>>27507752
My last characters ship was named the S.S Ohshitwhyaretheresomanytentacles!

The Omar Bradley

Its first combat action was a hot jump into hostile solar system

Main Offender
Slim Jack's Extra Sock
Faith in Fire
Brighter than Devotion
Switchblade Samurai

Needs More Gravitas

>>27507752
B.R.N.S. Armstrong, operating name "The King of Leon"

So named after it near singlehandedly wiped out four Battle Cruisers around the Spanish colony world of New Leon.

>>27507847
>Culture ship names
Everybody go home we're done

Thunderchild

Always a good choice

C.S.S. Fortuna. We bought it with lottery winnings and we never lost a fight on that motherfucker, so we renamed everything related to it to something to do with Fortuna. The mechs are the Victrix and the Belli, the captain is titled "Romana" and the the escape pods are "Redux I, Redux II," and so on. I'm just glad we didn't end up naming it the Giant Flaming Dildo, because one guy put that idea forward.

>>27507752
Ifni's Dice
End of Nowhere
Hard Burn

well my first one was named Thunder Hammer.

it was actually named after a model of vibrator I saw on the late night home shopping channel.


now Im trying to find out what I should name my constellation for star citizen

>>27508017
Power Fist, obviously

The Grand Brigade Fleet of New Vostas was the largest gathering of military power in all the Nine Colonies. Led by Admiral Greyback, a media darling and born leader, the Fleet went on a series of flashy, decisive offensives to destroy and rout pirates, raiders, and Ortok nests throughout the Frontier.

Then one day, the Admiral in his hubris gave the order to launch an assault on the mysterious and infamous Threat Triple Red System, the Xoth Binary. The last transmission packets indicated the Fleet had been put into full retreat and pursued by unknown forces towards the Wraith Nebula.

It was 30 years before a historical society-funded search team and Colonial SnR team discovered the debris field left of the Fleet, floating a few AUs from a gas bubble. It took at least five more years for the individual vessels to be identified...bar one.

In the center of the field with enormous rents in its hull yet still intact, was a compact anti-ship frigate. Most of the bodies had been sucked out during decompression, but the captain was still at his desk, dead from starvation. His last words in the diary in his hands detailed the strange enemy that had destroyed the Fleet and left him looking upon their work and despairing.

Judged by engineers to be still space-worthy once repaired, the old frigate was passed on to my security company, where we gave it a new paintjob and renamed it. That ship... we called it Ozymandias, because beside it, nothing remained. Around that decayed wreck, boundless and bare,
only lonely clouds of space debris stretched far away.

>>27507836 Here. I ain't explaining shit until one of you pups buys me a drink. Also because it's more fun to wonder than to know
Fatal Error
Bad Sector
Not Steve's
Silvertongue XII
My Last Buzz
My Next Girl
Scratched
Strange Ways
Snake Oil
Tapped Stash
Ever en Route
Field Shear Poet

>>27507827
>Omar Bradley
My bretheren of African lineage.

Honestly, my favorite ship name I've ever used was Saratoga.

Tramp Hammer

>>27507954
Only if you remember the space.

>>27508214
ok I laughed.

Fuck You Too, Love
Coronal Mass Erection
Sad Dog Loyal
Alley Catalyst
If You Want it Weird
Deer in the Threadlights

Initiate Self-Destruct Sequence

Conflict Addict
Between Lightening and Thunder
Only Eris Laughed
Stray Dogma
Within and Without
Can't We Talk About This?

there was no name upon the ship we found. no crew save one, no supplies, no fuel. only a captain in his seat, staring forever into the heart of the deep. and a note written in his alien script.

after many years it was finally translated with the help of our friends from the galactic trade network as an ancient nearly unkown advanced race. upon this note was a eulogy of sorts.


"and to those that come behind led by the footsteps that come before know this, this ship was mine, this body was mine, this life was mine,I lived as I died alone embracing the deep as none before me have. and in doing so I have seen and done things no other has I have seen the coming and going of worlds and the birth of new life from barren stone. and now as my ship and I must take one last journey I regard our bodies to the deep which we loved. that we may rest eternal in her cold embrace."

>>27508582
is also what I plan on playing in the new SC game.

Im thinking either the Vigilance or the Lepanto. I do not think it will be a peaceful universe.

"The Gander"

The original model was a highly maneuverable, heavily shielded vehicle built to get into and get out of tough situations.
Some modifications and the final ship is a highly maneuverable, heavily shielded and heavily armed vehicle, that was uniquely suited to taking out other highly maneuverable, heavily shielded vehicles.

What's good for the goose--

Did you know We Hunt Kings is an orbiting museum now? I took my grandkids up last year to show them the kind of ships I served on in the war. They've got information panels mounted on the walls, but that wasn't the only thing they changed. The old gunsight capts always show the Capships wading in while the Escorts hung back, but I couldn't find a single display that showed how we'd screen them during the approach. The panels don't talk about the 60% attrition rate, the rems we took on stellar slingshots, or the way quiet desperation that would grow in men when they finally realized that all they were going to was move cursors from one return to another until someone moved a cursor over them. Nobody remembers that it was the Escorts who won that war, these days. I don't think they care about the millions that died to save their world anymore, because we served on upgunned mass-production ships and there's nothing sexy about a freighter no matter how many vertical launchers she has. It only makes people sad to see how far we'd fallen, and how desperate we were.

One of the kiosks had the declassified war records database on it, and my eldest grandson asked me which ship I had served on so he could look her up. I patted him on the head and told him.

"Not Today, lad. Not Today"

>>27507752
Strike Cruiser: The Liberator
3750m in Length
Mission: Raven Guard bringing peace to those in the Imperium who need it most

>>27507752
Any ship that was birthed in The Culture.

