how do YOU think of names for ships?

[ReaperFett]

People names Im okay with, but struggle with craft. How'd you do it?

[Darth Viscera]

With a cup of coffee, a thesaurus, and a hell of a lot of patience :)

[Alpha]

some my head pops up with (Dark Star, and others like that.), others are from Magic, Star Wars/Trek, or different CCGs (The Rhystic, Vintara, ect.)

[Darth Viscera]

ancient greek/roman names are good. *thinks of one off the top of his head*

Vintices Vin-ti-ceez. Of course, I have no idea what a Vintices is, and it's probably not even a word in Greek or Latin. Still, it sounds mildly coolesque and even a bit sophisticated, so it would fit the bill as the name of a picket ship or corvette.

[Darth Vader]

Ships that I've named before

Layla - Because I love the song

Silent Princess - a reference to Daleethria

Parragas - obscure reference from a DBZ movie. Saiyajin warrior who was the father of Brolly.

Oorru'Gurre'Gurre' - wanted something primal-sounding, so I sounded it out until I liked it.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Easy. I name ships after my cats or Rally Drivers.

[Taylor Millard]

The Superior just sounded Imperial (and I think I saw it on TIE Fighter).

The Flying Dutchman is named after an old Philadelphia Eagles' Player. What his real name is I'll never know.

I got a few more ships to name. NO clue what.

[Nupraptor]

Depends. Most of the names are referances to things. The Snark being a referance to Lewis Carroll and the Strogg being a referance to Quake 2. Also, when stumped for coming up with a name for a SSD once, I looked at my collection of DVDs and decided that Phantasm would make for a good ship name.

[SAURRON]

I have to agree on the coffee and thesaurus thing.

Sanguine: red like blood...

the ship is black however but thats ok.

[Jeseth Cloak]

Well, I also sit down with a thesaurus and figure things out. Ships I've named:

Dark Falcon

Alcamedies

Grease Lightening...


I'm joking about that last one. ;)

[Darth Vader]

I'm adopting a new ship-naming policy though. Now I'm naming them after girls I've had my way with, beginning with the SSD Your Mom

[Jeseth Cloak]

:lol Yeah, nice. :rolleyes

[Saarrreeaa Meorrrei]

Oorru'Gurre'Gurre' - wanted something primal-sounding, so I sounded it out until I liked it How *do* you pronounce that, Charley?

[Darth Vader]

OO-roo gur-EH gur-EH

but roll the r's

[Lilaena De'Ville]

That's hard to pronounce. Why don't you rename it "The Litter Box"?

[Saharia]

hmm..with nice little pee pee from the cute little kitties....
how sweet :)

[Varlon Konrad]

As of late I've used the names of some of my favourite BattleMechs, songs, shows, etc. It usually works for me, and if I can't think of anything, I just randomly come up with words *shrug* o.o

[ReaperFett]

Naming after cats: Good if they have good names, bad if it means the SSD is called
Tiddles :)


Naming after DVDs: Here is my DVD list. Any sound good? And yes, some are obviously not good, but Im just copy/pasting from another board :)


The Phantom Menace
Payback
El Mariachi
Desperado
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Reservoir Dogs
Boondock Saints
The Way of the Gun
From Dusk til Dawn
Snatch
Army of Darkness
Lock, Stock & two Smoking Barrels
A Better Tommorow
Mystery Men
Die Hard
Idle Hands
Evil Dead 2
Blade
(John Carpenter's) Vampires
Con Air
Ronin
Gladiator
Mission: Impossible 2
The Mask
Last Man Standing
The Corruptor
Rush Hour
Se7en
Tomb Raider
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Armageddon
Terminator 2: Judgement Day





Was i REALLY clever, Id try to do like Talon Karrde, and have some clever wordplay(Wild Karrde -> Wild Card, Uwana Buyer -> You wanna buy her?, Starry Ice -> Starry Eyes, Amanda Fallow -> A man to follow, Etherway -> Other way)

[Nupraptor]

DVDs I have near me (barely a fraction of the collection :p):

