi, Aigaion and the like.

Jetz · Post by **Jetz** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:43 am

http://www.mediafire.com/?zttnn24dydm

Random word generator.

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:08 pm

Mjolnir wrote:
Spoot Knight wrote:You wha?
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.

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..."

RavingManiac · Post by **RavingManiac** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:55 pm

I name my ships after melee weapons like Longsword, Broadsword, Mace and, for my first Ubership, Chuck Norris

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antisocialmunky · Post by **antisocialmunky** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:41 pm

RavingManiac wrote:I name my ships after melee weapons like Longsword, Broadsword, Mace and, for my first Ubership, Chuck Norris .

Did two giant guns on it, one named 'Law' and hte other named 'Order'?

Sorry, I had to make that reference.

Arona Daal · Post by **Arona Daal** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:22 am

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 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 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.

I name my ships after melee weapons like Longsword, Broadsword, Mace...

Claymore, Flamberdge (sp?), Hyperion, etc.
Good category for ship names.