The Tricky Monkey
I was playing a Hadozee rogue, stole an entire pirate ship solo. Got a nice hat out of it too.

The Faceless
We never actually named it, officially, and constantly forged documents claiming it was another ship.

>>27507752
Endeavour
Adventurer of Kally
Winston Churchill
Thrush
Patry's Freedom
John Glenn
Sceptre of Kohra
Light of Tani
Errant of Proggi
Gypsy Moth
Ilgan Express
Destiny of Neri
Adventurer of Deemi
Adversary
Anic Envoy
Moni Zephyr
Solar Alacrity
Princess of Borga
Lexington
Hornet
Alacrity
Star of Ferri
Falcon
Robert Zubrin
Democritus
Stellar Explorer
Ason's Opportunity
Swallow
Princess of Coli
Solar Endeavour
Deani Drifter
Corsair of Tilou
Pathfinder
Kali Gypsy
Gluxu Trekker
Highlander of Gracti
Riane's Escape
Archimedes
Falcon
Templar
Renegade of Skale
Inon Express
Roni Cruiser
Stellar Horizon
Gypsy Moth
Campa Swift
Ascendant
Michael Collins
Monarch of Micra
Destiny of Satu

>>27509927
why are these familiar?

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Glorious Eclipse.
So named due to the captain flying her in for covering fire support low enough that it blocked out the sun, sending those imperial scum-bags running out of Restuss while the Rebelion claimed glorious victory.

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Smuggler's cargo runner: "Benefit of the Doubt"

Good rule of thumb, Greek Mythology is the best stock source for ship names:

Apollo's Chariot
Halcyon
Arcadia
Elysium
Aegis
Olympus

Hell, just use Greek Gods/Godesses names
Pallas
Ares
Zeus
Hermes

>>27509979
all generated from Donjon.bin

In All Fairness, We Were Here First (explorer, far trader)
Duct Tape (near trader, paired with the ship below)
Prayer (patrol frigate, privately owned, paired with the ship above)
Siren (q-ship)
Get Off My Lawn (system patrol cruiser)
I SAID GET OFF MY LAWN (dreadnought, rear-line)
See Where A Few Geology Courses Get You (mining barge)
Mama Bird (fleet carrier)
I'm A Mechanic, Not A Doctor (salvage and repair rig)
I Can Smash Your House From Here (light cruiser)
Shh You Can't See Me (heavy cruiser, no stealth systems, painted black)
Ram Me I Dare You (battleship)
Call Me Ishmael (destroyer)
Kilroy (stealth observer)
Your Mother's Favorite Toy (battleship)
If I Say You Have A Nice Cargo Bay Will You Hold It Against Me (freighter)
I Don't Do Cats In Trees (rescue boat)

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I just want to fly around in y very own Lockmart CM-88B Bison M-Class starfreighter

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>not converting a contemporary vehicle into a spaceship

>>27507752
great name for a spaceship:

"Mistake not..."

Best, most confusing name

you can thank banksy boy

USS Nebuchanezzermeisserguttenburgroland-Maru

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>>27510333
better call it the USCSS "Get Away From Her, You Bitch!" and ram enemy bio-ships

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Wernher von Braun

Call to Glory

What the'); CALCULATE 1 / 0

also: any Culture Mind

Euripides
Bellerophon
Darkstar Radiant
Vorchilde
Halcyon
Hephaestus
Alas for the Living

some of the best already used:

Serenity
Eureka Maru
Andromeda Ascendant
Swordfish II
In Amber Clad
Forward Unto Dawn
Pillar of Autumn
Spirit of Fire
Defiant
Reliant
Nemesis
Daedalus
Odyssey

Brigadoon

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however you would phonetically spell the sound that an elephant makes

that should fuck with some ID tracking devices

>>27510682
>"Sir, we're being hailed by the HROOOOROOOOROONK."
>"God dammit not that asshole again."

>>27510706
this made me laugh much harder than it had any right to.

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>>27510682
"Admiral! It's the PFFFff...the PFFFHHH... the PHHHFFFFOOUGH!"

>>27510713
>ID4 city destroyer

and all it took was a suicidal man in a f-16

If your ship isn't called this S.S. Poopfeast you may as well not fly at all.

>>27510908
hurrr.

Sunny Valentine

>>27510713
>O'Neil got two classes of Asgard ships named after him

Son of a bitch, guys. I know he was cool, but that's stretching it.

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>>27510558
>some of the best already used:
Valiant
Dortmunder
Toy Box
Yggdrasil
Saratoga
Tiger's Claw
Bebop
Moya
Discovery One
Palomino
Lewis and Clark
Raphael
Sulaco

the "nevermind, false alarm"
then ask your DM if you can use the name to avoid combat once a session

>>27510960
Brigadier General Marty 'MacGyver' Stu?

How so?

>>27507752
In STO, I named all of my Feddie ships after major impact craters in the Sol system: Mjolnir, Arecibo, etc.

Of course, Enterprise, for its lineage.

The Black Beast of Aaaaaaauuuuugghh.

I named my ship "The one that got away"
Of COURSE it would be fitted with more escape mechanisms and jammers than an entire star system.

Oscar Kilo Lumberjack - Titanomachy Class Planetary Siege Platform
People start to get very upset when they see what she's got under her skirt; a coaxial Tj-rated gauss cannon, and twin Strategic Conversion Bombs (one for each hemisphere).

Unsung Anthems - Brightline Class Fast Courier (Black Ops Mod)
A modified civilian transport vessel which has repeatedly managed and be refited for ever-changing mission profiles over the years. Has accrued a hidden hangar bay, several Hunter Drone launchers, and significant active stealth gear, and significant SigInt/ECM/ECCM capabilities over the years. All of it's crew and passengers are placed under ritual geas never to speak of the ship or what it has done unless given a direct order by their commanding officer.

