So I'm curious, Holla Forums: When you play space vidya that allows you to customize your spaceships or build them from scratch, what's your naming convention for different classes/models? Do you make them random, have them be representative of the utility, or keep them all as "Unnamed Player Ship #17"?
I like to pick a sci fi show and name them appropriately after main crew. Like
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I'll give the smallest ships bombastic names like
While giving the largest and most powerful ships pathetic names.
I usually name them after WH40k ships
I name them after Hengist and Horsa and other Anglo-Saxons. They brought the English to Britain so I larp like they're taking them to the far reaches of space.
If I name a single class of ship, it's usually going to be a variant of a weapon. Rapier, Cutlass, Messer, Halberd, and the like. Fairly dull, truthfully, but it serves its purpose.
For proper ship names, I like to go full Halo style naming. Always loved the kind of dramatic whatnot to them. Things like "Truth and Reconciliation", especially. Although, the UNSC had some fun ones too. Say My Name, for instance, and obviously Pillar of Autumn.
Not too hard to design a name around that. Just take either a little bit of out-of-connect stuff from a book, or jam two big-sounding words together. Penitent Atlas, for instance.
Incidentally, my biggest ships, usually the end of whatever tech-tree is available, and outfitted with my very best of equipment, are always built in a single line of four, named after the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
To clarify Hengist and Horsa are usually my exploration type vessels or scouts. The larger battleship / dreadnaught types are usually named King Alfred Class, æthelwulf class, Beowulf class. Cruisers and the like are usually after lesser known kings like Raedwald, Sigeberht or Osric, I use the same naming convention for destroyer type ships.
I have a list.
Also Op's ship would be torn apart in seconds by anything with beam lasers
I often like to name things based off of military codes and weapon names, I like the names of america's missiles in particular
You know, things like "THIN MAN" for generic or overproduced ships, "FAT MAN" for the big guns, or "PEACE MAKER" if I think it's a real doozy
Just 1, 2, 3 etc.
I also like to name based off of mythological characters sometimes, but I think "Leviathan" is way overused by this point