The pronunciation of ship names.

Well, the Advent capital ships are actually real English words... and I believe there was a post a while back that the TEC capital ships are real Russian words, so we should be able to agree on pronunciation for these units.

Now, for the Vasari capital ships, as well as many of the units for all factions, that gets a little more tricky.  The Vasari shipe names are entirely made up, and our only real angle to work on is the in-game Vasari accent, which tends to accentuate the the S and A sounds.

As far as Javelis goes, I think the root word is "Javalin" (which would make sense for a missile cruiser) and it should be pronounced as such, but that's really just an educated guess.

Jarrasul

The double R tells us that the a's are likely short, but that still leaves the U and the J ambiguous, as well as giving us little direction as to where to put emphasis.  However the Vasari affinity for "S" sounds, the last syllable is the most likely candidate for emphasis.  However, we don't know the sound the U makes.  It might be like "pull" or "pool".  Similarly, the first syllable might be "jar", "yar", or even "zshar", since J is a very ambiguous letter in the English language.

I'd go with "Jar - ra - sool" or "Jar - ra - sull" personally, with emphasis on the last syllable.

Vulkoras

The first syllable has the same problem as the Jarrasul's last syllable.  It may be "vool" or "vull", and there is really no idication either way.  Thematically it seems similar to a Vulture, picking on weak defenseless planets, so I'd be inclined to pronounce it that way.  The second syllable could also be pronounced two different ways, either "core" or "coor".  The last syllable is pretty obvious given the Vasari accent: "ass".

I'd go with "Vull - core - ass", with emphasis on the first and last syllables.

Skirantra

I'd say this is probably the most definitive of the Vasari capital ships.  Putting emphasis on the S at the start, I can only come up with one convincing way to pronounce it:

"Skier - an - tra", with an obligatory long S and emphasis on the first syllable as part of the Vasari accent.

Kortul

The first syllable is pretty unambiguous:  "core".  The second syllable could be pronounced "tool", "tull", or "tyule".  I'd personally go with "tool" based on the way it's spelt.

"Core - tool", probalby with an emphasis on the second syllable.

Antorak

I think this is probably as close to unambiguous as we can get:

"An - tore - ack", though where the emphasis goes is anyone's guess.

Well, for starters, progenitor is an English word. (pro-JEN-e-ter)

I'm with Darvin...  Pretty much that...

Seriously this is really the first time I even though of this questions, I usually refer to them from their roles

I know. I really never thought about it till I heard someone say some wierd ship name and was like "wooh, people are callin these things that?" bout 5-6 of us on teamspeak had at least 4 different ways of saying a single ship type...

(Its so bad now that i cant even pronunce things the way I thought they were without secondgussing myself in the middle of it, and end up sounding like an idiot.)

Yeah I remember that post, though I don't think he told us how to pronounce them (if anyone speaks Russian please confirm it for us). The TEC frigates though seem to be from all kinds of languages though, but I was sure it was Javelis.