what are your Ship names.......

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my nameing themes are

1st Navy Flag ship: Ashanti Maru
2nd: Scarlet Tyr
3rd: Fallen Hope

1st Fleet Flag ship: Renew Valor
2nd: Yui Maru
3rd: Hiyato's Blade of Stars
4th: Shinwa's Final Juggment
5th: Grandia
6th: Prize
7th: Rugraknot

Scouts have names like Eye's and other things that involve sences.

i give corvettes squadren names like Tau I, II, III, IV

I give other ships in general 2 part names eg: Andromida Acendent cause it sounds cooler then just one name.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Depends on my Alignment, really. For example if I'm playing with the Good path I name them after heroic battles, leaders, and warships of the past. Usually American, British, German, or Japanese names.

If I'm playing with the Evil dark side, I usually give them intimidating titles, or even various religious extremist ones. In one game I named my leader the Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Earth and gave all my ships and systems names of Iranian cities. :D
Star Control: Origins
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
You just can't beat Iain M. Banks for warship names:

classes: Abominator, Torturer, Gangster, Inquisitor, Killer,Psychopath, Thug

No More Mr Nice Guy
Gunboat Diplomat
It'll Be Over By Christmas
God Told Me To Do It
Thank you And Goodnight
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later
Attitude Adjuster
Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class) :)
I Blame Your Mother
I Blame My Mother
Nuisance Value
All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff
I Said I've Got A Big Stick
Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
Demented But Determined
Thorough But... Unreliable
Reformed Nice Guy
Absence of Gravitas
Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
Gravitas, What Gravitas?
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...
Gravitas Free Zone
Low Gravitas Warning Signal
Absolutely No You-Know-What
Little Gravitas
Zero Gravitas

(a small selection, if you like sci-fi and haven't read Banks you're missing out...)

IMB: "it was a scathing review of Culture ship-naming policy delivered by another Involved civilisation. They suggested that such enormously powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status; the immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like: Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?;
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...; Gravitas Free Zone; Low Gravitas Warning Signal, etc etc (including the Zen-like absolutely No You-No-What). I am so sad I have a separate list of the Gravitas ships at home. It currently runs to about 20, I think."



Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
If I recall correctly, the ships often renamed themselves.

The Culture is great fun, and the ship names (or "fleet" names, for want of a better term - like the Interesting Times Gang) were the best. :)

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Finally found this myself... Don't think it is explained in the manual.

If you click on a ship, you will notice its stats along the bottom screen near the I button. Now. Click on the name. Voila.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I rarely name my ships.. maybe I should!

I do name all my systems though. All based on Pern names and character and such. So I've got Benden and Fort, and Ruatha, Ramoth, Pern of course, Menolly.. so on and so forth.

Bitra for instance, is a class 15 usually.. or less, a pitiful planet. Pern always is a very nice one. LOL

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