My current ship is just the U.S.S. Travis cause there isn't enough room for "William B. Travis". I'm very much proud of my Texas heritage, and being from San Antonio I have a lot of Texas history basically in my backyard. So a lot of my ships are named for famous figures and/or locations in Texas history.
I also have a couple named for U.S. generals, moons and other science-y stuff for the science vessels, and 3 escorts named after 3 of the 5 stealth aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force (Lancer, Nighthawk, and Raptor).
Psychology book terminology.It uses to describe the vibes your body can send to other people near you and effecting them in a positive or negative way.
my first ship in game was uss derilict(because was pretty well un maned when i was giving command.
present ship is uss Hornet, cause painted it green and was a commercial on for green hornet while i was painting it.
My Engineering Officer has all his ships named after Feudal Japanese clans. My Science Officer has her ships named after Greek mythological figures. Both their shuttles, runabouts, and Delta Flyer are named after various cities in Germany.
Long Range Science Vessel - USS Johannes Kepler (scientist who discovered laws of planetary motion)
Assault Cruiser - USS Galahad (one of the knights of the round table)
Star Cruiser - USS Iron Duke (nickname of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Advanced Escort (and all the other escorts prior) - USS Britannia (just a cool, slightly patriotic name, ancient personification of Britain)
All cruiser ships named Bozeman, after Bozeman, Montana and the ship from the TNG classic "Cause & Effect."
U.S.S. Bozeman - Miranda Class light cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman A - Constitution Class cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman B - Excelsior Class heavy cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman C - Excelsior Calss Retrofit
U.S.S. Bozeman D - Galaxy Class Refit
U.S.S. Bozeman DX - Galaxy Class X Refit
U.S.S. Bozeman E - Sovereign Class assault cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman F - Vanguard Class star cruiser
U.S.S Odyssey (A) - Galaxy Class starship, and successor of the one that was destroyed after a suicide run, by a Jem Hadar ship during early Federation-Dominion hostilities.
Ships so far:
U.S.S. Excalibur (Constitution-class starter)multiple references, including the ship Enterprise destroyed while controlled by M5)
U.S.S. Gandalf -- all science ships from T2-T5, each given a suffix letter progression.
U.S.S. Merlin -- science ship, VA-level science refit, Nebula-class
U.S.S. Patton -- WW2 General, Excelsior Class
U.S.S. McKinney -- city I currently live in in Texas, Galaxy-class
U.S.S. Glamdring -- Gandalf's sword in LOTR, Galaxy-X
USS Robert E. Lee - self explanatory in conjuction with my forum avatar
USS Confederation - same
USS Menahem Begin - named after one of the greatest politicians of Israel
USS David Ben Gurion - same
USS Vulture - for my Defiant refit, I needed something aggressive, ideally some bird of prey. I was thinking of Kestrel, Marauder and Eagle, but Vulture did strike me as best.
I'll only name the significant named ships for mine.
VA Althenia D'aran (Eng, Andorian):
USS Weyhtan (Cruiser, named after the Andorian colony)
USS Aurek Besh (Assault Cruiser, it's the written form of Basic in Star Wars)
USS Chesapeake Bay (Excelsior Retrofit, obvious)
VA Ishaka Menno (Tac, Alien/near-human):
USS Altair (Defiant Retrofit, Name of world in ST, and since in the fanfic concept she's from, the Altair was a Defiant)
USS Boyington (Gal-X, From same fanfic concept, same class as in fic. Named after Greg "Pappy" Boyington of the 214th Marine Fighter Division, the 'Black Sheep Squadron'.)
USS Black Sheep (Prometheus, another nod to Boyington and the squadron)
VA K'dara (Tac, Klingon)
USS Tornado (Fleet Escort. I'm something of a weather nerd sometimes, being from the north end of tornado alley)
VA M'iaria (Sci, Caitian)
USS Kitsune (Nova, Japanese for Fox, often considered intelligent in stories)
USS Far Star (Recon Sci. Named for the ORIGINAL reference in Star Wars EU, well before it was a SWG server, it was the captured Corellian Corvette used as an exploration/assault ship in the Darkstryder campaign for the original West End Games d6 Star Wars RPG.)
Some others have been renamed, or haven't been significant enough to be named, those are all the 'important' ones I could think of.
Althenia's Delta Flyer is named the USS Rollerskate only as a joke.
Rereading this thread made me stop at Identiaetlos' post, mentioning Gambier Bay. Makes me want to do a couple ships on a new alt sometime based on Taffy 3 and the Battle of Samar as well. The Johnston and the Samuel B. Roberts and their commanders especially deserve a nod, for bold actions taken by a little group of destroyers, destroyer escorts, and tiny escort carriers, to stop the Japanese main fleet (Including the Yamato, the largest battleship ever fielded, and which had as much gross tonnage by itself as ALL of the ships in Taffy 3 combined...) and save 200,000 US Marines.
