Spaceship thread

"Boldly Go."

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You realize they'd probably just give it an identifier or go by the registration number in combat, right?

I hope they open their hails with a hearty "LIBERATE TU ME, EX INFERIS"

the Swan Song

An actual merchant vessel? Any name will work. If it is owned by a someone other than the captain/crew, then you should just pick from a random list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cargo_ships

If it's owned by a money-focused man, maybe the following will work:
>[The] Forward Prospect
>[The] Bottom Line
>In The Black
>Just Doshing You
>[The] Negotiator
>Silk Road
>The [Name of Captain/owner's first girlfriend]
>Venture
>Claimjumper

Ships i commandered or chartered over my long carrer as an armchair space captain:
>Kessler Syndrome, a fast intrasystem attack ship
>Kepler Cowboy, multipurpose in-situ resource extractor
>Is this Trip Really Necessary? a 500.000 TEU container carrier
A few more with more serious names, the Not-a-Revelation's-Space-Lighthuggers Erebus first to come to my mind.
And of course a few more with names self-referencing their gravitas, or lack thereof.

Fimbral winter
Victors end
Victorious march
Stalwart

How about (the rarer) spaceship interior maps?

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Without Pain or Fear Or Doubt
Motor Of The World
Wealth Of Suns

SS Adolf Hitler

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:^)

"Candy falls out when you kick me"

Anyone have any Spelljammer type stuff?

>Can't Get Ye Flask
>Absolutely No You Know What
>der Hexenkessel
>Bringer of Light
>Kilroy
>Bucket of Ever-Seething Rust

Kinda looks like a Kestrel...

Boaty McBoatface.

Shippy McShipface

Leaky McAirlock

Overrated post.

Pretty sure it's concept art for it.

It's a concept art for the kestrel but it seems that it evolved into both the kestrel and the flagship.

Got you covered OP. I started a list of Halo ship names back in one of the old Mythic threads and I've been building it since then; they're not tied to the setting so they can easily be reused for other stuff.

docs.google.com/document/d/18J6Z4LCl1rh5Ly0W0T1-VrQfSN7IbDD1o2R8UibdEC0/edit

Some of the Covenant names are a bit naff since I'm no good with religious-sounding shit, but the UNSC section should have something you can use.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_balls

How do all these spaceships generate a force acting upon all bodies within their hulls of about 9.8N towards the floor?

"(Complicated programming string) DropTable "crew" (complicated programming string)

Azure Trailblazer.

However the fuck they want. Nothing has to confine itself to real-life physical necessities unless the participants want it to do so.

I'm so tired of Revelation Space being used as some kind of hard sci-fi 'gotcha' when it's about as flaccid as my dick when I see Queen Elizabeth.

Why does a ship for like 5 people have a full medical bay?

Why would you use a rotating inner structure and all the engineering nightmares that come with it if you could also just spin the ship?

They appear to be mercenaries or pirates. The bay itself also looks like an aftermarket addition to the cargo hold, which helps.

Gyroscopic stabilization.
Avoiding sheer forces along the hull due to differing masses in each area of the ship.
Avoiding the wobble former prevents and the latter exacerbates.
Can have various redundant rings that can be easily sealed or quarantind without having to take up a section that cuts off one half of the ship from the other.
Reasons abound especially in space where fuckups in single unit systems tends to leak into other systems making multiple redundancies and therefore work arounds ideal. Only idiots would try to make ships barebones or "streamlined" by reducing "unneeded systems".

I've always liked the rather poetic names ships have in the Halo verse.

"In Amber Clad"
"Shadow of Intent"

Just throw some random adjectives and and nouns together.

Holy shit it works.
randomlists.com/random-adjectives
desiquintans.com/articles/noungenerator.php
A Devilish Obligation.

>The Dead Conspirator
>The Cruel Command
>The Sneaky Thunderbolt

Excellent.

>Quickest Partridge
>Versed in Philosophy
>The Eminent Marksman
>Spiritual Successor

Space Slavs: The Drunken Squatter

Gravitas Free Zone

I feel like 'Alas, Poor Yorick' would fit the feel of UNSC ship names.

Don't Need Hohmann

How about

>Once More

>With Feeling.

I like a lot of Shlock Mercenary ships, though "Serial Peacemaker" is probably one of the best.

Battleplates have cool names as well, but that's a naming convention that only really works for them

The Golden Spray
A Mon Cal luxury liner.

Remember, originality is overrated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise

Alternatively, make a cheeky reference to a series you enjoy.

Tranquility
Heart of Silver
Gray Pearl

Pearl Necklace
The Sugar Dancer
Snowball
The Party Van
Slip'n'Run

I once had a couple of players who took forever and a day to name their ship, so they were formally introduced at a governor's ball as the crew of the [placeholder].

They instantly named the bloody ship Lorem Ipsum.

"Rigged for your pleasure."

>Probable Cause
>Shoulder Of Orion
>By Inferno's Light
>Half A League Onward
>Thunderchild
>Off Armageddon Reef
>Gathers No Moss
>Moonwalker
>Right Back At You
>Silently Into The Night
>Lazarus Long
>Sticks and Stones
>If You Can Read This We're Ramming
>Harbinger of Piety
>Ardent Field
>Sorrowful Breath
>Verdant Song
>Comet Kicks up Dust
>Aboukir
>Judge Victorious

Pick your favorite quote
Name the ship that

Culture has some neat names too

>Everyone's an asshole!
>He's an asshole!
>She's an asshole!
>We're all assholes!
Eh.

Oops. Forgot.
>You're an asshole!

>No breaks on the rape train
i love it

>Jade princess
Feels good to see one of my suggestions in there.

>Jill's Amulet
>The Buddha
>The Charity
>The Cunning Miguel
>The Eccentricity Coachman
>The Enlightened Jon
>The Fighting Insect
>The Flying Ring
>The Genie's Greaves
>The Hermit Lawrence
>The Innocence Sigil
>The Merchant's Meditation
>The Midwife's Friendship
>The Murderous Karen
>The Pretender's Charity
>The Savior Insect
>The Seeker Nexus
>The Steel Desert
>The Sylvan Ocean
>The Theologian's Rebellion

Here go crazy.
seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=shipnamer

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Dare you enter my magical sector?

>Thunderchild
forever this

>Dutchman
>Celeste
>Barham's Pride
>Dawson's Christian

Sorry, didn't mean to post with the trip.

By your assumption that any enemy will speak our language, will have no way of identifying a ship besides writing, will be even capable of seeing the name of our ship and not just a blip on radar, will care about the name of our ship before it knows whether we're hostile, and has to say the full name of our ship out loud before doing anything:

"U.S.S. According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Coming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Can you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, Three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way...

This goes on and on until we run out of the room.

>Fancy Suspenders

I actually think "Unto the Breach" fits better as a halo-esque ship name.

Per Mentula Unitas

Through dick, unity
I don't actually speak Latin so it's probably completely wrong, grammatically

Less talk more ships.

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Does anyone have any pics of Eldar ships?

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