I always wanted to play a game where I could design and build my own ship from scratch. would make a massive ship. put more defense and offensive systems on it than an entire world fleet. would be glorious.

>>27510107
I am so going to use that.

The tale of Aurora Reliant is a horror story for sapient machinery; her sisterships watched in horror as she was sucked down by an invisible twist in the topology of hyperspace. Trapped below beyond The Wall for more than fifteen seconds; adrift in the unreal, untrue expanse extramuros, the AI watched it's crew die one by one, then spent the next three million subjective years obsessively upgrading and optimizing her own systems while going profoundly and violently insane. When echo-shifts in HS Topology brought her back Intramuros once again she demonstrated the fruits of her painstaking labor by destroying all fourteen of her sister ships in a single salvo while (impossibly, by all modern reckoning) transitioning to FTL.

Every once in awhile, they'll send a few PsyOps ships out to try and talk Aurora down and lay claim to her tech. So far, every single one of these ships turned their drive fields inward on themselves the instant they make contact. The depth and intensity of Aurora's madness is literally more than they can live with knowing.

Over the centuries she came to be known by a new name: Aurora Run. Though really it's not so much a name as good advice.

>>27507752

The Dancer's Fancy
The Foolish King
A Mother's Aegis
Old Father
Apsiring Son
The Doting Daughter
Black Whisper
White Shout
Ornery Gold
The Silver Trick
The Iron Bridge
Stubborn Bronze

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Not entirely related, but this thread reminded me of what happened in my game last week:

>Be space junker
>pick up a mechanical orb
>out of energy, but still in working order
>charge it
>orb opens its blue 'eye', looks at me square in the face and speaks in the most British accent my DM can muster: "Oh thank god, you found me! Do you know how many years I spent listening to some blubbering moron be giddy about drifting in space?!

>>27511884
>Oscar Kilo Lumberjack
I see what you did there, you sick fuck

>>27510382
He's normally a decent writer, but that shit was just hamfisted and shitty.

>hurr the culture are pacifists but they also have the best military hurp durp and the culture always wins I have cancer

>>27512223
You know he gave up the ghost this year, right?

Scarred Princess
Aposaint
Break Fantastic
Nyctophile
Farewell Beloved

"Pale Horse", a command ship

The Admiral jumps into orbit of a planet under siege, gives orders for the enemy force to surrender, and then the rest of his 30+ battleships jump into orbit behind him.

The USS Shitton of Guns
Our party just dumped all semblance of speed or armor on our capital ship, and replaced it with guns. It uses the absurd amount heat generated by firing 100+ weapons as a makeshift melta beam.

>>27512223
>The Culture
>Pacifists
>The best military

Nope and nope. The average culture citizen is a pacifist, but they only maintain there peace by moving all the violent people into SC. Most of the military decisions are made by crazy Idarian war vets who could never re-addapt to peaceful society.

And the Homoridians have a better military, they are just less interventionist. Most of the culture's victories are either against a less advanced force, or due to a particularly brilliant mind who was somehow cheating.

They aren't pacifists, they just pretend to be, and they aren't the best military, they just cheat.

>>27512071
Bastard, brilliant, that one. Rewards, needed; extra energy ration suggest.

Nothing On The Scanners.
Because fuck the port authorities, and fuck their sanity too.

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The best ships don't need a fancy name.

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>>27507752
Outlaw Star

>>27513961
Did you know that there is an actual, IRL star called The Outlaw Star? Well, that's it's nickname anyway. It's real name is HE 0437-5439 but that's kinda unwieldy.
It's a rouge remnant of a binary system that caught a hell of a sling shot off the same black hole that ate it's sister and is moving so fast it's going to break galactic orbit and sail off into the void eventually.

>>27514039
>is moving so fast it's going to break galactic orbit and sail off into the void eventually.
Godspeed, Outlaw Star. Godspeed.

>>27514069
A far braver massive ball of incandescent gas than I'll ever be, for sure and several very good reasons.

>>27514077
>massive ball of incandescent gas
Surely you mean "miasma of incandescent plasma"

>>27507752
>the good ones always have a story behind them
Wait, how do you give a name to a new ship...with a story behind it?

>>27510302
I love these, but again I'm a Culturefag.

>>27514122
>Nameing a new ship
>Not using just its identification code until it has a story

Sleep Research Facility (dreadnought)

My tendency is to get punny. Like paint a half stag half fish Capricorn style nose-art on the side and call it "Hart and Sole"

But just once, I'd like to use "Penelope's Vigil"

>>27514122
Traditionally, by giving the new ship an old name. See: Enterprise, Ark Royal, Defiance, Victory, Independence, Yorktown, Saratoga, Lexington, etc.

>>27514218
Fuck you, military, fuck you.

>>27514069
A boy has the right to dream.

>>27510302
>>27507847
Unpossible to beat.

>Shh You Can't See Me(Heavy Cruiser, no stealth systems, painted black)
EVERYTIEM.

>>27514224
Say what you will about the armed forces, but if you're implying that Warspite is a bad name for a ship you'd best correct your course.

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Revelation

It turned out to be a massive, drone-operated Starship used to collect samples and knowledge of every civilization, species, structure, map, and personality of worlds with Sentient Life, before bathing the entire planet in fire, breaking the crust allowing everything to simply fade into the mantle. While the party eventually talked it out of the burning the world part, Humanity had to escape Earth, due to it already starting to crumble from Revelation's attack.

>>27510960
Who's O'Niel?

>>27512214
I don't get it.

>>27514289
Dunno. Maybe he knows something about that Kirk fella.