U.S.S Patton (A through E)
After Major General George S. Patton (commanding officer of the US 3rd Army during WWII)
U.S.S Diplomacy
my ship for the FDC
U.S.S Roosevelt (runabout)
after my favorite president FDR
U.S.S Husky (type-8 shuttlecraft)
after operation Husky (the invasion of sicily during WWII)
All of my Ships have something to do with the base class of my toons. My actual main toon is a science officer. She flies most of the time science vessels. Her actual ship's name is USS Pulsar. Agressive names won't work for sci vessels, and I do not like famous people names, because a lot of other players alreaady uses them.
My former main was a tac. She commanded a exporation cruiser, with the name USS Unforgiven II (No, it has nothing to do with the Metallica song. There was befor that ship an USS Unforgiven. This one is just the successor.) The name came from the immersion of the toon.
U.S.S. Pegasus (NCC-93485-E): Star Cruiser named for the flying war horse of Perseus from Greek mythology he used to defeat the Kraken, etc. The sixth ship of the name consecutively numbered as I leveled and replaced each previous cruiser with it's successor. And, yes, I am aware that there was a Pegasus from TNG cannon, but that one never actually existed since it was an illegal test of cloaking technology for Starfleet; mine was created as a cover-up.
U.S.S. Perseus (NCC-93486): Retrofit Exploration Cruiser; just seemed fitting.
U.S.S. Prometheus (NCC-93487): Assault Cruiser; again, just fell in line with the Greek heroes theme.
all of my ships names up until VA were named after Canadian Cities/Provinces. My Current Ship, the Normandy is obviously named after the battle, but is also name after the ship in ME1/2
My Retro-Defiant "Britannia" is named after an Anime.
my fed sci in an escort is "B - Deviant" because it sounds funny.
My main, my KDF Eng ships name is "Human Overlord" because
1) many feds pvp poorly and i am sure by season 6 it will be about how to incorporate dailies that have to do with human herding and human zoo's on earth
2) in pvp matches, i am sure the feds like the irony
my tac kdf in a kar'fi carrier named "Useless" because, well, it is.
On my first character, I went with Space Shuttles:
My second time through, I went with Dumas:
The split's in there because I couldn't see Porthos as an appropriate name for an escort. It sounded more appropriate for my Excelsior.
I tend to do themes by character as well. To date:
Movie characters (Pris, Perfect Tommy, and so on)
Sherlock Holmes (Baskerville, Baker Street, and so on)
Scientists (Bohr, Fibonacci, etc)
WW2 aircraft carriers (Oriskany and Valley Forge so far).
My Promethus is named Atlas, who was Prometheus' brother.
My Runabout is named Klamath to keep in line with "river" theme form DS9 while picking a river I have rafted on once upon a time.
Named my GX vav Be' hom, klingononese for daughter of father or daddy's girl. Named her for my 18 month old daughter AND I wanted the klingons to run and scamper when "Daddy's girl" came flying,,,
WHat klingon commander wants to admit to being beaten by a ship with that name?
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I also have a couple named for U.S. generals, moons and other science-y stuff for the science vessels, and 3 escorts named after 3 of the 5 stealth aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force (Lancer, Nighthawk, and Raptor).
Psychology book terminology.It uses to describe the vibes your body can send to other people near you and effecting them in a positive or negative way.
present ship is uss Hornet, cause painted it green and was a commercial on for green hornet while i was painting it.
Assault Cruiser - USS Galahad (one of the knights of the round table)
Star Cruiser - USS Iron Duke (nickname of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Advanced Escort (and all the other escorts prior) - USS Britannia (just a cool, slightly patriotic name, ancient personification of Britain)
(Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves)
U.S.S. Bozeman - Miranda Class light cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman A - Constitution Class cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman B - Excelsior Class heavy cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman C - Excelsior Calss Retrofit
U.S.S. Bozeman D - Galaxy Class Refit
U.S.S. Bozeman DX - Galaxy Class X Refit
U.S.S. Bozeman E - Sovereign Class assault cruiser
U.S.S. Bozeman F - Vanguard Class star cruiser
U.S.S Ffestiniog - Danube Runabout. (Well, I'm Welsh, so.)
Oh and Hello, everyone.
U.S.S. Sublimation
U.S.S. Conduction
U.S.S. Steamboat
U.S.S. Convection
and a few others I forget at the moment..
Delta flyer I named U.S.S. Waveguide to keep the sciency theme.
My new star cruiser I named U.S.S. Promethean just because the look is sleek (Celestial style) so I wanted a sleek sounding name.
th name speaks for itself; it penetrated defenses, goes deep into damaging your armor, and explodes many torpedoes on you.
It's also the name of a Pulp-Action book series from the early 80's.
U.S.S. Excalibur (Constitution-class starter)multiple references, including the ship Enterprise destroyed while controlled by M5)
U.S.S. Gandalf -- all science ships from T2-T5, each given a suffix letter progression.
