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keeny75
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In game I've seen hundreds if not thosends of ship names and most of them are unique. This made me curious to see if these names were chosen for a reason or just because it sounded cool.
My current ship is called U.S.S. SHIRLY WALLIS.
It's named after my mother inlaw who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Before that it was called the U.S.S. BECKS-VIER
after my favourite beer. Lol
What's yours called and why?
My current ship is called U.S.S. SHIRLY WALLIS.
It's named after my mother inlaw who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Before that it was called the U.S.S. BECKS-VIER
after my favourite beer. Lol
What's yours called and why?
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For one of my characters, my ships are named after bus models and semi truck manufactures. USS Freightliner, USS Blue Bird, USS International, and USS School Bus all speak for themselves on the naming trend. I have more, but I belive these four get the point across.
On another one of mine, I've ran with US state/Battleship names. Most common one I run is the USS Arizona.
I have the occasional ship named after TV shows and characters (USS Airwolf, USS KITT, and USS Wilton Knight to name a few).
I have a T1 ship named after a late US Senatorm but I don't use it much.
There's a few others I have that are mash ups name parts and some KDF ones that are really off the wall (i.e. IKS HoH puch which was my understanding to be Killer Toliet at some point).
USS Cerberus - Prometheus/Cerberus hybrid because the Cerberus class is just ugly. Named for my old rp ship from about 4 or 5 years ago, now the hero ship of my fanseries.
IKS QeylIS BetleH - Mirror Vor'cha because it has a better BOff layout than the Negh'var, I imagine Klingon ships will have been called the Sword of Kahless throughout history.
Takeshi Yamato (Main): USS Raging Tempest (reflects his fighting style)
Nanoha Takamachi: USS Wolfram (this character is based on the protagonist of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, and all names related to this character [BOffs and ships] come from the same franchise)
Shion Uzuki: USS Elsa (Xenosaga Naming Theme here)
Leonhardt "Leo" Raglan: USS Oathsworn (Record of Agarest War Generation 1 Naming Theme here)
Zak'Jul: IKS D'ul (minor Gundam SEED [translated into Klingon] Naming Theme here)
I have other characters, but these are some of my main ones.
EDIT 10/19/2012: Added my newest Level 50 to the list.
Its in my sig.
The Shinano was a Yamato-class hull that was converted into an armored carrier during world war 2.
The ship received orders to sail to another base to finish the conversion of the ship. The captain, seeing how his crew was untrained, the ship interior (flood control bulkheads and such) had not been completely finished and fire control systems not installed... plus he had no air crew or craft complement...AND he had been denied air cover from land bases and also denied a destroyer escort....
pleaded with the high command to delay the sailing orders until the ship could at least be able to defend itself.
High command denied the request.
Lo, the ship sailed with a less than minimal escort, met a US submarine just a dozen or so miles from the base he had sailed out of... and was sunk.
... and this is what happens in STO every time there is a patch that affects carriers. Cryptic ignores the carrier captain feedback and test data, make idiotic and uncalled for changes that TRIBBLE the ship and pet AI to the point where the carrier is nothing more than a fat science ship with moronic pets... and then Cryptic applies a band-aid fix so things are not broken to the point where the ship and pets are useless... but previously existing functionality was lost.... then sits back and ignores the fact that they broke things this badly and dont bother to come back and fix their errors.
Because I'm boring.
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After I picked up one of the Mirror Universe cruisers, I renamed my engineer to be based off a mirror universe villain from one of my Foundry missions. His ship is the I.S.S. Phaeton, named after the villain from ExoSquad.
My Tac is named Arya Stark, so it seems fitting she should captain the U.S.S. Winterfell.
Because I'm proud of where I live.
I do have a science alt who's ships are all named after United States Department of Energy National Laboratories.
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Hypatia was a female Greek scholar, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher at the Library of Alexandria. She was murdered by a christian mob because she publicly refused to be baptized (so, of course, she was accused of witchcraft).
Reminds me (and hopefully everyone) of how harmful any religion is to civilization.
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USS Demon's Run, because I'm not boring :P:D
Also for the link to a favourite TV show that I may have mentioned once or twice
The reason is because its crewed by the other end of the spectrum of Starfleet officers. The TRIBBLE-ups, malcontents, and others who's only option is to serve on the Jude, or get tossed out of Starfleet.
