Unusual spaceship names

[IanBruntlett]

Space ship names – inspired by the names in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

Note: if you are running a Judge Dredd or Strontium Dog campaign then as well as providing names for ships it could be adapted to provide names for City Blocks or Freeways.

1. The Unexpected Interrupt.
2. Suggestions of Intimacy.
3. The victory over [insert species/race/system name here]
4. The [geographical feature e.g. river]
5. The [adjective/activity] [creature/person/occupation]
6. The [1st pet name][1st streetname]
7. Lawyer Slayer
8. The Whimsy
9. The Battle of [insert location here]
10. The Not Again
11. The Unforeseen Consequence
12. The Inappropriate Monicker
13. The Perennial Platitude
14. The Polysyllabic Nonsense
15. Thwarted Ambition
16. Did you mean to say that?
17. The Big Girl's Blouse

 

[locarno24]

I always liked the Culture Warships. My personal favourites:

1) Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me That Again
2) Lapsed Pacifist
3) I Said, I've Got A Big Stick
4) Attitude Adjuster

 

[2330ADUSA1]

My players have always used...StarScream!

 

[Old timer]

'Melon of Troy' for a ship name in my current traveller game.

 

[Hopeless]

Space Rats in the Star Wars campaign I played in.

Been a while since the last session but currently we're still using Darth Vader's personal shuttle as he threw our last freighter into the skeletal structure of the Second Death Star when we pulled a "Villa"* and escaped from the prison cell aboard a Star Destroyer after learning he was coming!

And who says being a Tongue Tied Engineer and Force Sensitive never came in useful?!

*A Blake Seven reference for those left wondering

 

[GJD]

The Ruby Murray (rhyming slang for Curry).

 

[AdrianH]

Borrowed from someone else, possibly inspired by Iain M. Banks: Accusatory Finger of Suspicion.

In one RPG in which I was playing, the female player got the job of ship's captain. She promptly named the ship Floppy Ears.

 

[hdan]

Not that these are too unusual, but in my game we have:

The Laughing Dolphin
The Brass Ring
One Man's Trash
Semper Mercanti
Black Vengeance

 

[jappel]

I recall someone similarly inspired by Mr. Banks' books naming a free trader "Driver Carries No Change".

 

[chrisdw]

In campaigns I've run we've had

Hawkwind
Hiccup
Hiccup II

 

[locarno24]

Hiccup II

I find myself half expecting a free trader call the "Seriously, How Many Corsairs Are There In This Sector? VII"

 

[SSWarlock]

Back in my college days, I had a player who came up with an ethically challenged ship named "Middle Finger". :roll:

 

[PoppySeed45]

As always, Ian M. Banks wins:

Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival

Irregular Apocalypse

Of Course I Still Love You

Size Isn't Everything

Man, I do love the Culture...can't we have Traveller The Culture already?

 

[IanBruntlett]

Man, I do love the Culture...can't we have Traveller The Culture already?

+1

 

[Myrm]

My first Traveller game we named the ship 'Who, Me?'

 

[Mithras]

We had the Hispaniola and the Heebie Jeebie!

 

[Mithras]

My current safari ship is called the Vanishing Point.

 

[locarno24]

Man, I do love the Culture...can't we have Traveller The Culture already?

+1

+2, +3 and +4... It's one I'd love to see.

 

[blackangus]

Hazard to Navigation is our perennial favorite.

 

[Vargrz]

For unusual ship names (say I want to have the names of the various ships at a starport) I sometimes use funky band names!

Really, can't you see a ship named:
Iron Butterfly
Crack the Sky
Operation Ivy
Lovin' Spoonful
Velvet Underground
Cowboy Junkies
Black Flag
Twisted Sister
Cheap Trick
Faith No More
Fastball
Halfcocked
King Missile
Magnificent Tracers
Modest Mouse
Etc...