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Naming your ships - Lupusy - 09-07-2008
how do you name a ship....?
ive nevver seen any option to name a ship (and ive bought a few...)
Naming your ships - Fletcher - 09-07-2008
' Wrote:how do you name a ship....?Oh its all in roleplay, like in stories or imagination. e.g. This is Captain Fletcher of the Battleship Pure Idiocy.
ive nevver seen any option to name a ship (and ive bought a few...)
Would love that option though. Read some stories here, some are good reads. I enjoy reading some of Turkish's stuff. "Use the damned fork!!"
Naming your ships - Thexare - 09-07-2008
I don't have one overall pattern. Certain groups or characters might have a pattern, but I don't have one for all my ships.
Lunar Eclipse, unofficial now one-man mercenary group because the other three people stopped playing:
Masamune (IMG Gunboat): Named for the swordsmith - it was the storage ship, so a swordsmith seemed like a good name source. Only a Gunboat because Mercenary ID can't use Transports.
Kusanagi (IMG Gunboat): Named for the legendary Japanese sword, it's Masaru Yoshida's gunboat.
Silvereye (IMG Gunboat, shared): Little backstory here - LE got its name from a long-running series of very small guilds I've had in other games. This gunboat got its name from my typical guildmaster character, an archer/sniper/gunner (depending on game) named Calin Silvereye.
Azure Line Shipping, unofficial now one-man trader group, see above:
Cerulean (Border Worlds Transport): The company is named Azure Line Shipping, what'd you expect?
Black Wind (Raven's Talon): Nathan Black, the man who started ALS, used to be a pirate. This was his ship. He never bothered renaming it, and wasn't good at picking out something really unique.
Outcasts:
Phantasm (Outcast Destroyer), Apparition (gunboat): I wanted a ghost theme for Ayumu's names. I haven't decided why.
Other:
Argent Star (Pirate Transport, smuggler): Just liked the name.
Noblesse Oblige (Pirate Transport, short-lived pirate): I wanted a name that definitely hadn't been taken. Considering it was an attempt at the Robin Hood routine, I'd say it fit well enough. As expected, the rich weren't in the habit of not running... but neither were the poor! People in Rhinos and Startrackers that I intended to give some starting money to ran before I could say anything! So, yeah, gave up on this one.
Naming your ships - Fletcher - 09-07-2008
Great ship names Theraxe.
Naming your ships - Colonel Z.e.r.o. - 09-07-2008
My chars are named after chars I made up.
Naming your ships - Xing - 09-07-2008
The LNS Citadelle de Quebec is named for the Citadel of Quebec in Quebec City. It was a fortress guarding the old city during the war, and now is somewhat part of canadian history.
I also named the LNS Citadel of Montreal (stewcool' cruiser), named after the real Citadel of Montreal that was destroyed by the british during the war.
The LNS Niagara Falls, likewise, was named after the Fort Niagara Falls that fell to the americans (I think?) during the first american invasion of Canada (I think?)
The LNS Fortress Louisburg is named after the real Fortress of Louisburg built by the french to protect their colony in nort america. It was thought invincible. Until a fleet of british navy ships required its surrender.
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The IMS Red Dawn II is named after a ship in Star Wars I think...
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The KNF Amaterasu is named after the japanese mythology godess of the sun.
Naming your ships - dr lameos - 09-07-2008
Only ship I've named is the HMS-Gillingvase
Gillingvase is a beautiful Beach near me in britain. Been voted the best beach in england for the past three years
I know many better beaches - but that one has a nicer name and is fairly well known to tourists, so semi-obscure
Gillingvase (slang is Gilley) also sounds like it could be an upperclass last name
Naming your ships - Colonel Z.e.r.o. - 09-07-2008
Size
Shape
Color
Function
Class
Rareity
Purpose
Unique features: Physical, technological etc.
What it reminds you of
There's a ship I have in mind
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about 1000 meters
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With a streamline/Phalic (I use that term very subtlely) shape that's a bit wide at the end when looking at the dual engine blocks on each side. with 2 bridge like portions and 1 launch bay (much like the Gekko's (eureka 7) bay only on the deck in a stair case fasion. the very front is extremely similar to the head of MG RAY.
![[Image: MGS2_Ray.jpg]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/MGS2_Ray.jpg)
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It's black and gold/yellow with a hint of blue on certain parts.
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The only ship like it (evolved through micro engineering of it's controller. Basic story is she's human enginieered (or altered) by a highly advanced network of nanomachines enabling her to control vessels of a specific origin ( non-earth human affiliated her creators are human....but a differant strain of such which somehow [still working on it] had existed on the other side of the galaxy being a type of back up for the one that intially piloted the ark-like vessel which carried her and her creators to a back water planet several lightyears from earth and their own).
The ship is actually a combination of of a conventional carrier from the nation in my story meant to be an American equivalent and batteship of the "other sentient/human-like race". In a desparate situation the nanomachines answer to the fear and will to survive of Isis R. and force a giant cocoon like energy field around the ship wrecks saving all in danger and capturing the remain of the 2 fallen ships.
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It being the product of the carrier and battleship takes on the best (and possibly worst) qualities, through a proccess very similar to natural selection(I think that's the term).
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It being a black ship it makes me think of shadows it's streamline appearance calls for a name expressing sleekness. A french name regarding something dark.
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My answer The Silhouette
These steps could be used for anything like characters as well.
Naming your ships - Boss - 09-07-2008
Only ship I named was the Freedom's Dream.
Oh, and the LNS Hampton Roads, which later because 522nd.
Hampton Roads was the site of a Civil War battle.
Naming your ships - stewcool - 09-07-2008
Tenabras I was trying to find a name for by searching
Gods and I figured it was the bringer of death.
The name of Tenabras is the lord of the dragon realm
underworld I believe and thats how it got its name
Montreal was for Canadian RP
Celestial.Freight was from when I was looking at the sky = Celestial
(which meens part sky)
My newest name Im giving a prototype model is Kalyco(Kali-Co)
That name just popped into my head
Order "Kalyco" Battlecruiser (Not a real model just a name.)