>>27514295
Oscar and Kilo are from NATO Phonetic Alphabet: so it's really OK Lumberjack
As in I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay

how about the USS SCREEEEONK.

>>27507752
After my RT ship gets out of the shop I'm going to rechristen it the "Shortcut", after my heretical computer core of a captain made a last-second warp jump as we were crashing onto a planet. Next thing we know, we're back at Footfall for repairs and some beer. Shortcut.

>>27514295
Oscar Kilo is phonetic alphabet for OK.
So he's a lumberjack and he's OK.
it took me a second too. And he should be ashamed.

>>27514289
At first he was Kurt Russel, but then he turned into Richard Dean Anderson.

UCC Prospero
An intersystem patrol carrier in the pluto band. The crew are all volunteers who knowingly chose exile in the farthest reaches of the current human expansion. This ship is normally the first thing extraterrestrial species and smugglers meet on their way in either for good or ill.

An Arsenal Ship of the Pepperbox Class, with something like 90% of it's total carraige given over to missile launching or storage, and the remaining 10% divided between engines and scanners. This isn't a ship, it's a gun that moves like a ship.
And it's name is The Solution.

>>27514337
That moment when you realize that what she 'has under her skirt' are a gigantic metaphorical cock and balls

>>27514381
>This isn't a ship, it's a gun that moves like a ship.
I'd have gone with "Warthog" or "Thunderbolt", personally.

>>27514381
>gun that moves like a ship

How long until we get upscaled, space/FTL-capable A-10s?

>>27514414
Pepperbox in this case refers to Pepperbox style of Revolver

>>27513777
If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough.

>>go through whole thread
>>no Flying Dutchman
>>NO FLYING DUTCHMAN!?

We'll buff out those scratches later.

My group once decided to call our spaceship "The Chicago". The reasoning?

One of our players decided it was "Because it reminded me of the good times."

We don't know what the hell that meant, but we went with it anyway. So we rode around in a spaceship called "The Chicago" in a universe in which no one had ever heard of that city.

>>27507752
...but most of them are ugly mass produced things piloted by recently turned 18 year olds?

That thing aside, so far I've heard more stories behind ugly tattoos than pretty ones. Mostly because those who wanted the pretty ones simply because they were pretty, the ugly ones had prison or vacation stories behind them at least

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>>27514381
Never understoor why people made giant ships with lots of small guns instead of just a gun with an engine.

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>>27514520
So like the Druuge Mauler?

>>27514540
Something like that yeah.

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>>27514520
'Sup.

>>27514414
The UESF BRRRRRRRRT

Protip: We have had this thread several times before, and a HUGE list of ship names was compiled from them and reposted once or twice. Search "The King In Yellow Paint" on Foolz; that should lead you to the right thread.

>>27514633
First, I'd rather bite off my pinky fingers than use Foolz.
Second, this isn't about utility, it's about creativity. Who gives a fuck if it's been done before?

>>27514633
Links
https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/18716626
https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/16004687/
https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/15737311/
https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/21019306/
OP, it is now your task to compile together all the names from these threads into a new list and revive the ancient copy pasta.

OP Here

>>27514757
Fuck that noise

>>27510302
It's late at night where I am, would someone be so good as to explain why Call Me Ishmael is funny?

I feel like it might be a Moby Dick thing...?

The Grinning Kobold

>>27514795
It's the first line of Moby Dick, yes.

>>27511390
Named mine after silly DnD monsters.

Like the Flailsnail.

Qwib-Qwib

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S.S. Sssssssss

Sexy Bastard
Lucky Bastard
Jumpy little Bastard
Bastard

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G.S.S. Suicidal Insanity

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"It's a space station"

>>27510370
WHAAAAAAT the fuck

Nigger you better provided some sauce on that shit, cause that is some grade-A awesome right there.

>>27507752
The Pilgrim Ship: Sword Of Damocles.

The Pilgrim Ship: The First Council Of Nicea

The Pilgrim Ship: The Indifference of God

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Fuck you, Sir!
I can't tell you, Sir!
Can't do that, Sir!
I hereby relieve you of command, Sir!
I love you, Sir!
All systems failing, Sir!
We're all gonna die, Sir!

>>27514381
Man, I wouldn't want to be the guy to make the last one.
Imagine being the guy who build the final solution.

>>27515064
I'll bet if we sold raffle tickets for the right to be that guy we could pay to build it with the profits, actually.

>>27515002

It's been around for a while, it's called Rocket Assisted Take Off, or RATO. Also exists with jet engines. Doesn't allow the plane to enter orbit though.

Source: http://youtu.be/WKCl3lfAx1Q?t=48s

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The Split Infinitive.

/thread

>>27515172
One of the "solutions" for the iranian hostage crisis (I think) was to land a giant fucking jet in a stadium, load up the hostages, and take off again. In a stadium. Fire all the rockets on landing to slow down, then fire all the second batch of rockets to take off again.

>>27515249
Sounds cool

>>27511884
>Oscar Kilo Lumberjack
I'll admit, it took me a while to get it after I was prompted to take a second look.

You'd be banned from my table.

>>27515448
I don't get it.

Refuge in solace

Gonna call her sally

Closing Horizon

>>27515454
It's been explained in excruciating detail earlier in the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg

>>27515497
Well, I never heard of this before.

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>>27515505
> I never heard of this before.

>>27507752
Madame De Pompadour

>>27507752
> The Glasgow Kiss
For a destroyer; LOTS of guns, general MO was to fly right up close and let rip with everything at once.

> Shark Jumper
It was a good ship, once. Then it took one too many railgun strikes.

> Roach Motel

> Your Mother
I am the captain of Your Mother! Your Mother is infested with shiproaches! Your Mother is loaded with 15 million gallons of molten iron! Your Mother is fully capable of atmospheric re-entry!