Slayers NEXT boxed set
Requiem for a Dream
Pi
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Nightmare Before Christmas
Chasing Amy
Dogma
What Dreams May Come
Interview with the Vampire
Gladiator
Army of Darkness
Macross Plus vol 1 & 2
Perfect Blue
The Matrix
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Ghost in the Shell
Nightmare on Elm Street boxed set
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Phantasm
Stephen King's The Stand
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Genesis :01 & :02
Scream Trilogy boxed set

[Darth Vader]

DVDs I have:

Outlaw Star volume 1
Outlaw Star volume 2
Outlaw Star volume 3
Dragonball Z - The Worlds Strongest
Gladiator
Tombstone
Tomorrow Never Dies
Goldeneye
Starship Troopers
The Three Stooges
Swordfish
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Deliverance

[Severen Morkonis]

my DVD set:

Shrek
Pitch Black
American Pie
Final Destination
End Of Days
Alien box set
Toy Story two
Hollow Man
Mission to Mars
The World Is Not Enough
The Blair Witch Project( Yes i have it :-|)
X-men
The Green Mile (superb Movie)
The Breakfast Club

[Aura Munroe]

I just take ship names from video games. The gears in Xenogears, various things from Final Fantasy, a few latin words and some old military things..

[Live Wire]

well Im not normally in the habit of naming larger ships but when I do personal ships for characters I try to make them fit the character. Kind of like how Mara Jade's ship was The Jades Fire. So for Live Wire I came up with The Lighning's Strike. I think LV named her ship the Cats Claw or something like that. I just like to think about a quality of the owner and figure out something that sounds personalized.

[ReaperFett]

hmm, that's a good idea there LW. I'll try it :)

[Rama]

Star Phoenix was actually inspired by the Millennium Falcon....


Falcon is a bird.......So I went threw and fond a cool sounding bird name, The Phoenix was a Mytholgical firebird that rose from the ashes. So Used that.......then I just starting sticking stuff in front of it.......and Came up with Star Phoenix.

[Khan Surak]

I'm like Visc. I get names out of history and from Roman commanders, like 'Agrippa' and 'Scipio', and names of old cities or renamed cities. Sometimes I get cool names like 'Cyrnus', but then I turn around and there's 'Klagenfurt'. o_O . DF also has a few mixed names. I read 'Red Storm Rising', then I read 'Crimson Empire', so I named my SSD 'Crimson Storm'. We also throw in a few BattleMech names like the 'Wolfhound' and 'Timberwolf'.

[Jyanis Scorpion]

I get my names pretty much from my head, some possibly synonyms of others, and some based on those from books and games. And then there are the few that I really liked and just stole. Heh.

Some name examples: Scythe, Malevolent, Invincible, Vitriolic, Titan, Irrepressible, Inoculate, Diabolic, Malignant, Insuperable, Sabretooth, Heinous, Obdurate, Annihilator, Suppressor, Indiko, Inhibitor, Ineffable, Domineer, Repressor, Altercate, Assiduous, Mammoth, Petrify, Desolator, Pernicious, Conqueror, Audacious, Oblique, Inexorable, Unstable, Decimate, Hammer, Despoiler, Behemoth, Torturer, Virtuous, Coercion, Glorious, Adarga, Ill Fortune, Colossal, Eliminator, Binder, Interference

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by ReaperFett
El Mariachi
Desperado
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Reservoir Dogs
Boondock Saints

Hey, use these as names for your ships! Except, the last one, I think you should call it "The Boondock Saint", as plurals wouldn't work so well. :p Hard Boiled sounds interesting.. :D

[Hoshi No Shikyo]

How I name ships and characters is unique...

I pick out japanese words I like and use them or just stuff that pops into my head.....

Althought I also use anime and video games for big name taking...



and I can't use my DVD collection because I don't own any.....

[Lucifer Bane]

I'm just popping these off the top of my head...so here goes anything..

Souless Trick
Pool of Drowning
FleshCall
Empty Eyes
Brimstone
Blood Shark
Tool of Silence

Meh. Tell me what thou thinkest. Input is appreciated.