Starship Names

Frigates get named after knives and daggers. Stiletto, Tanto, Kard.

Destroyers after large daggers/short swords. Kindjal, Khopesh, Gladius.

Cruisers after full sized swords. Rapier, Dha, Firangi.

Battleships are named after polearms. Halberd, Morgenstern, Pudao.

Carriers are named after projectile weapons. Yumi, Longbow, Kaman.

Does your navy ever get big enough to run out of names?

I was just wondering this.

Maybe he changes the language after a while?

I actually really like Halo style names. Both the UNSC and the Covenant have poetic names for whatever reason. Makes sense for the Covenant but for the UNSC?

They're easy to make up as well. Just throw an adjective and a noun together and bam you've got yourself a Covenant armada.

>the fleet of glorious transgression
>the fleet of divine passage

>What do you name your starship, Veeky Forums?
Something appropriate relative to it's purpose, owner(s), and nation of origin.

>Do you go for classic names of antiquity?
Only in settings where it's appropriate.

>Halo-style names?
Define "Halo-style" the Halo franchise has lots of different names depending on which faction the vessel belongs to.

>Something appropriate
Such as... ?

>Define "Halo-style"
Anyone familiar with Halo knows what this is.

>the Halo franchise has lots of different names
Yes, you sound familiar. Can you recall any of their names? Bam! Defined.

Well shit, give a purpose, owner(s), and nation of origin. I'll come up with something.

I just wouldn't call the way bungie writers name their vessels a "style"

A lot of oriental science fiction works use "poetic" names, and we have hundreds of actual vessels with religious names.

Obelisk of Winter

I remeber a thread like this.

The USS "She's one of ours, sir" had to be my favorite

Generally tied with mythology, examples being "Huggin" or "Muninn" for small, scouting vessels, "Valhalla", "Elysium" or "Duat" when its more imposing.

But since I like David Bowie, whenever the owner of said ship is not overly serious, the ship is named Tin Can

Iain M. Banks Culture ship names.

Depends on the ship I guess, my last ship was the "Strelka Neba", "High Fane" is a fav of mine for capital ships.

Covenant names are sweet too.

Whatever I feel like when it's time to name the ship.

...do...do you not?

Really? That was awful.

In a Rogue Trader campaign I GM'd, our flagship was called Ius Candidus, which roughly translates to "white power" (let's pretend anyway). It was a frigate plated in gold. My friends liked to be ironically edgy.

Names of flowers for large and dangerous capitol ships. Made up city names with regal numbers after for lighter escorts.

Examples:
The terrifying and powerful line battleship "Daffodil". The majestic and deadly superdreadnaught "Tulip".

>"Sir, massive FTL signature in bound."
>"IFF, ID?"
>"Negative IFF, warbook is calling it... i-its the FWS D-daisy, sir."
>"My god."

For destroyers and frigates you'd have the New Bridgeport III, scout corvette Elm Pass XV, customs cutter Sacramento XXII.

>"Shit, something just did a hardlaunch out of the station! Its burning fast and swinging around to chase us."
>"We got 30 minutes to FTL limit. Whats coming after us?"
>"Looks like a patrol craft or boarding cutter. Its beacon is broadcasting... the 'New NeoToyko CL'?"
>"Ha! Pull some power from forward shields and reroute to the thrusters. We'll be fine."

I've got a few different naming schemes for different civilisations. Or rather, they're callsigns used by humans to refer to their ship classes. These include:

Latin words: Gladiator-class cruiser, Dictator-class battleship.
Mythical beings associated with water: Naiad-class destroyer, Nereid-class cruiser, Siren-class battleship.
Prehistoric marine invertebrates: Marella-class destroyer, Opabinia-class light cruiser

I've never quite settle for a naming standard for human ships though. Using names of moons and planets is the idea I've had, but you'll run out of planets pretty soon unless you start naming your ships "234-Polaris-2b" or whatever. Other possibility is using names of famous ships of war.

I like this Exalted-style naming.

I'm also really fond of Stellaris' meme-names for pirate ships. Feature Creep, Three's A Crowd, Lowest Bidder, just inane bullshit that's absolutely perfect for irreverent space vessels.

