Naming your ships

[Thexare]

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.