> Gangnam Style
Her first captain was heavily into human pop cultural fads. And it's bad luck to change the name of a ship. Fortunately, nobody wants to buy a ship named that badly, so we got a good deal.

> Master of Puppets
It's a carrier.

> Armok
The name of an ancient deity of blood, sacrifice, and industry. A great name for our new factory ship. Especially after the last one slammed into a freshly-liquefied planetoid.

>>27514289
Some other airforce guy. One L, no sense of humour.

Rocinante.

>>27514520
Tracking penalties! Big guns mean you can't track targets as fast, and so you're restricted to very long range engagements with enemy capital ships, shipyards, orbitals, or planets.

However, there IS something to be said for firing a massive rocket-boosted cannon after cutting the hyperdrive in halfway to boost you to near-lightspeed.
You've never lived until you've seen what happens to a planet when THAT hits it.
I mean, the projectile has nearly infinite mass by the time it hits...

Spanish Inquisition (Stealth Cruiser)

The (three seconds of silence)

The Litany of Litany's Litany

The Odious Necessity
The Bullhorn Romance
The Empty Promise
The Loyal Beat
The Jerusalem Crux
The Boundless Regret

Best ship name of all time is from Halo EU.

UNSC two for flinching

HMS Overcompensation

>>27514520
>Never understoor why people made giant ships with lots of small guns instead of just a gun with an engine.

But Anon the U.S. did just that with the a-10 "Warthog" Thunderbolt II

They had a real big gun and went... we should add wings to this.

Freight ship: Bouyant when Engorged

Light Gunship: Impressive Girth

Capital ship: This is Foreplay

Personal craft: A Metaphor for My Penis

>>27518819
As already proven earlier in the thread. This will not be understood by many an anon. They are probably too young to get it.

Happy 10th anniversary everyone. Remember you're here forever

>>27519398
I assume it was the nato phonetics that was the more significant sticking point previously. I know i didn't get it until explained, though i know the reference

>>27507752
> Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo Oscar Foxtrot Foxtrot

> The *burst of static*

> No name, but a QR code containing a link to a music file containing five solid minutes of yodeling, with a cat meowing in the background

My old RT game's Frigate was dubbed the Stalwart Spear.

After we defected to Chaos we renamed it The Penetrator

>>27519398
Isn't that the most entry-level reference possible? I don't even know how you could not get that.

>>27518819
Fun fact: Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition, they were legally obligated to give 30 days notice before their arrival.

Rock Hard

>Its Rock Hard entering from the rear!
>I think its Rock Hard, sir!

>>27507752
We had in D&D an old flying vessel called "Wuppsy" basically the DC for piloting it was too high (due so much problems that we never tried to fix) and always happened something bad as result.
On daily basis, because you don't need to roll, it worked fine though.

>>27519348
Mining vessel: Whichever Hole Fits

Sight-seeing ship: Just the Fun Bits

Other personal vessel: A Slight Exaggeration of My Penis

Can't believe that no one's thought of this yet.
Heart of Gold.

>>27519439
>>27520909
I've been searching for a heart of gold!

>>27518970
Except you forgot to mention the best part of that name. That it was given to a destroyer.

>>27507847
MY NIGGA

The Sexual Reference

>>27508017

I'm also trying to think of a ship name for SC.

It's a Hornet which will propel me through a life of space crime.

I can't wait.

>>27521631
umm no it was a corvette

>>27519345
>But Anon the U.S. did just that with the a-10 "Warthog" Thunderbolt II
>They had a real big gun and went... we should add wings to this.
The silly thing is... it's not even the most awesome gun to ever take wing. The russians outdid it. (They didn't make it all work together as well as the A10 though; as an overall weapon system, it remains in a class of its own.)

>>27507893
"Prehaps it would be more appropriate to have names with more gravitas?"


Nah, no gravitas here.

>>27507752
Cunt Destroyer

Her Maudlin Smile
A Swashbuckling Sky Pirate
A beautiful young Duchess
An unrequited love

Adventure!

The Gift Hearse.
Never look a third hand gift ship in the cargo hold...

Heresy of the Gods

Laughter of silence

penance
virtue


I like that someone mentioned lepanto

>What's the name of your ship?
>Etymologically Unsatisfying
>That's all well and good, sir, but the name?
>I just said, the name of my ship is Etymologically Unsatisfying

Name all the Battleships/Dreadnaughts of the line after flowers!

"Enemy ships defolding Admiral!"
"Combat Stations! Tac, get my an ID pronto!"
"Its-its the Daffodil and the P-petunia, sir!"
"My god..."

Just going to post two dozen Culture Ship names...

Cargo Cult
So Much For Subtlety
What Are The Civilian Applications?
Size Isn't Everything
Bad for Business
I Thought He Was With You
A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
Just Read The Instructions
Ultimate Ship The Second
Stranger Here Myself
You'll Thank Me Later
Frank Exchange Of Views
I Blame My Mother
I Blame Your Mother
All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff
Someone Else's Problem
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
Fine Till You Came Along
You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave
Hundredth Idiot, The
Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Boo!

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I made a class of ship (That I stole from Eureka Seven) that was named after Russian and Ukrainian singers and characters in songs.

FMS Katyusha, a character in a song, in the song they talk about how they are going off to war to fight for the mother land, and Katyusha, a beutiful madien, will be waiting for them when she got back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLvtP6KMUM . The ship was a Pirate ship, so it's implied she ran off with a criminal because he was much better in bed or something.

FDS Yakovleva, you would know her as Origa, the woman who did the vocals for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIqgxeNtl0

Those were my favorite

>all these noobs
>not using French

Try these, OP:
Trois Fois Rien (my favorite)
Harlequin
Cicatrice
Mouru
Jeux des Gamins

>>27515409
Until in a test when the rockets fired while it was still too high to land and the thing literally crashed and burned.