The merry ship "Snoop Dogg" the 420th ship of the Portland class

>Civilian-owned
Shock Diamond
White Lightning
Invincible II
Folly
MV [Line name] [station name]
>Military
UNSS New Houston (missile destroyer)
SD 38 (small gunship, no name)
UNSS Indomitable (mothership, carrier type)

for some settings, I'll recycle pretentious Revelation Space lighthugger type names
You, I like you

I tend to go for evocative, classical sounding names, usually with some sort of subtle reference to it's abilities and backstory, when it comes to my Rogue Trader's ships. Examples include...

>The Jovian Tides
>Pride of the Blood
>Hunter's Lance
>Scorpion's Lament

There is always a particularly powerful capital ship that bears the name Charlemagne.

so, whenever we have threads asking for ship names I always end up adding the good ones to a big list

Thunderchild
Arrowhead
Redemption
Ravenous
Retribution
Rastafarian
Satellite of Hate
Flaming platypus
Death's Flight
The Tragically Fated
Indecent Proposal
Ephemeron
Topolect
Corona
Exemplar
Hierarch
Celestial Fire
Infinity Vanguard
Outbound Express
Dubious Pleasure
Scandalous Attire
Hyperdrive is Overloading
HMS Rustbucket
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Yellow Submarine
Working Man
The Gambler
Last Rights
Quick Draw
Red Ride 2
Metal Fighter
Virtual Insanity
President Spirit
Mobious 1
Hard Nose
Dept Blue
Good Feather
Assign Mark
Invictus
Fearless
Warlock
Vulcan
Hephaestus
Medusa
Heirophant
The Dutchman
Mary Celeste
Barnham's Pride
Dawson's Christian
Cherry Lips
Ring of Fire
Black Steel

Grave Wisdom
The Moneymaker
Arcadia
Forward Unto Dawn
Tiamat
She's One Of Ours, Sir
Der Freischutz
Solaris
Candlejack
Cerebus.
Wunterwaffen.
Carabosse.
Battletoad.
Blazing Justice.
Radiant Eclipse.
Dreadnought.
Worldcrusher.
it's just a pile of junk
small reckon vessel
Eve of Destruction
HMS Jörmungandr
Sleipnir
Garm
Fafnir (and)
Fenrir
The USS Intervention
Harm's Way
Terminus Est
Mandatae Thanatos
The Hand of Death
Malleus Vincere (Iustitia)
The Hammer of Victory (Justice)
The Kiss of Dawn
castor & pollux
archemedies
cronos
the atlas
posidons trident
Vow of Poverty
Blessing of Vengeance
Fire of Salvation
Litany of Fury
Ultima Ratio Regum (Latin: 'The Last Argument of Kings')
Kriegsmesser
Leverage
Unnecessary Compensation
Awkward Silence
Belligerence
Outer Heaven
Deckard's Dream
Nostalgia for Infinity
Nebula Dancer
Elegy of Dying Stars
A Difference of Opinions
The Muse of Fire
The Muse of water
The Muse of earth
The Muse of the air
Doomcock
Battleship: Dominion
Carrier: Valhalla
Destroyer: Ragnarok
CannonFodder
White Lightning
Chocolate Thunder
A Frank Exchange of Views
The Great Negiotiator
Overcompensation
The Messenger
The Diplomatic Solution
The Negotiator
To Whom It May Concern
The Your Mom
The Event Horizon
The Challenger
The Unnatural Selector
The Corpse Wagon
The A Sensor Glitch
The Old Man Rocket
The Extra Ribbed For Her Pleasure
The Dirty Damnation
Maximum Fuck
The Spectre
The "We're Totally Legit"
The "Gravitas? I'll Show You Gravitas!"
Piece of Ship
Rumrunner
Excess Baggage
Century Eagle
Decade Sparrow
Year Tit
The S.S. Empty Hold
St. Vladmir (He's the patron saint of smugglers.)
The Bandit Moon
Shoots First
The Better Side of Life.
God's Dice
Hidden Ace
Lady Luck

