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Solidusbucket:
This week? Recyclables

Next week? who knows. probably nothing.

Guagadu:
Pyramidion - The Winged Hussar, because I play aggressively and charge at enemies like a Polish winged hussar. Inspired by the song Winged Hussars by Sabaton.

Spire - White Death, because when I got the game my friends and I only used the Spire for sniper builds, inspired by the song White Death by Sabaton, a song about a Finnish sniper.

Mobula - Aces in Exile, inspired by the song Aces in Exile by Sabaton. Only correlation to the song is the fact that the song is about flying.

Goldfish - The Last Stand, because when in doubt about what to fly, I pick a Hwacha-Fish, hence my Last Stand. Inspired by the song The Last Stand by Sabaton.

Junker - Whale Hunter, after the long-time troll build of mine, with full-harpoons. This is also the only ship that I have never piloted.

Squid - Into the Fire, after my favorite squid build, with two flamethrowers and a harpoon. Inspired by the song Into the Fire by Sabaton.

Galleon - Ghost Division, named after the song Ghost Division by Sabaton, a song about a division of tanks, because the Galleon feels like a tank.

Huskarr:
Pyramidion - Flaramidion: Flare Pyramidion. I like flares and bad puns.

Spire - Flire: Flare Spire. I like flares and  bad puns.

Goldfish - Flarrofish: Flare Carrofish. I like flares and.... you get the theme.

Mobula - Flarebula

Galleon - Flalleon. Used to be "something with flare".

Junker - Flunker

Squid - Fluidflareflagsquid. Used to be "A Fluid". I changed it during Cake's Unbirthday tournament week 2 to Fluidflareflagsquid, because I was one of the flagships that were supposed to be killed. I don't know how stuff escalated to that level.


I tend to change my shipnames spontaniously if I have something witty in response to another shipname in the lobby.

earbudmusic:
Why not bring this back for my first post?

All my ships are named after sea shanty's and I'm desperately in need of another ship so I can have one named Fiddler's Green.

PYRAMIDION- Heave Away Haul Away
--The majority of the time this name is a lie, since I love to ram, but in sniper dunes matches it's true.

GOLDFISH- Drunken Sailor
--This is the one everyone knows, it's one of my main ships, and it's in honor of both my bad driving and certain people's habit of being drunk in lobby.

SQUID- Blood Red Roses
--I just really really love this name, but I don't really run squid...

GALLEON- Coast of Barbary
--Abreviated from The High Coast of Barbary. Sounded piratey.

SPIRE- Lowlands
--Spire for me is a lot of times a suicide ship, tho I try and call it a kill shit for crew morale. This is an extremely sad song and would def recommend a listen.

MOBULA- Spanish Ladies
--Known mostly from Jaws. See if you can guess why this ship got this name

JUNKER- Blow The Man Down
--Fun little song since now I usually run a munker. Also is great because whenever The Mann is in lobby this name gets an extra letter.

NyarIathotep:
Pyramidion: The Mayfly -> Aside of being the name of one of the first airships it conjures astute precognitions of my piloting skills. Also mayflies are pretty amazing, being the only insects that have two imago stages. And they serve as an indicator species. If they can survive, everybody can.

Galleon: Volvox -> Painted green for extra volvoxness. Volvox are green algea, sphere shaped like the galleon balloons, and they are extremely awesome since they are on the verge of being multicellular organisms. They are right in between being a multicellular plant and being a colony of single cell algeas. Just like a good crew should be!

Mobula: Lysozym -> An enzyme that is part of the immune system and breaks down hostile bacteria cell walls. Like, ideally, my mobula breaks the enemy armor. Also, the mobula resembles in its shape lysozym crystals.

Junker: Leukocyte -> White blood cell. The Junker has a white, rather shapeless balloon. And what could be more fearsome than white blood cells?

Goldfish: Tardigrade -> Amazing tiny animal that can survive even in outer space due to anhydrobiosis (death-like, dehydrated state)! Extremely resilient, like the goldfish is. Boiling water? Liquid helium below -260°C? 6000 Bar pressure? Radioactivity? No problem! Also, again, shape similarities.

Squid: Wolfram von Eschenbach -> My favourit medieval author who subverted old literature standards and rules. Even the Middle High German original still reads extremely modern in some parts. I feel his writing style is as nimble and adventurous as the squid.

Spire: IOOth Red Balloon -> 99 of them go by, the 100th shoots back. 8) Needless to say I painted it red.

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