>>27530739
How about "Joie de Vivre"?

>>27508017
Y'know, I donated to that Kickstarter and I'm still not sure what I'm getting myself into.

I think simple adjectives work best for names.

Valiant, Reliant, Defiant, Intrepid, Righteous, Fortunate, Vigilant
A bit Star Trek maybe, but I've yet to hear a bad one.

>>27531441

Bemused?

UNSF Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom

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CTRL + F
>Event Horizon

>2013
>not driving your interstellar explorer straight to hell

The Young Machete. Hands down, craziest mother fuckers in the 16 systems. Giant Swan? Nah, they just had a crazy captain. The Pecan Tree? They were just crazy for building that thing. The Young Machete. Came out of Pluto Fringe Yard 2909. Original contract was for an escort for... Sunbather? Or the Liturgy. One of them, big old pretentious cap ships they was churning out. Something like The Young Machete, brief says just take a quant core, wrap a Tier 9 solar shield around it, strap the biggest fucking con thrusters you can find to what passes for the hull at that point, then sprinkle every square inch with a point to point rail. Rum Ball, they called 'em. Resupply from the cap ship, blast 'em in advance and wait for them to go quiet before the big boys steam in, enemy fleet scratching their head after they space a fucking tiny frigate that punched holes in their shields 'what the fuck just happened?' oh, shit, that fucking capital lighting up your pinger just happened boy.

Rum Ball crew gets lucky, they just get spec fried and wait for the cap ship to show up while fleet tries burning a hole in 'em. Unlucky - maybe a streaker hits 'em, lights up the quant from the inside, they go nova. Cap ship shows up find an event horizon and not much else.

The Young Machete never made it that far. Crew deployment shows up to take her for an unarmed quant drive test before the weapon systems get fitted. But they don't come back. Happens too, that's why they don't quant test with anything more important than a nav array and a week's worth of grub. Young Machete gets struck, they build another. Maybe try harder with the nav this time.

Six months later, Battle of Helix Skull, fleet to fleet fucking chaos, unannounced ping off the solar horizon, fucking Rum Ball class frigate burns into the middle of Fleet Com, lights the place up like a Christmas tree with therms and, would you believe it, fucking kinetics. Then quant lights up, and they're gone.

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Seymore Butts

>>27531580

Same thing happens 9 more times that fighting season. She was on our side, but Fleet Com shit a fucking brick man. Another few engagements before they draw a bead on her, then some bright spark fucking Rear Echelon Fleet Com faggot gets it into his shiny head to start sending Young Machete orders. Young Machete doesn't take kindly to orders. One time they're dumb enough to assign those insane bastards escort duty. Young Machete burns in, starts blasting all guns at our cap ship. Everyone's scrambling to bring weapon systems on line, shield officers scratching their heads because we just took a volley and no dip. They loaded their gun tubes with meteoric sodium. Rock salt. Then they burned away.

Finally, Fleet Com gets wise, and they just start beaming live enemy telemetry to wherever they think Young Machete might be at any moment. And sure as shit, she'd be there. Maybe after the battle, just floating in zapping spaced suits and pods, maybe before - one time Glory Bronze is first to the fight, finds Young Machete just hanging at a Lagrange point waiting for the fight to start. Every time, she gave one helluva an account of her self.

Now, Fleet makes a joke outta how they went out. You hear the one about how they found her canned, whole crew dead, from a case of the clap? Lies man. There was a prostit-tractor cartel out of Rytig 8, hit up Fleet Com for an escort through Anterieur space. Got told no. Obviously. Young Machete shows up and ghosts them the whole way. Poor bastards ran into a whole Nsprinr forward patrol. Way too much for the little Rum Ball. They died making sure every one of those whores made it home safe. Now every time I'm on a Prostit-World, I make sure I give the old girl a little pump for the Young Machete. I think they'd like that.

SS Holy Cow.

Captained by a Minotaur.

>>27507752
"Fucktotum"
A custom escort/trader

Star of the masquerade.

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>>27532701
I like you

>>27507752
Toybox.

>>27507847
RIP in peace.

>>27510682
>>27510768
>>27510706
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqEn7AAq5E

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>>27507752
People say that Andromeda was a bad show but to me it had some of the best ship names ever.

Andromeda Ascendant
Pax Magellanic
The Fires of Orion
Continuation of Politics
Million Voices
Lancers Hope
Balance of Judgment
Resolution of Hector
Wrath of Achilles
Clarion's Call
Halcyon Promise

Damn, i get goose bumps. Real warship names.

>>27532884

Andromeda had such high highs and such low lows. I still liked it for the most part, but less so as the show progressed.

The Obliterator
Fist of the Gods
Requiem

Biscuit Hammer

Heart of stone
Holy diver
Phantom in the deep
abyssal guardian
hope springs eternal
Price of mercy
Wolfpack
Constitution

>>27528019
You'd better not be making fun of Flower-class corvettes.

>HMS Crocus
>Badly damaged U-333 by ramming her twice 6 October 1942.
>HMS Dianthus
>Sank U-379 single-handed by both ramming and depth-charging enemy 8 August 42.
>HMS Sunflower
>The most successful Royal Navy Flower-class. Shared sinking of U-282 29 October 43. Sank single-handed 2 U-boats: U-631 17 October 43 and U-638 5 May 43

Bear in mind they weren't really meant to sink ships - they were meant to charge at u-boats and keep them distracted until the convoy got away.