Fortuna's Smile
Lakshmi Parayan
Tyche's Favor
Sylph's Kiss
Undine's Embrace
Barricade Breaker
Blessing of the Night
Poison Thought
Stormchaser
Windrunner
Wavecutter
Gale Force
Night Prowler
Silent Advance
Poacher
Serpent
Sea Dragon
Offshore Fairy
Dock Rat
[Captain]'s Advantage
One Jump Behind
Honest Mistake
Spearhead of Tyr
Judgment of Tyr
"Fire all guns"
The Rape Roster
Sgt Pepper
Gravatis
Gun Boat Diplomat
Aluminum Falcon
Totally Legit
Nothing Wrong
Flawless Record
Trapped in Shipyard, Send Help
When on Centauri...
Consider This a Mutiny, Sir.
Sir, the shields are down
Fool Maker
Truth Taunter
Jokernaught
Honest Bane
Siren's Call
I'm In Love With You, Sir.
Candlejack's Shi
With All Due Respect, Sir, Suck My Dick, You Worthless Fucking Faggot
Boarding Distance
Dengar's Dumptruck
U.S.S. Lexington
Ockham's razor
"Ridiculous Overcompensation"
"Gunbomb"
"Hyperdick"
Judgement Scar
Fight of fancy
Tactile hallucination
Perpetual notion
Natural de-selection
Sampling error
Upward and onward
Bag Of Spanners
Nuclear Kitten
Suicidal Tendencies
The Zap Wagon
Lasting Damage
Soulhaven
Awkward Customer
Sanctioned Parts List
Nuisance Value
The Rape Stick
Oh God, What Is That
Look At Me, I'm Flying
Why Do I Even Bother
Hey, Look Behind You
Straight For Your Ass
I Am A Hammer
Winter Storm
Unwitting Accomplice
Cantankerous
Long View
Appeal To Reason
Uninvited Guest
Determinist
Limiting Factor
Bojangles
Gethsemane
Spright
Causeless
Panorama VIII
Rustier Precedents
Deliberate
Leyden
Pestling
Cynthia 74
Exile's Quarter
The Earthward
Glutethimide
New Kindness
Sorrow Jurors
Immutable

I like names from the culture, so I use things like "enough of this messing about" and "hiding from responsibility"

culture names are pretty good.

I'm trying to figure out good names for my homebrew Starfinder settings for each major civ. How does everyone else go about name conventions for cultures?

>Playing Starfinder.

It's a play off of Victory At Sea

C is lightspeed.

And now we're under arrest. My charge is murder of a joke. Yours is accessory to joke murder.

In a EotE campaign I'm in, my bounty hunter has a ship called the rodian damsel because the ship looks like shit. the rational is that no one expects a well armed bounty hunter to emerge from such a hunk of junk.

Hue hue hue hue good meme my friend. Got any actual advice for naming conventions for fantasy cultures or are you just gonna sit there and post reaction images

Well your first thing is naming it after significant figures - usually either heads of state or admirals - because pretty much everyone does that.
So if you've got histories for the civs, that helps a lot.

Next is just naming it after the country (usually capital ships) and areas or cities, and some countries do momentous events

The next category is just naming it after concepts and notable short phrases (from speeches or what have you) - it's less common than the other two, globally at least, but if often produces the most badass names (Dreadnought, for example, comes from one of the first Elizabeth's speeches that the navy (or England, idk) should "fear god and Dread Naught").

Also worth noting, usually you'll name ships of the same class with a theme (or letter), but that theme will usually be confined to a single class.
This isn't compulsory though, you can get things changing with people being honoured and prevailing conditions - the Royal Navy's Tiger Class cruisers were Tiger, Lion and... Blake (and none of them started off with those names, or names that matched for that matter)

You'll be in for some serious pun-ishment

No bullshit user just play Stars Without Number, it's a lot better than starfinder crunchwise and knocks off a lot of bloat

>Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath

I've heard SWN is OSR and doesn't have a very high adventure feel.

Thanks user!! Have sci fi art

You heard wrong

Only named ship in my Dark Heresy campaign is the Penumbra.

I quite enjoy naming ships after vessels from Iain M. Banks Culture novel series.
They're generally bits of wordplay for their function, or deliberately misleading names, and some are almost memes (The Gravitas line of ships is one of these).

I get it.

>Whatever I feel like

...so...so no naming convention?

>FWS

Free Worlds Ship?

Shit, I've been doing the same thing. There'll be some overlap, but I'll dump some of mine too.

