ship names here

May 19, 2003 2:51 AM from

I like to spend time looking around for cool ship names and I'm looking for more ideas. Here's some of my ships:

Moonraker - One of my favorite names, from a 007 movie.
Executor - Darth Vader's personal Super Star Destroyer.
Hyperion - Huge ship from Babylon 5.
Agamemnon - Also from Babylon 5.
Millenium Falcon - Star Wars (only for a small ship)
Hawk-Bat - Star Wars: Cloak of Deception.
Defiant - Star Trek
Infiltrator - Darth Maul's ship, which has cloaking
Nimitz - US Navy carrier with a cool name

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Reply #1 May 19, 2003 11:15 AM from

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USS Hero ---> USS Heinlein

First Battleship/Dreadnaught etc. --> USS Pournelle

others include...

USS Clarke
USS Asimov
USS Drake
USS Stirling

other SF types as I think of them.

Reply #2 May 19, 2003 3:33 PM from

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First trade ship: the 'grand nagus'
First ship built after inventing Aphrodisiacs: the 'Pon Far' (or how you write it)

Reply #3 May 19, 2003 8:29 PM from

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Equinox - from Star Trek Voyager, looks a lot like the survey ships.

Eclipse - a 17 km long star destroyer from Star Wars.

Chimaera - Grand Admiral Thrawn's ship from Star Wars.

Here's a link to a bunch of other star destroyer names. The writers always seem to come up with pretty good names in the novels.

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/isdlist.html

Reply #4 May 19, 2003 9:36 PM from

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I name all my dreadnaughts after the devil:

SS Lucifer, SS Mephisto, SS Belzebub, SS Satan, etc.

Reply #5 May 19, 2003 9:38 PM from

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USS Mom- My greatest ship the overlord
USS Bitch- My second best another overlord

Reply #6 May 19, 2003 11:04 PM from

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Whatever my most powerful ship at the time is:

The USS Catastrophe

Reply #7 May 19, 2003 11:32 PM from

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Star Wars ship names

Manticore, Basilisk, Hydra - Three of Admiral Daala's Star Destroyers
Knight Hammer - Admiral Daala's custom-built highly stealthed Super Star Destroyer
Lusankya - Super Star Destroyer hidden underneath the Coruscant cityscape as the emperor's personal escape pod
The Maw - the top secret research installation where the death star and other lovely imperial toys were designed
Darkstryder - a corvette operating in the Kathol outback
Bright Hope - a rebel transport used to evacuate Hoth
Imperator, Death's Head, Judicator - various Imperial Star Destroyers
Chimaera - Admiral Thrawn's--and later, Pellaeon's-- flagship
Executor - Darth Vader's flagship, crashed into the ill-fated Death Star II just after the Emperor died

there are many many many more...

Reply #8 May 20, 2003 9:24 AM from

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For those of you who haven't read Iain Banks, I recommend his Culture novels as quite good Sci-Fi.

Link to ship names used in those books: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~mjhuur1/projects/banks/ships.html

Reply #9 May 20, 2003 9:25 AM from

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FYI They are all AI ships that are self-named.

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