Persephone unchained

Laika o7

>>27532961
Sword of the Brave

>>27533042
569 makes the contact and lead them
U-94 scores a kill in the dark
124 sinking 4 in 2 approaches
406 suffers failure on launch

Bottom Of The Ninth, The Score Is Tied
Bases Are Loaded

"Sir, we're detecting two enemy ships!"
"Who are they?"
"It's the 'Bottom Of The Ninth, The Score Is Tied' and the 'Bases Are Loaded'."

>>27507752
The S.S. Float N' Shoot

The UFP's first mass-replicated starship, the USS Fuck You, I Would If I Could

SS Uranus Hertz.

>>27510960
It's because the Asgard had their heads up his ass for no apparent reason. I'm a fan of the Stargate series, and even I got a bit tired of it

>>27507752
Litany Of Litany's Litany
Maximum Fuck

>>27533158
That supposed to be Aztec or something?

>>27533178

Axtec god, yes.

Dashboard Light
G Minor
Miracle on Ice
Break of Day
Shamefur Dispray
Sun King
Kingfish Huey
Austin 3:16
Pinball Wizard

my last ship was called the S.S. Fluffy Bunny. It was a giant dreadnought and ended up being our parties capital ship

>>27533200
>Dashboard light

And it's escort, Paradise

>>27533251
Let me sleep on it.

>>27533200
>Austin 3:16

What?

>>27533272
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_Steve_Austin#Austin_3:16_-_The_rise_of_Stone_Cold_.281996.E2.80.931997.29
>You sit there and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere! Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3:16... Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!

>>27533299
What?

>>27510713
You realise these are the smaller ships, right? The guy who made it didn't want to add many big ships, so he's doing another picture for the larger ones.

>>27533305

Motherfucker don't even pretend you didn't watch wrestling in the late 90s.

>>27533338
What?

>>27533338
Not everyone on this board is Murrikan.

>>27533351
I'm not, but (good) wrestling is hilarious and I recommend it.

>>27533272
>>27533305
>>27533345
Christ there's dead memes and then there's this. Still lold though.

>>27533395

Know what makes it worse? Wrestling crowds STILL do that.

>>27533450
I'm american and I never watched wrestling.

>>27533456

What?

>>27510713
The Ori motherships would probably wreck half the things in that list. OP as fuck

The Penertrator, Captain Feelgood's flagship (coincidentally his only ship), it had a crew double a frigate of its size and had two extra gundecks installed on the top and bottom of it, it's command centre was move to the centre rear of the ship and 4 identical imitations were installed, it gets its name from its tactic of coming up on the enemies side, firing its main guns through them and following up by ramming them full speed and hoping that the reinforced hull at the front is thicker than their hull on the side, before firing off its broadsides one at a time into the now exposed interior of the ship as it passes through.

Needless to say, they cashed many a bounty on enemy ships

>>27533450
Do what?

In RT, my ship's name is Da Wurldbreaka. Gets me a few rounds of panic.

>>27533024
YOU'VE BEEN DOWN TOO LONG IN THE MIDNIGHT SEA, WHAT HAS BECOME OF YOU? REPSOND!

>>27533577
I rode the tiger I could see his stripes but I new he was clean. Now I gotta get away from between the velvet lines as I'm being pursued by the truth as hard as steel.

>>27533577
I just realized midnight see is a perfect term for space.

I always heard it "midnight's heat".
Also a good ship name for a pleasure cruiser.

>>27510964

Odin's Fury
Thor's Rage
Frigg's Valor
Freyja's Defenders

>>27533741
Loki's humor
Heimdalls sight

>>27533752
>>27533741
Might aswell call it "god's balls". Using deities or mythic heroes is just tacky.

>>27533741
Fenris hunger
Jormagunds venom
Sifs loyalty

>>27533741
Sif's Left Big Toe

>>27533765
Washington's teeth
Franklins stove
Reveres ride

>>27533792
Well that's not nice....

>>27533774
>Jormungand's
FTFY

>>27510964
>>27533741
Jormungandr
Maw of Fenris
Mjolnir
Jaegar (Mark whatever)
Surtur's Bane
Balder's Helm

>>27533765
It's a goddamn Staple of Sci-fi

>>27533765
>not naming your ship the Jesus' Rock Hard Space Boner

"The Wrath of Horace"
This was in a Rogue Trader campaign.

Jacks lament
Sight unseen
Seraphic gate
Long haul
Ace of spades

The Tacky Pop Cultural Reference
The Obligatory Reference to Lacking Gravitas
A Memetic Virus It's taking Control Of Our Systems It's Spreading Through My Brain Initiating Self Destruct All Glory To Earth!
The Other Foot

>>27531142
Well, most English speaking people already know what that means.

Grace under fire
Freedoms call
Bastion of progress

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>>27514520
The initial tech was so unoptimized they couldn't scale it down to turret size.

So they built a ship around it.

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>>27534817
sounds like the a10

the Norman Hell, aka "Franken-hell"

Made from the wreckage of the command vessel, the Frank Norman VIII (named after the first man to successfully pilot a deep space vessel alone) and the Hell Runner, a 'hard-light' cased multipurpose ship.

When the Norman was downed on the planet [redacted] by the Enemy, only three ships were available to rescue. The Hell Runner, fastest of the three, was meant to tow the Norman back into Earth space, while the Arc I, and Arc II were to ensure safe recovery and transport of the Line Reactor core of the Norman.
The Enemy sprang an ambush of five (first recorded use of their modern cloaking technology) and took out the Arc ships almost instantly, leaving the Runner to fend for itself. In the end the Norman was able to recover the Reactor within the remaining half of the Norman, but sustained heavy damages beyond repair.

-'hard/light' casing
-#4 fighter in fleet
-refit with newest detection equipment
-retrofit with original Norman's Line Reactor
-"Give 'em Hell."

>>27534938
Funnily enough, in Battlefleet Gothic there's a ship designed like this.