10,000 Years of Shame
A Brilliant Plan to Win the War Involving a Coathanger, Three Nails, Two Balloons and a Pack of Bubblegum
A Difference of Opinions
A Frank Exchange of Views
A Glitch In the Targeting System
A Really Bad Idea
Abomination
Absolution
Absurd
Acid Rock
Aeronaut
Agamemnon
AI, Begin Cargo Drop
Ajax
Alexander
All Aboard The Party Van
All Night's Edge
All Ships, Fire On Our Coordinates
Alone
Aluminum Falcon
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Am I Popular Yet
Amanita Phalloides
Amerigo
An Insignificant Speck of Dust
Anarchist
Ancient Echo
And Now So Are You
Andromeda Or Bust
Anthraxian Leper Colony Ship C
Aperture
Appeal To Reason
Aquinas
Arcadia
Arcane Liar
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
Arrowhead
Ask Me About Transhumanism
Asp
Aspirate Come
Assign Mark
Atrocity
August Judgement
Auspicious
Awkward Customer
Awkward Silence
Axiom
Bad Apple
Bag Of Spanners
Bane
Barbarossa
Barnham's Pride
Barricade Breaker
Basilica Born
Bastard of Bolton
Battletoad
Beautiful Terror
Belligerence
Beowulf
Bereavement
Bigger On The Inside
Bigger Stick
Billion-Dollar Baloney
Black Mamba
Black Steel
Blazing Justice
Blazing Light
Blessing of the Night
Blessing of Vengeance
Bloody Maria
Blue Light
Boarding Distance
Bojangles
Bongolian Deathcrab
Bongolian Ultraprawn
Boxy Bastard
Brain Drain
Brigade Eater
Bring My Brown Pants
Brünhild
Bully for You
Buyer Beware
Call Me Ishmael
Candlejack
Cannon Fodder
Cantankerous
Captain Is Unfit for Command
Captain, I'm In Love With Your Wife
Carabosse
Cargo Cult
Carpe Diem
Causeless
Celestial Fire
Century Eagle
Cerebrevore
Cerebus
Certified To Perform Stellar Iron Injections

>Makes sense for the Covenant but for the UNSC?
Well humans are poetic.

And the Covenant ship names are made up by humans.

So why can't humans be poetic?

Chained Reaction
Chariot of Memes
Cheeky Thief
Cherry Lips
Chiropractional
Chocolate Thunder
Circumvent
Classified Information
Clear Air Turbulence
Clever Retort
Collateral Damage
Collision Alarm
Compensating For Everything
Compensating For Something
Computer, Shut Down Life Support And Open All Airlocks
Consider This a Mutiny, Sir
Convolking Scholar
Cornboiler
Corona
Corporate Paradigm
Corpus Delicti
Corrective Rod
Crotchety Bastard
Crown of Iron
Crystal Ship
Curriculum
Cycle of Eternity
Cymekt
Cynthia 74
Damascus
Dante
Dark Horse
Dawson's Christian
Dead Eye
Death's Flight
Decade Sparrow
Deckard's Dream
Definitely Rethinking
del c:\Windows\system32
Delayed Detonation
Deliberate
Deliverance
Dengar's Dumptruck
Dept Blue
Der Fliegende Holländer
Der Freischutz
Despite Our Insurmountable Differences I'm Quite Sure We Can Both Get Along
Determinist
Deus Invictus
Deus Vult
Devourer
Diamond Dozen
Disingenuous Beast
Disregard This, I Suck Cocks
Do A Barrel Roll
Do You Prefer Your Soldiers Medium-Rare Or Extra Crispy?
Dock Rat
Doesn't Have a Name
Dominion
Domino Effect
Don't Search Our Hold
Don't Worry, It Happens To A Lot Of Warships
Dracodeus
Dubious Pleasure
Duct Tape
Durendal
Elegy of Dying Stars
Elessar Telcontar
Engagement Zone Hypercorrelator
Enigmatic Ghost
Enormity
Ephemeron
Eschatologist
Essex
Eternal 12
Eternal Adolescent
Eve of Destruction
Even In The Future Nothing Works
Excelion
Excelsior
Excess Baggage
Exemplar
Exile's Quarter
Expedient Soul
Faded Black
Fafnir
Faith Eternal
Falcata
Fateful Lightning
Fearless
Feichuan VII

>Thunderchild
10/10
>Arrowhead
9/10
>Redemption
9/10
>Ravenous
5/10
>Retribution
8/10
>Rastafarian
2/10
>Satellite of Hate
0/10
>Flaming platypus
0/10
>Death's Flight
1/10
>The Tragically Fated
0/10
>Indecent Proposal
0/10
>Ephemeron
3/10
>Topolect
3/10
>Corona
8/10
>Exemplar
7/10
>Hierarch
4/10
>Celestial Fire
5/10
>Infinity Vanguard
2/10
>Outbound Express
7/10
>Dubious Pleasure
3/10
>Scandalous Attire
0/10
>Hyperdrive is Overloading
-10/10
>HMS Rustbucket
1/10

