Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.

[madcow]

You should do two word ship names that randomly picks an adjective and a noun for ship names! That would be cool and lead to potentially amusing results.

[YoukaiCountry]

You should do two word ship names that randomly picks an adjective and a noun for ship names! That would be cool and lead to potentially amusing results.

I love this idea.

[Coppermantis]

Ooh, like bosses and NPCs in AVWW. That would be neat, yeah.

[Volatar]

Gratuitous Space Battles did that, or something similar at any rate, and I always thought it was really dumb. No one names ships like that. We always name them with single names.

And to add to the list we need every single common and many uncommon female names.

[Coppermantis]

Nah, GSB just had a list of names for each faction. Federation had weird names like "Once More Unto the Breach" and so on, while Rebels had traditional "Inimitable", "Devastator" and the like. Empire had Roman-esque stuff, blah blah blah.

[Histidine]

[Noun] of [Adverb] [Adjective]

Works very well for the Ob'enn.

[Aklyon]

[Noun] of [Adverb] [Adjective]

Works very well for the Ob'enn.

So would the Arrow of Unquenchable Exploding work?

[Chomper]

Morning Star

[Martyn van Buren]

Murdoch

[Martyn van Buren]

Also, since I feel like alien species should have something alien about their culture---how about borrowing chemistry terms, such as USS Stearic or HMS Ferrocene? They often have the sort of Latin/Greekish mellifluousness that makes them sound like the name of something important, but to the extent people recognize them they also imply really weird alien values that led to their naming ships after fragments of chemical compounds.

E.g.:

Azide
Telluride
Tribromide
Ketene
Stearic
Cysteine
Ferrocene

(Taken from < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_chemical_formulas >)

[spelk]

How about the "Arcenaut"?

[nas1m]

How about the "Arcenaut"?

I absolutely love that one .

[Aeson]

If you're still looking for some of these, might I point you to the USN's naval vessel registry:  http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/NAME.HTM
Or Wikipedia's list of Royal Navy ship names:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy
(Both of these are very long lists, but they're alphabetized and sorted into subpages).

Others:
Icarus
Daedalus
St Elmo's Fire
Lord Fisher
Hornblower
Aubrey
Churchill
Witch of Endor
Spectre
Wraith
Iron Fist
Adrianapolis

[Shrugging Khan]

I've expanded my own ship naming script a bit (everyone has one these days, it seems), and here's some of the more "classical" names it can assign.

Category: Warlords:
Marquis Hernan Cortes Monroy Pizarro Altamirano
General Subutai
Iorg von Frundsberg
William Tecumseh Sherman
Generalissimo Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
King Sargon of Akkad
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Count Johann Tserclaes von Tilly

Category: Battles:
Sarmizegetusa
Gaugamela
Issos
Nordlingen
Cannae
Poltava
Leningrad
Sekigahara

Some of them might be too long, I grant.

[Azurian]

Do you need any more ship names?