Not murderers or any sort of hardened criminals, but those officers who have just pissed off the wrong people in the course of their career. Most range from mildly eccentric to barking mad, including their captain.
Radiant (Patrol Escort) - Continuing a line of shining/shimmering style names.
Fortitude (Odyssey Star Cruiser) - Sort of continues a line of names involving forts.
Hephaestus (Exploration Cruiser Retrofit) - For a Vulcan engineer. Get it? Vulcan engineer.
Opal Sea (Odyssey Star Cruiser) - Just sounded good for a Betazoid doctor.
Firebrand (Odyssey Star Cruiser) - Continuing a line of patriotic/revolutionary names, for a Bajoran.
Song of Horror (Kar'Fi Battle Carrier) - Continues a line of "Song of..." ships, including Song of Ire, Song of Malice, etc. For an Orion scientist.
Phantom Flare (Qin Heavy Raptor) - A stealthy blaster.
Tankertoy (Bortas Heavy Battle Cruiser) - A haven for a joined Trill engineer.
For my Sci toon I picked a name that fit for a sci ship U.S.S. Ptolemaios named after
Claudius Ptolemy(Klaudios Ptolemaios) a greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer. also happens to be the name of the carrier ship in 00 gundam
Eng toon U.S.S Ra Cailum ( all his ships are from EFF side)
Klingon toon I.K.S. Musai (all his are from the Zeon, neo zeon side )
so i tend to do a theme per toon .
Zarate for my main shuttle because it is the name of my city and because it also goes with the naming rules of the ARA (small combat capable ships are named after cities with big river ports).
The other ships have names according the the naming rules of the ARA, fitting for their tier, and my Oddie is called "25 de Mayo", as the ARA carrier that was decomissioned in 2000.
Exeider - Eng - U.S.S. Ralph Reuss III - named after my dad, who died like 2 months before the game came out.
Traxx - Sci - U.S.S. Interpid-X - Loved the intrepid refit, got a good strong set of consoles, and since the Galaxy - X is named so because of it's special ability, I decided to name mine with an X for the same reason
Damar - Tac - U.S.S. WhiteStar - I have a cardy captain, I named it the White Star because if you take a MVAM Escort and use the right settings on the nacelles/pylons and hull, you can make it look like the WhiteStar from Babylon 5.
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My old main used USS Excalibur on a Sov cruiser. I would put it on a Constitution refit but... When I was a kid growing up I had a TOS technical manual. In it there was a long list of NCC numbers and names. Another Constitution class was USS Excalibur NCC 1705. I thought the name was cool and fromt then on always imagined myself as the Captain of that ship while Kirk was flying around in his.
My Current main uses the USS Iapetus. Why? Because I think its an awesome sounding name. I first heard it in the boardgame Solar Quest. It's one of the moons of Saturn.
My Klingon uses the yaybom. Way back when I was on a MUSH called ATS. In it I always flew around in a ship called the yaybom. I've never been able to seperate that ship from tha tKlingon. So when I remade that Klingon here I had to bring back that ship.
One of my Tellarite captains uses USS Challenger. I origionally created that character to join a fleet that was going to try and RP being all on the same ship the US challenger. Unfortuantly that experiment failed almost immediately but I liked the ship design and name so I kept it.
On my Nauscian named Klaxem I have the IKS Torgoh. It's basically just named after that bumbling guy you see on MST3k. It amuses me.
My caitian has an Atrox Carrier named the Tigers Claw. It is named after carrier in the game Wing Commander. Its kinda amusing concidering the Caitians are basically Kilrathi
My other characters dont really have main ships yet. Alot of times Ill just hit random on a new ship and just keep what sounds acceptable.
Master using it and you can have this!
Be black on the right side. Add properly colored Cheron to the game today!
My other Fed (the one I built to be me in real life, but transported/converted into STO universe) has my name "Adrianne" and her ship is called the U.S.S. Brinstar (named after Metroid NES and SNES, which are still some of my fav games of all time).
My KDF dragoness/alien Shekklah Y'Tierahkk's ship is called the I.K.S. Y'Drevana (lots of kk's and h's in her name due to my nod to one of my fav old SNES games Drakkhen which was awesome, weird, and made me laugh).