U.S.S. Merlin -- science ship, VA-level science refit, Nebula-class
U.S.S. Patton -- WW2 General, Excelsior Class
U.S.S. McKinney -- city I currently live in in Texas, Galaxy-class
U.S.S. Glamdring -- Gandalf's sword in LOTR, Galaxy-X
USS Confederation - same
USS Menahem Begin - named after one of the greatest politicians of Israel
USS David Ben Gurion - same
USS Vulture - for my Defiant refit, I needed something aggressive, ideally some bird of prey. I was thinking of Kestrel, Marauder and Eagle, but Vulture did strike me as best.
VA Althenia D'aran (Eng, Andorian):
USS Weyhtan (Cruiser, named after the Andorian colony)
USS Aurek Besh (Assault Cruiser, it's the written form of Basic in Star Wars)
USS Chesapeake Bay (Excelsior Retrofit, obvious)
VA Ishaka Menno (Tac, Alien/near-human):
USS Altair (Defiant Retrofit, Name of world in ST, and since in the fanfic concept she's from, the Altair was a Defiant)
USS Boyington (Gal-X, From same fanfic concept, same class as in fic. Named after Greg "Pappy" Boyington of the 214th Marine Fighter Division, the 'Black Sheep Squadron'.)
USS Black Sheep (Prometheus, another nod to Boyington and the squadron)
VA K'dara (Tac, Klingon)
USS Tornado (Fleet Escort. I'm something of a weather nerd sometimes, being from the north end of tornado alley)
VA M'iaria (Sci, Caitian)
USS Kitsune (Nova, Japanese for Fox, often considered intelligent in stories)
USS Far Star (Recon Sci. Named for the ORIGINAL reference in Star Wars EU, well before it was a SWG server, it was the captured Corellian Corvette used as an exploration/assault ship in the Darkstryder campaign for the original West End Games d6 Star Wars RPG.)
Some others have been renamed, or haven't been significant enough to be named, those are all the 'important' ones I could think of.
Althenia's Delta Flyer is named the USS Rollerskate only as a joke.
Rereading this thread made me stop at Identiaetlos' post, mentioning Gambier Bay. Makes me want to do a couple ships on a new alt sometime based on Taffy 3 and the Battle of Samar as well. The Johnston and the Samuel B. Roberts and their commanders especially deserve a nod, for bold actions taken by a little group of destroyers, destroyer escorts, and tiny escort carriers, to stop the Japanese main fleet (Including the Yamato, the largest battleship ever fielded, and which had as much gross tonnage by itself as ALL of the ships in Taffy 3 combined...) and save 200,000 US Marines.
After Major General George S. Patton (commanding officer of the US 3rd Army during WWII)
U.S.S Diplomacy
my ship for the FDC
U.S.S Roosevelt (runabout)
after my favorite president FDR
U.S.S Husky (type-8 shuttlecraft)
after operation Husky (the invasion of sicily during WWII)
after Johannes Kepler
Cause they're awesome.
My former main was a tac. She commanded a exporation cruiser, with the name USS Unforgiven II (No, it has nothing to do with the Metallica song. There was befor that ship an USS Unforgiven. This one is just the successor.) The name came from the immersion of the toon.
U.S.S. Perseus (NCC-93486): Retrofit Exploration Cruiser; just seemed fitting.
U.S.S. Prometheus (NCC-93487): Assault Cruiser; again, just fell in line with the Greek heroes theme.
My Retro-Defiant "Britannia" is named after an Anime.
My main, my KDF Eng ships name is "Human Overlord" because
1) many feds pvp poorly and i am sure by season 6 it will be about how to incorporate dailies that have to do with human herding and human zoo's on earth
2) in pvp matches, i am sure the feds like the irony
my tac kdf in a kar'fi carrier named "Useless" because, well, it is.
Columbia
Endeavour
Challenger
Discovery
Atlantis
My second time through, I went with Dumas:
Aramis
d'Artagnan
Edmond Dantes
Athos
Porthos
The split's in there because I couldn't see Porthos as an appropriate name for an escort. It sounded more appropriate for my Excelsior.
Eat me and be assimilated.
My sci is in the USS Gealic. Nebula Class. Name was given to me but, I do like the Gealic culture so I kept it.
I tend to do themes by character as well. To date:
Movie characters (Pris, Perfect Tommy, and so on)
Sherlock Holmes (Baskerville, Baker Street, and so on)
Scientists (Bohr, Fibonacci, etc)
WW2 aircraft carriers (Oriskany and Valley Forge so far).
My Runabout is named Klamath to keep in line with "river" theme form DS9 while picking a river I have rafted on once upon a time.
WHat klingon commander wants to admit to being beaten by a ship with that name?
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Whoops, that's my second latest ship. My latest ship is the U.S.S. Vashta Nerada, a nod to the devouring shadows from Doctor Who.