Naming Ideas - Dilgar and Vree

Anyone have any ideas how ships of the Dilgar Imperium and Vree Conglomerate would be named? I'm guessing the Dilgar would have warlike, military-type names but presumably in their own language, so ending up something like gibberish. For the Vree I'm pretty stumped.

All help gratefully received.
 
No help in general here; I'll just note that ship class names usually originate from the first ship of the class produced, so there should be one Targrath that is named the "Targrath", a Vree Xill that is named the "Xill", and so forth.

Ship names have an association with geography historically, and I see no reason why that should not continue. In particular, consider that the Omelos, Wahant, and Rohric are named for conquered Dilgar worlds. The only exception is Innata, which would be a reasonable class name for any conjectural super-dreadnought.

Geographical locations on Omelos are available (in VERY small print) in the 1st Edition Dilgar Imperium supplement on page 21. You'll need a magnifying glass, but they're there. I, in particular, notice a city named "Arthaskala", which you might recognize as the old name for the Wahant-class.

For painting purposes, the best I can do to offer help is an insight to the Dilgar character set. On page 11 of the Dilgar Imperium supplement is a still of Jha'Dur. I believe the uniform she is wearing is, indeed, Dilgar. There are scrawls on the gold badge that look suspiciously like letters, and are almost clear enough to make out in total. That can give you a start, if you like.
 
I'll have a read through LCs epic and find some if you want - no canon I supose (but often better :wink: )

:D

OK

Dilgar

Dominator, Conqueror, Overlord, Deathwalker, Vanquisher, Tar'Tef, Vendetta
 
well I guess translations form the Dilgar language and yes - not sure if you would want them give their source..................
 
Lord David the Denied said:
neko said:
Vree strike me as the sort who would use designations rather than names for their ships.

Perhaps the class names are descriptive rather than actual names, say, Xill could mean "battle saucer" or something like that.

They could even be designative in nature. After all, there are a lot of repeated characters and patterns :P
 
My Vree ships are more comical in their names:

Crop Circle
Conspiracy
Visitor
Invader
Plan 9
Abductor
Klatu
Borata
Nictu
Gort
Hanger 18
Roswell
Area 51
Probe
Cow Mutilator
Mulder
Scully
X-Files
MIB
ET
UFO
....

I've got tons of them, so I can give you a more complete list if interested.
 
I usually go to the GW daemon true name generator and use the first couple of sylables (assuming they are pronouncable of course)
http://uk.games-workshop.com/hordesofchaos/name-generator/1/
 
Crop Circle
Conspiracy
Visitor
Invader
Plan 9
Abductor
Klatu
Borata
Nictu
Gort
Hanger 18
Roswell
Area 51
Probe
Cow Mutilator
Mulder
Scully
X-Files
MIB
ET
UFO
....
Any ship named 'Plan 9' should be destroyed on sight, even by the owning fleet. The movie was that bad. All referance to it should be scorched from existence. Don't see the movie. It's like reading a book from Cthulhu. You want to know what it's all about but the knowledge destroys your mind.
 
Ironwolf44 said:
Any ship named 'Plan 9' should be destroyed on sight, even by the owning fleet. The movie was that bad. All referance to it should be scorched from existence. Don't see the movie. It's like reading a book from Cthulhu. You want to know what it's all about but the knowledge destroys your mind.

...Future events such as these will affect YOU; In The Future...

:wink:
 
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