Think I may have replied to one of these things before... but I've probably acquired a couple more ships since then.
Anyway. When I realized I was going to go through several ships, I decided I needed a consistent naming scheme... and I used the names (or bits of the names) of various compositions by Gustav Holst, who's one of my favourite composers. He's best known for the "Planets" suite, but so far I've steered clear of that one.
So, to date it's
Light cruiser - USS Hammersmith
Cruiser - USS Beni Mora
Heavy Cruiser - USS Brook Green
Exploration Cruiser - USS Egdon Heath
Assault Cruiser - USS Savitri
Mirror Universe Assault Cruiser - USS Sita (my main ship for a good long while)
Mirror Universe Star Cruiser - USS Cloud Messenger
Mirror Universe Reconnaisance Science Vessel - USS Boar's Head
Mirror Universe Deep Space Science Vessel - ISS Hampshire
Recluse Carrier - USS King Estmere (currently my main ship)
Chel Grett Cruiser - USS Bleak Midwinter
Tuffli freighter - SS Rigs o'Marlow
Class F shuttle - USS Moorside
Aeon timeship - USS Walt Whitman
.. I haven't unpacked the Ambassador yet, I'll have to find one for that. (There are still a few left I can use!)
I started a science officer toon, too, using a similar scheme, this time the works of Sibelius. So far, I've just had the USS Oceanides and USS Lemminkainen on that one.
I knew I'd been in this thread before... Things got worse when I took the plunge and became a lifer... so add
Ambassador Class Support Cruiser - USS Golden Goose
Chimera Heavy Destroyer - USS Perfect Fool (because what other sort of person would buy a life sub:P ? )
Captain's Yacht - USS Cotswold
Tactical Escort Retrofit - USS Somerset
Holst's ballet suite The Perfect Fool has three main sections... so, when the Kumari escorts came out (and, playing an Andorian, I had to, didn't I?), those became:-
Charal Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Earth
Khyzon Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Water
Kumari Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Fire
based on those three sections of the ballet!
To top it all off...
Temporal Science Vessel - USS Indra
If I keep this up much longer, I'm going to have to dig Holst up and make him write some more tunes.
U.S.S. Da Vinci- Miranda class
I chose this name because I wanted a ship name that was fitting for an Engineer character. In the end, I went for Da Vinci, because what name was more fitting than that of one of the wackiest inventors in human history?
U.S.S. Hadrian- Excalibur class
I knew that I wanted to give my Cruiser a classical-sounding name while still carrying on the theme of Enginer-related names. In the end, I settled on the Hadrian, named after the Roman Emperor who had built Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain. I figured that the name was appropriate, as Starfleet is, in many ways, a bulwark against hostile enemy races just as Hadrian's Wall was a barrier against the Picts.
U.S.S. Babylon- Dakota class
Initially, I had named my heavy cruiser the Calatrava, after contemporary bridge engineer Santiago Calatrava. However, in the end, I switched its name to the Babylon for a number of reasons-- firstly, because the name sounds cool, and secondly...well, just look at my user name. It helps that the aft "loop" of the Dakota class kind of reminds me of the White Star.
Chimera Destroyer: (Dbb, Omega torp, cannons/turrets) with CSV-3, TFS-3 and FAW-2
add in the Phaser Lotus, attack patterns, burn a weapon battery, and my alpha becomes a massive blast of AOE that obliterates just about everything around me.
Just like the "Death Blossom" weapon in the 80's movie "The Last Starfighter"
The U.S.S. Magrathea, named after the planet in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
The U.S.S. DeGrasse after Neil DeGrasse
And the U.S.S. Zaftig, ...just google it
Captain: VA, Rachel V. Johnson
U.S.S. Cutty Sark - LRSV-R
named after the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark, I went to London when I was younger and saw it and fell in love.
felt like an awesome name... although real Cutty Sark is a merchant vessel, it felt right.
Captain: LG, Izza "One-Eye" Do'it
I.K.S. Thermopylae - B'Rel BoP-R
named after Thermopylae, which is also a tea clipper, which raced Cutty Sark during the china tea races of the 1870's.