>Maxwell's Silver Hammer
0/10
>Yellow Submarine
1/10
>Working Man
0/10
>The Gambler
2/10
>Last Rights
0/10
>Quick Draw
1/10
>Red Ride 2
0/10
>Metal Fighter
0/10
>Virtual Insanity
-10/10
>President Spirit
0/10
>Mobious 1
4/10
>Hard Nose
1/10
>Dept Blue
0/10
>Good Feather
4/10
>Assign Mark
0/10
>Invictus
7/10
>Fearless
7/10
>Warlock
8/10
>Vulcan
8/10
>Hephaestus
7/10
>Medusa
8/10
>Heirophant
6/10
>The Dutchman
3/10
>Mary Celeste
7/10
>Barnham's Pride
1/10
>Dawson's Christian
0/10
>Cherry Lips
0/10
>Ring of Fire
8/10
>Black Steel
6/10

I'll get to all your others later.

Probably 'something else'. I don't know how to describe it so here are a few examples:

>"Destroyer"/"Cruiser" equivalents
>Arms Parade, Vanguard Carver, Void Reflex, Disaster Herald, Fervent Pursuit, Strident

>"Frigate" equivalents
>Gun Runner, Ballista Faith, Jagged Edge, Counterforce, Spatial Guard, Sun Hammer

>"Carrier" equivalents
>Silver Universe, Legion's Nest, Cold Embrace, Starforce Valor

When it's non-military anything goes.

It has magic and Jedi rules?

One of the three character classes is Psychic, you can play and fluff that like you want it, along with a bunch of fluffy psychic powered stuff

Also rules pdf is free, which is awesome, so you can browse that to see if it's what you want, I'm putting together an adventure game for my players and decided that this was the best fit, because it doesn't focus on monster hunting/ combat as much as starfinder, while having objectively better starship battles rules

Looking back on it I seem to name ships based on the situation when I am a player, such as 'The Tactful Huntress' and 'The Breakout'

For ludicrously gigantic ships

>I'm Totally Unarmed, See?
>Not a Warship
>You Have Seen Nothing
>Just a Flying City
>Nothing To See Here
>Seriously, Nothing
>It's One of Yours
>Just an Ordinary ISD
>Several Hundred Cubic Kilometers of Vacuum

A pale and sad imitation.

Only if you can spare some time away from your extremely valuable work rating waifu pillows.

Nobody give a shit about your shit opinion.

>55069344
That sounds like the name for private owned spaceships used as tools of the trade.
I can totally dig a small freighter hauling ore or whatever being called something like that.

Tag This Contact

Tuberculosis submarine.

pastebin.com/fRk2yNxn

Oh and these are the ones I came up with in there:

Correct To Nine Decimal Places
Fuck, They Have A Dreadnaught
Newton's Bitch
Do Not Open 'Till Christmas
Abbot Joscelin
Revenge of Roland
I Took The Name From a Cartoon
Solar Angel
Unexplainable Infrared Emitter
NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL BARGE B/119/2129 SELLAFIELD: DO NOT APPROACH
Nelson 2: This Time, With Cyborg Arm!
Elric of Melnibone
The Inevitable Result
The Sharp End
YOUR-AD-HERE
The Ship With No Name
Lux de Dux
Macehead
We Have A Bank Of Coilguns: Don't Even Think About It.
Scrumpy Jack
Knight Of The Realm
Seriously, Don't Even Think About It,
Herald of Hastur
We've Already Locked On
Library Of The Cosmos
An Insignificant Spec of Dust
Bailiff
The Plumber
Ship 2000 X-TREME!!1
The Opulence of Knightsbridge
Perforated Metal
Deer In The Headlights
I'M A STEALTH SHIP, HONEST
Stating the Obvious
Brand X
ship: by Calvin Klein
Damage per Second
Broken Bottle
Warranty Expired

I kind of like the naming conventions in Mass Effect. The frigates are named after great battles, the cruisers after cities, and the dreadnoughts after mountains. Kind of neat.

dependsonthesetting.jpg

The last time I played Traveller I was unable to convince the party to name our ship The Summer of George. I tried to argue that it wasn't an anachronism because Seinfeld was as far removed from the Traveller era as the Epic of Gilgamesh is from the modern day, but this one guy just wasn't having it. Apparently spaceships need to have cool and intimidating names so that other spaceships can know how cool and intimidating you are.

Also, I'm calling you out cool-spaceship-name guy, I know you read Veeky Forums and I know you fucking remember this.