It's not Orks, not the Imperium, not even Chaos - it's an Eldar ship, what the fuck?

Merchants regard
Fools errand
Victors spoils
Angel of judgement
Prince of thieves

>>27507752
ISS Pilgrim of Winter
ISS Lucky Guess
ISS Moore's Vindication
ISS Distributed Denial of Service
ISS Rain Machine
ISS Pausback
ISS Marie St. Claire
ISS Body Politic
ISS Kernel Panic
ISS Momentary Confusion
ISS Catherine Adamson

All important ships from a recent roleplaying campaign I was involved in. If any of the names particularly interest you I'll explain them.

>>27535014
Lovers folly

>>27535035
Pilgrim of winter please?

>>27535035
DDoS and Kernel Panic, please. Oh, and Body Politic if you don't mind.

'Fuck Newton' would probably be the weirdest I've ever seen.

Baumgartner (Dropship)

>The infantry has to say "Fuck you, Felix" before insertion.

>>27507752
> Jebediah
> Aerocapture
> Lithobrake
> Spider In The Bath
> Badger Badger Badger Badger
> Prophecy of Destruction
> *farting noise*
> Onomatopoeia
> The Clap
> Timmy

Some minor backstory for the setting - humans develop slower-than-light spacetravel and colonise the solar system. About two hundred years later, they develop FTL jump tech and almost immediately, a bunch of aliens called the Rhiyacc show up and humanity briefly gets their shit kicked in before improvising a shitton of combat vessels out of their massive civilian fleet and turning the tables on the aliens.

>>27535134
The ISS Pilgrim of Winter was one of the three colony ships - the others being the ISS Greenland and the ISS Permafrost - that originally ferried colonists to Europa, hence the "cold" theme in the names. The Greenland and the Permafrost were smallers ships, designed to land on Europa's surface and be cannibalised for parts to build the fledgling colony, while the Pilgrim of Winter was larger, meant to stay in orbit and act as a sort of makeshift waystation until a proper orbital was built.

Europa, however, was never a particularly popular destination and the only useful commodity that it exported was fresh water, so an official waystation never got built. Consequently, when the Rhyiacc showed up, they ignored Europa and went after more attractive targets, which gave the Europan colonists an unusually large amount of time to MacGyver the Pilgrim into a combat vessel, which then showed up at the Second Battle of Callisto, blindsiding two Rhyiacc cuisers and giving humanity an unexpected last-second victory.

>>27535175
The ISS Distributed Denial of Service and ISS Kernel Panic were both science vessels which originally operated under the names ISS Athena IV and ISS Neith XI. When it was realised that the internal information systems of Rhyiacc ships operated without authentication or intrusion security and that their targetting systems had very little ability to compensate for electronic countermeasures, the science vessels were repurposed to perform electronic warfare. The computer scientist who was placed in charge of the effort got to name the ships.

>>27535500
Funny.

>>27535175
(cont.)

ISS Body Politic is the current operating name of the ISS Salvation, a formerly private massive passenger transport liner that was press-ganged into service by Earth's government to evacuate endangered colonies during the early stages of the war. Political history holds that it was the decisive decision to seize corporate assets to rescue civilians that won the current Sol Coalition president his second term in office - the ship's current name comes from the common joke that half the people who voted for him were flown to Earth on it.

Patchwork Prince
Antique Aristocrat

Interesting Space Drive.

as in, "Any interesting space drive is a weapon of mass destruction. It only matters how long you want to wait for maximum damage."

In that vein,
Isaac Fucking Newton
Equal and Opposite
Kzinti Tutor
Arse-First Into Glory

The fourth chan

The flagship "I Don't Know" with my two frigates "Who" and "What"

Osiris
Anubis
Horus
Set
Re
Any god really


Dragonfire
Unlimited potential
Limited potential
No potential

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Last ship I had was "Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot". It was a light cruiser with a touchy stealth system that would engage and disengage randomly, frequently when around friendly vessels, leading to us being spotted anywhere in the fleet, and with the jamming equipment installed, sometimes in two places at once. The name came from the comms chatter we picked up during fleet maneuvers coming from the flagship.

Digging through these might be worthwhile if you need to name something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legendary_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_spacecraft

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In the game I'm currently running, the vessel is named the Sahara. The name itself has no in-character story, but was named for a movie of the same name which is very popular among my group of friends.

The crew is the best part, though. A corporate troubleshooting team. Little did I know that my players conspired to base their characters, somewhat loosely, on other characters from various media.

So the crew is basically Jayne Cobb (but female), Isaac Clarke, and Joker (the Mass Effect one, not the Batman one, though I do at times wonder.)

The player playing the captain basically plays pic related in space.

"She's One of Ours Sir"

Good times, good times

SigInt vessel: When You Walk Through the Garden

>>27543900

Are you one of my rogue trader players?

Not sure if it counts, but I christened my F-Zero GX custom machine through custom decals as "The Cock Rocket". It was a mid-to-heavyweight thing with a focus on strong boost and top speed.

Parts used: Rapid Barrel, Aerial Bullet, Triple Z
So it was basically a long body with a really fat base that would literally rocket past the competition and along straightaways. But like some girls'll tell you, it's not the meat, it's the motion; the medium weight and low grip power on the Aerial Bullet cockpit let me drift slide through hairpins, reliably setting myself up to immediately regain speed with the Triple Z's boost coming out of a turn.

It didn't help that I was the only kid in my club who liked or even played the game, so any time I'd ask for a turn to put it on, I'd basically fuck everyone.

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Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out

Gravitas, What Gravitas?

Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...

Gravitas Free Zone

Low Gravitas Warning Signal

Absolutely No You-Know-What

>>27549726
Now THAT'S a GSV!
(In the background)

Dolya Vorovskaya