My Main Ship, A Mobius Temporal Destroyer, is the: I.S.S. Patrick Moore I wanted Sir Patrick Moore but it wouldn't fit. It seemed like a fitting tribute to the great man who was lost earlier this year.
My Ferasan's ship is named the I.K.S. Wakati which is Swahili for time. Fitting seeing how it's a timeship.
My main Caitian's ship name is the U.S.S. Pride Rock:P.
My characters have many ships. Just going to name one of each.
Vice Admiral Ycawin "Yun-In" Yunara
U.S.S. Discovery, Bellerophon class Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit.
Yun-In's ships are all named after songs by the awesome Korean singer BoA. "Discovery" is a nice song by her and a nice fit for the LRSV-R, since one of the ship's hull configurations in-game is the Discovery class.
Vice Admiral M'Tai
U.S.S. Princess Luna, Odyssey class, Operations variant.
M'Tai's shps are named after characters from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". Princess Luna is best princess.
Lt. General Aylema "Aylyn" Daryn
I.K.S. Daedalus, B'Rel Bird of Prey Retrofit.
Named after STAG's ultimate weapon in Saints Row: The Third, who also had a ship named Thermopylae...
My characters have many ships. Just going to name one of each.
Vice Admiral Ycawin "Yun-In" Yunara
U.S.S. Discovery, Bellerophon class Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit.
Yun-In's ships are all named after songs by the awesome Korean singer BoA. "Discovery" is a nice song by her and a nice fit for the LRSV-R, since one of the ship's hull configurations in-game is the Discovery class.
By the way, how did you get your ship so shiny? What Discovery element did you use?
I have several characters:
Onile'e Ged, the ENG Trill, is flying ships named after prominent Hawaiian things. Her current one is the U.S.S. Fort Elizabeth, after the Russian star fort on Kauai. It's an Oddy, so something nigh-indestructable is appropriate. Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono.
D'Kaan, the SCI Caitian, is presently flying an Atrox Carrier, the U.S.S. Sekhmet, the Egyptian lioness headed goddess of protection and destruction.
Urruah, the TAC Caitian and D'Kaan's 'little' brother, got a Jem'Hadar bugship. It was so weird, he called it the U.S.S. Jagermonster. Google Girl Genius to see why.
T'Lat, my Vulcan ENG, is something of a cypher; her current ship is the U.S.S. Seleya.
"Susse-thrai" had been the name bestowed upon her, half in anger, half in affection, by her old crew on Bloodwing; the keen-nosed, cranky, wily old she-beast, never less dangerous than when you thought her defenseless, and always growing new teeth far back in her throat to replace the old ones broken in biting out the last foe's heart. Romulans: left one homeworld, lost another, third time's the charm?
My current ship is the Viceroy, an Odyssey Tactical. My naming schema has always been aristocratic father figures. In fact I think I used "Patrician" a few ships back. Mostly because I play as a tank, so when you need a place to hide, run to the castle, run to... the Viceroy.
I've got the Lobi crystals and I'm considering getting the Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier. If I do it will be named the Valravn, after the Danish ravens of the slain. The swept-back lines of Jem'Hadar design look positively avian, and the thought of a massive carrier, gliding silently across what was a battlefield a few moments ago, fighter craft buzzing about as they check the hulks for survivors or valuable salvage...
USS Jeanne d'Arc for obvious reasons
USS BIr-Hakeim for the famous battle in north africa were the french L?gion Etrang?re stop the german asdvance
USS Lafayette after the great french multitask french boy (Diplomat, military, politics, revolutionary, etc...)
USS cameron after the battle between 75 french soldiers against the 3000 mexians cavaleries
Mala (alien "Vembrian")-USS Sentinel A, the next ship after the sentinel in Invasion. If the enterprise went from Sovereign class to Odyssey class its reasonable to assume others did as well.
USS Avalon (dreadnaught)-Avalon is the kind of car I have
ISS Barghest- This is mirror mala's vessel. A Barghest is a hell hound of sorts, and a pretty easy enemy in Turbine games, but I like saying barghest. And it sounds like a viscious name that the terran empire would like
ZINO (orion)-
IKS Vixen- Seduction is Zino's game everything about her and her things draws you in. Vixen is a term long associated with sexy and dangerous women and therefore its perfect for an orion slave raider vessel.