They are all named for my unrequited love

Her Maudlin Smile
Her Wistful Sigh
Her Melancholy Laugh
Her Chaste Kiss
Her Gentle Wrath
etc

Jack's Raging Bile Duct.

always liked using non-planet solar bodies
Flagship is always Ganymede(love that name)
But also use Charon, Rhea, Callisto, Io, Oberon ect
lots of nice little names for nice little things floating around out celestial neighborhood which you dont see much

Dom Sebastião, because I want a ship that can survive anything and ram what's in front of it.

youtu.be/8WB2cEBnAyM
>The war helm of the King of Portugal D.Sebastião, the Desired
>This is the world leading war helm with the biggest amount of cuts in it, 89 marks of scimitars and swords marked on its steel, none of them are in the rear.
>Meaning that the young 24 years old Portuguese King never showed his back to his moorish enemies, even while wearing his bullet proof armor. The war helm also suffered the impact of a 16th century grenade launcher.

Weeping Somnambulist.

The two best ship names I've ever heard came from Halo:
Two for Flinching, a heavy destroyer
In Amber Clad

I like using the dominant naming convention of the British Navy, and naming ships after adjectives. Things like Implacable (47th of its name), Indestructable, Incontinent, Impervious, Resolute, and Impassive

>Sea of Light
>Solar Wanderer
>Alabaster Star
>Sword of Celestia
>Minstrel Star
>Light Hawk

I like to make it vary by faction so that it helps give you an idea of what each group is like.

Several factions name their ships primarily after people, and their choices of people reflect their values. A group that names a ship after Alexander the Great has different views and priorities that one that names a ship after Johannes Gutenberg, which itself is different from naming your ships after your own past leaders.

Other groups use names that are essentially boasts like Invincible, Indomitable, Juggernaut, Impervious, Victorious. Some more alien factions give their ships more strange or poetic sounding names like Farewell to Dreams, the Forgotten Song, or the Glass Sacrament.

Not smooth enough fucker

I like emphasising the nihilistic emptiness of space.

Names include:
Endless Expanse
Void swimmer
Reverse Depth
Matter-muncher
The Journey
Purpose
Sanity's strands
Fate
Intergalactic space debris

Are you me?

I have a fuck huge list of names I've taken off Veeky Forums

>And the Covenant ship names are made up by humans.

What? Why do you think that's the case?

The Deciding Factor
Foregone Conclusion
Last Line
Forlorn Hope
Shark Bait
Iron and Plasma

"The Long Night" if the setting is suitably grim and/or dark and the ship has enough oomph to back that name up

otherwise "Cosmic Drifter" or "Star Sailor" or something along those lines, I can never think of good one word names that wouldnt have been taken a thousand times already

Sun Jammer

Thot

>What do you name your starship, Veeky Forums?

Depends on a lot of factors really

But here are a few personal favorites

>If You Can Read This We're Ramming
>Leisurely Xenocide
>Terra Invicta
>World-Scarring Solar Glory
>No Greater Gods
>Freudian Nightmare
>Apocalypse Soon
>Gun With A Ship Attached
>The State Department Would Like You To Reconsider
>Federal Mandate for Murder
>Republic at the Gates
>Eve of Destruction
>Unsafe At Ramming Speed

That's pretty rad

Isn't that just using classical mythology by proxy?

>just inane bullshit that's absolutely perfect for irreverent space vessels.

This last one's a bit on the nose and too long to fit onto a ship registry don't you think?

I usually give them dumb names, like "Buyer's Remorse" and "Spacey McSpaceFace".

I figure future-people will have the same views on flowery and poetic/edgy tryhard ship names as I do (e.g. they're pretentious and stupid, and make you sound like a twat).

Another vote for the Culture's ship names, although I DO like the idea of all my Hive Mind ships having body part names in the setting I'm working on.
The flagship is currently the Raised Third Digit, since their military is pretty damn small and if they're attacked that's about all she'll manage to do.

The Unsinkable

In one of the games I played small fighters and mechs were named after animals - Wolf, Tiger, Armadillo, Cobar and so on.

And for one of the settings that I've never got to use aliens names their ships with derogatory names - Duplicitous, Oblivious, Impotent, Atrocious.

ironic samefag

my man. i've always loved the names in the Culture series

Very Little Gravitas Indeed
Zero Gravitas
Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall
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

I like the Charakter Forming ships, too
It's Character Forming
Resistance Is Character-Forming