So, What have You named Your Starships?

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Hello everyone. Seen this topic up at Paradox Interactive and thought it'd be nice to know "what wild names have you given the things and what are they like? Did you call something the dreadnought class and it got mauled? did you make something you thought would be duff , named it firefly and it annhilated everything?"

I myself am still on the lookout for good name themes

 

[Artagel]

I designed a medium hull defense based ship (only gave it a single offensive weapon) in order to put it in fleets with more offensively rigged ships. I named it 'Porcupine' . In any case, for some reason, it performed better in battle than the pure offensive ships...

 

[Supreme Shogun]

I haven't been too creative about naming, I used to use names of swords (Sai, Tanto, Katana, No-Dachi, Dai-Katana, etc.. ) and I went to a naming convention like Hvy Fighter M4-0-4 so that I know in the name the attack, defense and move respectively..

from tiny to huge I go, Fighter, Hvy Fighter, Frigate, Battleship, Dreadnought
or if I'm feeling really dominant may give my dreadnought a mythological name or something sometimes..

 

[Pentium]

hm... I haven't renamed a single ship yet, and my desings are always named <hullsize> (<speed>)<const/freighter/fighter><number>, so they're like Med F1, Speed 7 Freighter, Large F2 (F standing for Fighter).

Creative, huh?

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

hm... I haven't renamed a single ship yet, and my desings are always named <hullsize> (<speed>)<const/freighter/fighter><number>, so they're like Med F1, Speed 7 Freighter, Large F2 (F standing for Fighter).

Creative, huh?

LoL- I've seen worse, like some guy who thought a Destroyer to be larger than a Cruiser

My ship class names are still subject to change, for I am still not really fond of what I got this far- I kinda lack a proper theme. Right now Mystic places and creatures are it. What will stay:

- Freighters: Atlantis Class, upgrades are named after Earth's Continents. I thought that for a vessel that travels huge distances "Europe", "Asia", etc would be quite fitting. Atlantis is said to have been the lost continent in the days prior to our history.
- Huge Freighters: Avalon Class (also a mystical lost place of our jolly ole planet and home to mighty spirits- fitting for an armed merchantman with 48 base hitpoints )

- Tiny Hull Scout/Fighter: The Mantis and Manticore Classes (I made two almost identical ship types here, only that the Manticore variant has a Drengin hull covering the Terran canopy. Since I really only made the Drengin one as a test I will most likely give its name to the terran fighter, while keeping the Mantis for the scout. Here I have moved further towards mysticism: Mantis is derived from the ancient Greek word for "prophet". Manticora also derives itself from ancient Greek, borrowing from ancient Persian, where its name translates to "eater of people" a type of Chimera.

- Medium Hull Destroyer: Chimera Class (Lohengram's early destroyer was called Chimera, and I copied his work quite extensively and built up on it and gave it the name "Cordoba" Class. Since I am moving more into mystical creatures and away from battle sites, as initialy intended, I may as well give my improved 'Chimera' back its original name.

-Huge Hull Battlecruiser: Tiamat Class. Tiamat is a primal monster/goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, a destructive dragon-like titan and first having been given life, to bare life to the gods of men (and to be eventualy slain by their hand).

-Huge Hull Battleship/Dreadnought: The Tarasque Class is the mother of all battles- at least in my part of the galaxy "The Tarasque was a fearsome monster tamed in a legendary story about Saint Martha. Legend has it that the creature inhabited the area of Nerluc in Provence, and devastated the landscape far and wide. The tarrasque features in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, in which it is quite possibly the most powerful monster in existence. The tarrasque (usually spelled here with two rs) is a gargantuan creature that beheads its foes with its claws and fangs, resists almost all weapons and magical spells, regenerates, and can only be permanently slain by the granting of a powerful magical wish after overcoming its potent defenses."

more to come...

 

[Pentium]

LoL- I've seen worse, like some guy who thought a Destroyer to be larger than a Cruiser

Well, the destroyer is there to destroy, and the cruiser to cruise. Larger things destroy smaller things. Ergo, Destroyer must be bigger.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Well, the destroyer is there to destroy, and the cruiser to cruise. Larger things destroy smaller things. Ergo, Destroyer must be bigger.

indeed- that must be the logic behind it

 

[Selous]

i tend to get "inspired" by some of my ships for names, otherwise i use boring names like Light Fighter Mk1 ... and when i upgrade the design it will become a Mk2 then 3 and so on .... the inspired names also get this Mk tag on the end

 

[Gunner]

I always name each of my frigate (medium size hull) ships something that starts with 'R'. Things like Retribution, Redemption, Restitution, etc. I started doing it even back for GalcivI I then generally pick a theme to name my bigger ships after for each game. Below the medium hull size I just give each class of ship a unique name but don't rename each individual.