Jal (baj)- USS Susquehanna- I always loved that river's name it just sounds like a song.
USS Courage-Galaxy class: It was a good fed sounding name that I don't remember in any star trek works but I don't know every one. then again there were multiple ships with the same name like defiant.
U.S.S. Invisible - Named for the Federation Battleship Invisible from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, which tragically met it's end trying to kill off a bunch of the incredibly annoying main characters. I salute thee!
I.S.S. Von Neumann - Mirror version of the Invisible. Named for mathematician John von Neumann.
U.S.S. Orizaba - Mountain in Mexico and Shepard's mother's dreadnought in Mass Effect.
U.S.S. Monoceros - Constellation and Ramirez' airship in Skies of Arcadia.
I.K.S. Fisherman's Worf - Obscure reference to Futurama. Named by it's Orion captain, who enjoys mocking her Klingon overlords.
I.K.S. Tsu's Revenge - It's captained by one called Tsu. This is her revenge. Obviously.
My Atrox is the U.S.S. Sanctuary. She is home. Home to me, my crew, and my fighters. It was originally to be a temporary name until I came up with something more clever, but it stuck and I haven't changed it.
My Vesta is the U.S.S. DeBroglie-A, named after a physicist. My original VA ship was the DeBroglie, and when I replaced her it was natural to carry the name forward. My mirror version of my DSSV is the I.S.S. DeBroglie as well, but I've long since decommissioned both of them.
My Dread is the U.S.S. Equalizer, as I envisioned her as a ship that was there to help fill a gap in fed ships with a cruiser that could accompany Defiants on stealth missions, as the KDF can do. I still fly her sometimes and wish I was a tac instead of a sci.
I fly my MVAE as a Hephestus class, so I named her the U.S.S. Pandora. My Ody is the U.S.S. Sojourn, no hidden mysteries there either, and my Defiant is the U.S.S. Incorrigible.
I named my Kumari the I.G.V. Raptor for now, the resemblance is undeniable from afar, and I don't speak Andorian, so my naming options are limited.
I once again match my character. Behold the power of PINK!
Fleet Admiral Space Orphidian Possiblities Wizard
It's an Mass Effect injoke that nobody has ever commented on.
To explain, the Reapers is a race of sentient Starships and the first one we meet has been named Sovereign.
So, seeing as I use a Sovereign class almost exclusively, I named it Reaper to see if anyone would make the connection.
Nobody has so far!
As for my KDF ship, I named it Krogan.
This is because in my bio, my KDF Captain is heavily linked to the Krogan and he's a member of the clan Urdnot, even though he's not a Krogan himself.
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
My main ship is a fed Jem'Hadar dreadnought named the USS Relentless because well it seemed like a good name for a dreadnought.
Yes, it does. Especially in light of your sig - for a moment I thought it was part of your post.
(And put me in mind of the immortal words of Gen. George Patton: "Your job isn't to die for your country. Your job is to make the other poor TRIBBLE die for his.")
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Hey mario n luigi say noa mora pasta for you lol
I knew I'd been in this thread before... Things got worse when I took the plunge and became a lifer... so add
Ambassador Class Support Cruiser - USS Golden Goose
Chimera Heavy Destroyer - USS Perfect Fool (because what other sort of person would buy a life sub:P ? )
Captain's Yacht - USS Cotswold
Tactical Escort Retrofit - USS Somerset
Holst's ballet suite The Perfect Fool has three main sections... so, when the Kumari escorts came out (and, playing an Andorian, I had to, didn't I?), those became:-
Charal Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Earth
Khyzon Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Water
Kumari Class Escort - IGV Spirits of Fire
based on those three sections of the ballet!
To top it all off...
Temporal Science Vessel - USS Indra
If I keep this up much longer, I'm going to have to dig Holst up and make him write some more tunes.
