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Help naming a CDF NPC ship

adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
edited August 2014 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
So I have a mission which will have a Civilian Defence Force vessel show up and I need a good name for it

Normally with my ships and Fed ships I fall back on Historical names, But with Aliens this doesn't work too well.

I could name it after a know character from the show maybe,
Any ideas?
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Tora Ziyal? IDK that just came to mind.

    You could try googling an alien name generator.
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    voporak wrote: »
    Tora Ziyal? IDK that just came to mind.

    You could try googling an alien name generator.

    Might work, Donjon has a lot of different catagories , might be a suitable one there
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    According to a deleted scene from "Tears of the Prophets", the founder of the Cardassian Union was named Tret Akleen. "Akleen" sounds like it could be a good ship name, though it may be more fitting for a True Way vessel.

    You could alternatively go for names of Cardassian cities or planets, such as "Lakat" or "Chin'toka".
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    psycoticvulcan wrote: »
    According to a deleted scene from "Tears of the Prophets", the founder of the Cardassian Union was named Tret Akleen. "Akleen" sounds like it could be a good ship name, though it may be more fitting for a True Way vessel.

    You could alternatively go for names of Cardassian cities or planets, such as "Lakat" or "Chin'toka".

    Oh I like that, I'll have True way and CDF in the mission so I might use Akleen as the True way vessel
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited August 2014
    When I got my in-game Galor class and was deciding what to name it, I looked at some of Cardassian words we know, like kanar with its long As and Ks, Ns, and Rs, and I kind of extended it and came up with Karanor. You can use that if you like or make some variation on it.
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  • isthisscienceisthisscience Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Good to research some historical figures of various cultures. I named my Romulan missions after early Romulan leaders mentioned on Memory Beta and my current one is Frenchotte after a Romulan composer Dax mentioned. For Klingon ships, I used early Emperor and High Chancellor names from Memory Beta.

    I love Memory Beta. It has so many competing canon, but that means there is a lot of inspiration to draw on if you're ever stuck for something like a name.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    adverbero wrote: »
    So I have a mission which will have a Civilian Defence Force vessel show up and I need a good name for it

    Normally with my ships and Fed ships I fall back on Historical names, But with Aliens this doesn't work too well.

    I could name it after a know character from the show maybe,
    Any ideas?

    I've been known to just use names of existing Cardassian ships. Even with names from Star Trek: Armada and Birth of the Federation, I think you're probably on the safe side of the EULA since almost none of them have any backstory worth mentioning (and you can always say you're just making a shout-out to the games).

    For a specific example that's clearly safe EULA-wise, you could use the Trager, Gul Macet's ship in TNG: "The Wounded". Could be either the original or a new-build successor. I myself made a mirror version of the Koranak for my fic The Wrong Reflection. (Chapter in question isn't up yet.)
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    I've been known to just use names of existing Cardassian ships. Even with names from Star Trek: Armada and Birth of the Federation, I think you're probably on the safe side of the EULA since almost none of them have any backstory worth mentioning (and you can always say you're just making a shout-out to the games).

    For a specific example that's clearly safe EULA-wise, you could use the Trager, Gul Macet's ship in TNG: "The Wounded". Could be either the original or a new-build successor. I myself made a mirror version of the Koranak for my fic The Wrong Reflection. (Chapter in question isn't up yet.)

    Thanks for the useful links
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