Starship Names

[Paladin]

Let's hear them.

"Flaming Pigeon"
"Centurion Hawk" (millenium falcon spin...)
"Legacy"

 

[Golan2072]

"The Jovial Cockroach"

 

[RedBeardSean]

The Belligerence-class battleships.

Belligerence
Acrimony
Anger
Animosity
Antagonism
Enmity
Hatred
Hostility
Loathing
Opposition
Rancor
Violence
:shock:

 

[Jeff Hopper]

"Hell's Jalopy"
"Yankee Peddler"
"Angel of Shylocke"

 

[TrippyHippy]

"Serendipity".....which I always thought was a more appropriate name for Serenity.

 

[Majestic7]

"Itchy Virgin"
"Joys of Capitalism"
"Mysteries of the Void"
"Lost Kitten"
"Strephon's Mistress"
"Unexpected Solution"
"Saint Sinner"


...those are only the ones that aren't "typical", such as the usual Planet-class cruisers, female names and names of stars et cetera.

 

[FreeTrav]

There was a period of time where spammers were sending out their spam with subject lines of two or three random words, often obscure ones. I collected a bunch of them specifically to use as ship names:

Radiation Regatta
Comet Catamaran
Styrofoam Pterodactyl
Alluvial Lifeboat
Meek Mollusc
Jeffersonian Polyglot
Lumbering Meropidae
Infrared Fluff
Biharmonic Essay
Diffusible Moose
Algebraic Embarcadero
Precut Apparition
Chessplaying Odometer

...

 

[Scarecrow]

ISS Mostly Fixed

Crow

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Righteous Indignation

(Yeah, I know, I nicked it from a TV cartoon, but hey, whatever )

 

[Skaran]

Righteous Indignation

(Yeah, I know, I nicked it from a TV cartoon, but hey, whatever )

Sounds like it would make a good name for a member of my Solomani "Ultimate Victory" class superdreadnought. Another name in the class apart from Ultimate Victory that was used is High Justice.

 

[Libris]

I like some of the warship names used by the Royal Navy

Ark Royal
Audacious
Defiance
Devastation
Dreadnought
Illustrious
Indefatigable
Invincible
Renown
Repulse
Revenge
Terror
Victorious
Victory

And others

On another vein HMS Spanker does bring a slight smirk. Until that is you realise that the ISS Spanker just clearing the planets' horizon is in fact a detached duty quarter million ton battlecruiser.

 

[Duroon]

My PC's finally settled on Paradise Lost for their ship, It was a close race between that and Stellar Wind.

 

[Matrix Cypher]

Stellar Profit


A new ship named after a very very very profitable series of transactions.

 

[EDG]

Righteous Indignation

(Yeah, I know, I nicked it from a TV cartoon, but hey, whatever )

Funny, I was just about to suggest that too!

(let's croak us some toads!)

 

[Infojunky]

My crowd just christened their 4000 ton trader "The Bellowing Cod"

 

[Fireflame]

After a brief fistfight, my players finally decided on...

"The Duchess"

 

[Xoph]

I went with "Kian Knight" for the streamlined Corsair I sold the players. They also could have chosen ships like:
The Rutilus Tempestas for a yacht
The Double Happiness for a free trader
The Steel Swan for a far trader, yeah it is a bit Millennium Falcon
The Silver Ounce for a Type K, Animal Class Safari Ship (ounce is a cat)

 

[Cleon the Mad]

Let's see...won't claim these are all that wonderful, but the first names that come to mind:

Glorious Glutton (For a Fat Trader)
Gossamer Emu
The Monkey's Paw (I was GM, players took on some semi-aquatic ape like creatures as pets/mascots that were in MTU so they renamed their ship that)
Deflated Tesseract (Was for a lab ship, semi-common NPC my players would bump into had this ship)
One More Jump, One More Payment (Free Trader, usually just refered to as "One Jump" though).

Have a lot of others but that's possibly the most interesting.

 

[Shiloh]

Look to Iain M Banks for inspiration... Killing Time is such a splendid warship name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture)#Novels

for more.

 

[Loz]

I've always adored the Culture ship names. Wikipedia's got a comprehensive guide to them. Some are laugh-out loud funny, others head-scratchingly esoteric and some just plain weird/silly. But all great inspiration.