Shuttles tend to be named after scientists, and runabouts named after rivers, therefore, assigned to the Valkyrie are:
USS Museveni - Type Nine shuttle
USS Yamuna - Danube-Class runabout
U.S.S. Da Vinci- Miranda class
I chose this name because I wanted a ship name that was fitting for an Engineer character. In the end, I went for Da Vinci, because what name was more fitting than that of one of the wackiest inventors in human history?
U.S.S. Hadrian- Excalibur class
I knew that I wanted to give my Cruiser a classical-sounding name while still carrying on the theme of Enginer-related names. In the end, I settled on the Hadrian, named after the Roman Emperor who had built Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain. I figured that the name was appropriate, as Starfleet is, in many ways, a bulwark against hostile enemy races just as Hadrian's Wall was a barrier against the Picts.
U.S.S. Babylon- Dakota class
Initially, I had named my heavy cruiser the Calatrava, after contemporary bridge engineer Santiago Calatrava. However, in the end, I switched its name to the Babylon for a number of reasons-- firstly, because the name sounds cool, and secondly...well, just look at my user name.
Chimera Destroyer: (Dbb, Omega torp, cannons/turrets) with CSV-3, TFS-3 and FAW-2
add in the Phaser Lotus, attack patterns, burn a weapon battery, and my alpha becomes a massive blast of AOE that obliterates just about everything around me.
Just like the "Death Blossom" weapon in the 80's movie "The Last Starfighter"
Cheers
The U.S.S. DeGrasse after Neil DeGrasse
And the U.S.S. Zaftig, ...just google it
U.S.S. Cutty Sark - LRSV-R
named after the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark, I went to London when I was younger and saw it and fell in love.
felt like an awesome name... although real Cutty Sark is a merchant vessel, it felt right.
Captain: LG, Izza "One-Eye" Do'it
I.K.S. Thermopylae - B'Rel BoP-R
named after Thermopylae, which is also a tea clipper, which raced Cutty Sark during the china tea races of the 1870's.
RachelJ88
Ship: U.S.S Flying Nimbus
Chose the name due to my Captains name seemed relevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore
He was a legend he even mapped out the moon for the Apollo moon landings
I have a Temporal Science ship which is called: U.S.S. Outtatime
That was the number plate from the Delorean in Back to the Future
My Danube shuttle is called U.S.S. Loki
After the Norse God of Mischief
My Chel Gret Warship is called U.S.S. ODIN
Again Norse mythology after the king of the Norse Gods
The Rest of My ships are called either Thor's Hammer or Thor's Chariot
My main Caitian's ship name is the U.S.S. Pride Rock:P.
Vice Admiral Ycawin "Yun-In" Yunara
U.S.S. Discovery, Bellerophon class Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit.
Yun-In's ships are all named after songs by the awesome Korean singer BoA. "Discovery" is a nice song by her and a nice fit for the LRSV-R, since one of the ship's hull configurations in-game is the Discovery class.
Vice Admiral M'Tai
U.S.S. Princess Luna, Odyssey class, Operations variant.
M'Tai's shps are named after characters from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". Princess Luna is best princess.
Lt. General Aylema "Aylyn" Daryn
I.K.S. Daedalus, B'Rel Bird of Prey Retrofit.
Named after STAG's ultimate weapon in Saints Row: The Third, who also had a ship named Thermopylae...
Got the idea from the movie Iron Sky
"Hang in there Dubya!"
By the way, how did you get your ship so shiny? What Discovery element did you use?
guess why
cause it dont give a #*%^ about who its fightin'
The shiny hull is the Veteran hull material with Quasar pattern. I didn't use any Discovery parts, just mentioned that they are some of the options.
Onile'e Ged, the ENG Trill, is flying ships named after prominent Hawaiian things. Her current one is the U.S.S. Fort Elizabeth, after the Russian star fort on Kauai. It's an Oddy, so something nigh-indestructable is appropriate. Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono.
D'Kaan, the SCI Caitian, is presently flying an Atrox Carrier, the U.S.S. Sekhmet, the Egyptian lioness headed goddess of protection and destruction.