My future Ferengi, Dar Sluga (a STO recreation of my Priority One character), will have a D'Kora named "Undina" (based on mythical undine, not ST race, and chosen to enlighten the concept of ship on water - ship floating in space - by likening it to the water spirit).
Don't expect anyone to remember any of this, but figured why not. It's a fun thread. I also enjoy reading other people's ship name choices and seeing if I can spot them in game.
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My Fed Engineer's cruisers ended up sharing names with Shuttles (Endeavour, Challenger, Discovery, etc), mostly because both have a tendency to be named for famous vessels of exploration.
My Fed Tac has spent most of his career in the Akira-class (now refitted to Armitage specs) USS Washington. I got it from a semi-canon list of Akira names on Memory Beta. As the dedication plaque reads: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."
With my Fed Sci, I tried to follow the class schemes of all her ships. Her Nova-class mini-Sov was USS Solstice, after the example of the Equinox; her Horizon-class was USS Moraine (significant boundaries like "Equator" or "Shoreline"; a moraine is the berm of earth pushed up at the front of a glacier). For an Intrepid ala Voyager, USS Dolphin (from another Memory Beta list, if I recall, almost certainly named for the research sub). And finally, the Luna-class USS Europa should need no explanation.
My Klingon Tac's ships were... colorful. His first command was the Quch'Hoh ("Joyful Murder" or something along those lines); when it was lost in a raid, he was given the Qul mI'wI ("Fire Dancer"). Then came "Blood Drinker"/"Drinker of Blood". He currently commands the Qin-class IKS Koloth, named (of course) for the legendary captain.
Finally, my Gorn Eng named his Freighter "S'yahazah", the Egg Bringer.
I chose it because I tried to remember the most obscure Christian/Hebrew thing my mind could think of.
Gal-X, Defiant and Excelsior are Nonsuch, Hotspur and Sutherland respectively. Yes, I was re-reading Hornblower when I named them.
Intrepid variant is named Pathfinder because...well, that's her job. My engineering alt's cruiser is named Bastion for much the same reason.
Prometheus is named Temeraire after the French warship.
Atrox...toyed with Ark Federal as a nod to HMS Ark Royal, but she's currently Concordia, having been Tiger's Claw and Sivar. The kitty carrier associations were just too tempting...
Klingon side:
A Hegh'ta I've had for absolutely ages is named Qutluch after the assassin's dagger because that's pretty much how I fly her - decloak, knife you in the back and disappear.
The Negh'var is the Bat'leth (couldn't make Bet'leth qeyLis fit, even though I wanted to name it for the apocryphal B12-B class). The Vo'Quv is named Mek'leth to keep the weapon theme.
Vorch'a retrofit: K'mpec after the former Chancellor.
That just about covers it...I've got far too many ships :eek:
Science: USS Unicorn - Mostly because I thought it would be funny. When I named it, I was doing mythical creatures, and I couldn't think of any that were really appropriate so I said "TRIBBLE it" and went with the silly one.
Engineering: USS Lionheart - This is my Caitian character. I think it speaks for itself. :P
Tactical: USS Evening Sprite - This one is kind of a joke, based on the character's name. The Romulan name "Jhu" means "angel"... "sprite" came up on a synonym search for "angel"... and I tossed "evening" in there because "dark" sounded too generic and USS Sprite sounds like the soda.
My Federation Tactical's ship is a Prometheus-Class called the U.S.S. Slipstream, because she really gives the appearance of fast.
My Federation Science character's ship is DSSV-class ship called the U.S.S. Frontier, named after my DTNE Entry, but the Intrepid-class he's flying now is called the U.S.S. Quantum Star.
My Klingon Tactical's ship is Qin-Class Raptor called the I.K.S. Ki'TaQ. It supposed to be named after a general that raised my Klingon Tactical, and is the main character of my First Foundry Mission.
My Klingon Science Captain's ship is a B'Rel-Refit called the Duj'Vaq, which I thought it fitting as it means Aggressive ship in Klingon. My Hegh'ta-BoP that came before basically meant Red Ponytail, which is a trait of my Trill Captain.
And finally, my Klingon Engineer's ship is an Negh'var-class, called the I.K.S. Hurgh'Hov. While to some it may appear to be an attempt to bypass the name filters, it is actual Klingon for Dark Star (Hurgh=Dark / Black Hov = Star). And yes, I got GM's approval just in case. :P