Naming Earth Alliance ships.

[lastbesthope]

Well it's not EA but I have a hankering to name a 5 shiup fleet after some of the Star Wars Characters Luke, Biggs, Wedge, Han & Chewie, let the paraphrasing of SW dialogue commence :lol:

LBH

 

[mthomason]

Well it's not EA but I have a hankering to name a 5 shiup fleet after some of the Star Wars Characters Luke, Biggs, Wedge, Han & Chewie, let the paraphrasing of SW dialogue commence :lol:
LBH

Looks like you watched all three of those shiny new DVDs in a row. I have a bad feeling about this...

(btw, mine arrived today!)

 

[lastbesthope]

Mine arrived on Saturday, watched them Sunday.

All Power to Engines shall be renamed:

"Increase Speed Full Throttle, that ought to keep those fighters off our backs!"

Scanners to Full is renamed "Pick up your visual scanning!"

:lol:

LBH

 

[MustEatBrains]

And my Omega is named Nimrod (for the X-men villain, I think :wink: ).

An Omega with this name was part of the second wave attacking B5 in "Severed Dreams", btw.

I look at northern mythology when naming my EA ships, but I try to avoid the better known names like "Thor, Odin, Loki..."

I rather go for lesser known gods (Heimdall), heroes (Sigurdr), creatures/monsters (Ymir) and the like (I´ve studied skandinavian literature at university for a while).

Since I´m currently in the process of naming my EA fleet, I can´t give a detailed list yet (still not happy with some names), but you get the idea. There are so many more mythologies floating around than just Greeks and Romans; I guess that Earth would have to look there for new names eventually.

 

[Greg Smith]

And my Omega is named Nimrod (for the X-men villain, I think :wink: ).

An Omega with this name was part of the second wave attacking B5 in "Severed Dreams", btw.

Yeah I know. Hence the :wink: I chose the name from the selection on Griffin Game's decal sheet.

 

[Slightly Norse John]

Nimrod's graeco-roman mythology, he was a great hunter, which is why the RAF stuck the name on their sub- hunter and AEW type.

Sometimes I bother to name them, sometimes I go Russian- they're ordnance items, expendable. The crew aren't supposed to get attached to them. Then again, the crew are expendable too.

For me it's the Centauri who get RN- derived names, the Dilgar get mythical and the scarier real animals, and the EA, when they do, get named after people. Sometimes even appropriate ones.

I deployed a string of Warlocks named after characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, although I did stop before I got as far as Puck and Bottom. Then there was a string of cowards and losers, including EAS Fredendall, Goering, Elphinstone- Novas- and the fictional quartet of EAS Leonard Mandella- Assault Hyperion- Josef Schweik- Apollo- Max Klinger- Hyperion- and Earth Alliance Ship [/i]Captain John Yossarian, USAAF. Which last unfortunately turned out one of the most spectacular single ship performances I have ever been priviledged to be responsible for.

Sometimes, actually, I don't name them until after they've seen action; they have to earn it.

 

[Shadow Queen]

EAS Uncle Albert?

That one is certain to go down with all hands aboard.

And it'll hurt a bit too :wink:

 

[Nomad]

I tend to use a mix of classical mythological (Theseus, an Oracle, Electra, Ulysses, Ajax, Achilles, all Hyperions) and historical military (Leonidas, Belisarius, Jeanne d'Arc - Chronii) names, together with some shameless Royal Navy cribs (Repulse, Renown - Apollos, Swiftsure, an Omega, Triumph, my Avenger).

Also, there are a few from other traditions - Novas EAS Suleiman the Magnificent and Ngyuen Vo Giap (North Vietnamese Defence Minister during the wars against the French and Americans. She got a 'Time in Orbit' duty after a campaign battle against the Shadows, and now sports red and yellow VPAF insignia), and Hasan-i-Sabbah seemed rather appropriate for a Delphi (he founded the mediaeval Hashishim/Assassins) . Bismarck and Yamato are my two Shadow Omegas (the third one will now be named Stalin, if I ever get round to building it, 'Littorio' seemed a bit pale).

I don't actually have an EAS Enterprise...yet...

I've just started thinking about names for my Dilgar fleet - for something a little different I'm giving each class it's own name, and each individual hull a number - so the Mishakur is 'Queen of Hell-6', the two Mankhats 'Tormentor-4 and -11' and so forth, the names being suitably bloodthirsty. The idea is based loosely on the Idirians in Ian M Banks' Consider Phlebas.

 

[Shadow Queen]

I go for X-Men and battlestar galactia people i have an Apollo called "Starbuck."

 

[Leroy Landers]

I'm naming my EA fleet after things like video game characters, writers, and characters from greek mythology. I'm going to get a Nemesis and name it the HP Lovecraft, others include Proteus, Edmund Duke, Neuromancer, and names like Yog-Sothoth for ships equipped with shadowtech.

 

[katadder]

think the following should be good names:

EAS Edmund Blackadder
EAS Lord Percy
EAS Baldrick
EAS Nursey

etc etc

 

[Shadow Queen]

I'm naming my EA fleet after things like video game characters, writers, and characters from greek mythology. I'm going to get a Nemesis and name it the HP Lovecraft, others include Proteus, Edmund Duke, Neuromancer, and names like Yog-Sothoth for ships equipped with shadowtech.

And all goes mad with the EAS Cathulu

 

[Silvereye]

I'm going to get a Nemesis and name it the HP Lovecraft,...

The EAS Hastur could cause some interesting problems.

 

[CheesyRobMan]

Easy - cute female celebrities.

EAS Aguilera
EAS Portman
EAS Bellucci
EASs Pinder & Marsh (working as a pair, obv.)
EAS Tunstall
EAS Anderson (Gillian, before anyone says anything...)
EAS Longoria
EAS Beckinsale
EAS Knightley
EAS Johansson
EAS Sharapova
EAS Peet
EAS Staite
EAS Church
etc.

This actually works quite well. Well, I think so... maybe I'm just being crude. Although it would depend on your personal tastes...

 

[Greg Smith]

EAS Staite
EAS Church

You should keep those seperate!

 

[Slightly Norse John]

Cheesy RobMan, there's one obvious problem with that scheme;
what happens when they all get horribly maimed, disfigured, eviscerated, and in diverse manner blown to tiny bits? You'll be mopping up gobbets of dead totty...although on the other hand, the nose art would be worth seeing.

The european tradition doesn't extend the honour of having a ship named after them to anyone less than flag rank, usually; the USN only requires that they be dead and vaguely memorable, and there were some truly bizarre warship names in the Soviet navy- things like "The glory of the Steelworkers of Chelyabinsk and their Triumph over the Seventh Five- Year Plan." I'm half tempted to go down that route, simply because reeling the names off would give me more time to think.

 

[Tank]

An interesting course, I for one have been terribbly boring raiding the Royal Navy Fleet lists and nice looking words in the dictionary!!! :lol:

 

[angelus2000]

I actually tend to name mine using the Star Wars lore from the many books series that have come out using Imperial style names.

Avenger
Executor
Provoker
Dominator
Tyrant
Revenge

Some of these are RN style names, others are not.
Since I play Narn, I tend to use to create a longer phrase and then translate into Narnese. "Revenge of the Blood"

 

[WickedE]

EAS Cartman Lee.
That's going to be the name of One ship in an EA fleet. That's a house rule I have in my games.
"One ship must be named EAS Cartman Lee, because I find it HILARIOUS."
I'm hoping to get the EA player to name his Nemesis the Cartman Lee.

 

[lastbesthope]

We need to see a game with an EA Marathon named....


......wait for it ......



..... EAS Snickers

:lol:

LBH