 

[Duelingground]

My ships are named as follows:

Tiny/small hulls are named for insects, dependent on their weapon loadout.

For example:

A beam weapon fighter:

Flea LV-WIII, where the LV=Laser 5, and the WIII=Warp engine 3

The same sized hull, carrying missiles(which I rarely use):

Scorpion SIV-WIII, where SIV is Stinger 4.

Medium hulls are named after birds of prey(Falcon, Eagle, etc.), large hulls are named after vicious mammals(Wolverines, Grizzlies, etc.), and the huge ships are named after rapacious humans(Mongols, Vikings, etc.)

The names are really just cosmetic, letting me identify the hull size at a glance, the alpha-numeric designation lets me know exactly how fast and well armed they are.

Constructors, Troopships and Freighters are called just that, followed by the same letters and numbers as warships, though I rarely arm them. In my current game, I have started notating the number of modules on each hull, by adding a roman numeral directly after the name, so that a Troopship with 4 modules and warp engines would be: TroopshipIV W.

 

[Commodore]

I like to try and incorporate a civilization's backstory in the names of my ships.

For example, the Torians fought a guerilla war to free themselves from the Drengin occupation of their homeworld; so I give their ships names like Insurgent, Freedom Fighter, Liberator, etc., etc.

 

[Vizzini]

I got creative, then after a few games I got smart.

I deleted all my ship designs and now just do "Tiny Gun Defender v1" "Small Missile Defender v2" "Colonizer v1" etc.. there's a generic design for each increase in weapons and/or engine tech and I make sure to "obsolete" any stock or out-of-date design as soon as it crops up. Makes starbase build queues a lot more manageable.

 

[JavalTigar]

I have been using Star Trek names,

voyager - survey scout

akula - missle boat

kobiashi maru - freight

constitusion - medium defender

alaska - battle cruiser

excelsior- battleship

 

[Arkanin]

When I have a massive hegemony over the galaxy and its obvious I need to knock the difficulty slider up, I like pushing my military techs to an extreme and giving my ships mythical-sounding names, since that's about how they are.

 

[Kamilian]

in the first game i played, ships that i had built from my most-powerful-customized class of ships as well as some of the secondary-powerful ships, i named them, based off of ships from Andromeda TV show (cuz i'm a hardcore fanatic of it ):
Andromeda Ascendant
Wrath of Achilles
Balance of Judgment
Resolution of Hector
Crimson Sunrise
Renewed Valor
Twelve Centuries
Million Voices
Pax Magellanic

as for the actual ship-class names:
Stinger
Claw
Claw-Fighter (a smaller version of Claw)
Slicer
Swarmship (for my invasions - the transport)
Basilisk
Talon Cruiser
Talon Fighter

unfortunately the Altarians declared war on me - the third war with them - and my economy was at that point in a slump so i couldn't churn out the best of the best, and i had adapted my ships to their largely-laser-weaponry far too late to save me and, sure enough, my empire withered away. i was down to Altaria (i had taken it at the end of the first war) and then the bastards retook that planet as well and thus finished me. but it was still fun as hell... it was even fun to watch as my Talon Cruisers, the most-advanced other than the newer, anti-laser, ships, were destroyed. the space battles are pretty interesting

 

[Tboy]

For ships, I just put the name of the ship (e.g. Mosquito class) then put for each size:

Tiny - Fighter
Small - Hvy Fighter
Medium - Frigate
Large - Cruiser
Huge - Battleship

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

For ships, I just put the name of the ship (e.g. Mosquito class) then put for each size:

Tiny - Fighter
Small - Hvy Fighter
Medium - Cruiser
Large - Frigate
Huge - Battleship

Cruiser < Frigate

 

[Pentium]

I just got the idea of naming Defenders Spearman, then Swordsman, all the way to Tanks

 

[Gunner]

I just got the idea of naming Defenders Spearman, then Swordsman, all the way to Tanks

Hahaha, thats great!

 

[Tboy]

Originally Posted by Tboy
For ships, I just put the name of the ship (e.g. Mosquito class) then put for each size:

Tiny - Fighter
Small - Hvy Fighter
Medium - Cruiser
Large - Frigate
Huge - Battleship

Cruiser < Frigate?

Drat, cruisers are bigger? I'll switch them around then. Thanks for letting me know!