Urruah, the TAC Caitian and D'Kaan's 'little' brother, got a Jem'Hadar bugship. It was so weird, he called it the U.S.S. Jagermonster. Google Girl Genius to see why.
T'Lat, my Vulcan ENG, is something of a cypher; her current ship is the U.S.S. Seleya.
Romulans: left one homeworld, lost another, third time's the charm?
I've got the Lobi crystals and I'm considering getting the Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier. If I do it will be named the Valravn, after the Danish ravens of the slain. The swept-back lines of Jem'Hadar design look positively avian, and the thought of a massive carrier, gliding silently across what was a battlefield a few moments ago, fighter craft buzzing about as they check the hulks for survivors or valuable salvage...
I have name by ships as follow
USS Jeanne d'Arc for obvious reasons
USS BIr-Hakeim for the famous battle in north africa were the french L?gion Etrang?re stop the german asdvance
USS Lafayette after the great french multitask french boy (Diplomat, military, politics, revolutionary, etc...)
USS cameron after the battle between 75 french soldiers against the 3000 mexians cavaleries
USS Avalon (dreadnaught)-Avalon is the kind of car I have
ISS Barghest- This is mirror mala's vessel. A Barghest is a hell hound of sorts, and a pretty easy enemy in Turbine games, but I like saying barghest. And it sounds like a viscious name that the terran empire would like
ZINO (orion)-
IKS Vixen- Seduction is Zino's game everything about her and her things draws you in. Vixen is a term long associated with sexy and dangerous women and therefore its perfect for an orion slave raider vessel.
Jal (baj)- USS Susquehanna- I always loved that river's name it just sounds like a song.
USS Courage-Galaxy class: It was a good fed sounding name that I don't remember in any star trek works but I don't know every one. then again there were multiple ships with the same name like defiant.
U.S.S. Invisible - Named for the Federation Battleship Invisible from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, which tragically met it's end trying to kill off a bunch of the incredibly annoying main characters. I salute thee!
I.S.S. Von Neumann - Mirror version of the Invisible. Named for mathematician John von Neumann.
U.S.S. Orizaba - Mountain in Mexico and Shepard's mother's dreadnought in Mass Effect.
U.S.S. Monoceros - Constellation and Ramirez' airship in Skies of Arcadia.
I.K.S. Fisherman's Worf - Obscure reference to Futurama. Named by it's Orion captain, who enjoys mocking her Klingon overlords.
I.K.S. Tsu's Revenge - It's captained by one called Tsu. This is her revenge. Obviously.
My Vesta is the U.S.S. DeBroglie-A, named after a physicist. My original VA ship was the DeBroglie, and when I replaced her it was natural to carry the name forward. My mirror version of my DSSV is the I.S.S. DeBroglie as well, but I've long since decommissioned both of them.
My Dread is the U.S.S. Equalizer, as I envisioned her as a ship that was there to help fill a gap in fed ships with a cruiser that could accompany Defiants on stealth missions, as the KDF can do. I still fly her sometimes and wish I was a tac instead of a sci.
I fly my MVAE as a Hephestus class, so I named her the U.S.S. Pandora. My Ody is the U.S.S. Sojourn, no hidden mysteries there either, and my Defiant is the U.S.S. Incorrigible.
I named my Kumari the I.G.V. Raptor for now, the resemblance is undeniable from afar, and I don't speak Andorian, so my naming options are limited.
Fleet Admiral Space Orphidian Possiblities Wizard
It's an Mass Effect injoke that nobody has ever commented on.
To explain, the Reapers is a race of sentient Starships and the first one we meet has been named Sovereign.
So, seeing as I use a Sovereign class almost exclusively, I named it Reaper to see if anyone would make the connection.
Nobody has so far!
As for my KDF ship, I named it Krogan.
This is because in my bio, my KDF Captain is heavily linked to the Krogan and he's a member of the clan Urdnot, even though he's not a Krogan himself.
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
As for the name, my hangar is full of Orion Slavers.
I think that speaks for itself.
(And put me in mind of the immortal words of Gen. George Patton: "Your job isn't to die for your country. Your job is to make the other poor TRIBBLE die for his.")