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What do you name your ships and why?
Riggatto:
My ship names change very often, and most have a theme to them. The current theme is locations in the game "Sunless Sea"
Pyramidion: Venderbight. A colony of nearly dead citizens all completely wrapped in bandages.
Junker: Avid Horizon. A gateway to and unknown location guarded by giant statues.
Mobula: Irem. A city where conversations will take place in future tense.
Spire: The Gant Pole. An area which contains large corpses and legendary ships.
Galleon: Grand Geode. A huge volcanic crystal on which a town sits guarding The Dawn Machine.
Squid: Polythreme: A city where clay "workers" are manufactured and led by the king of 100 hearts.
Goldfish: Gaider's Mourn. A town full of ruffians and pirates of all sorts.
The Mann:
I came across a player the other day who had a ship with the following name:
"USS SS USSR."
I thought the ship was called the
"United Space Ship - Schutzstaffel of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics"
Thats a pretty original and unusual name
I believe the person thought of it as
United Space Ship, Steam Ship and I cannot remember what his version of USSR meant... :-[
David Dire:
--- Quote from: The Mann on July 12, 2015, 12:01:24 pm ---I came across a player the other day who had a ship with the following name:
"USS SS USSR."
I thought the ship was called the
"United Space Ship - Schutzstaffel of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics"
Thats a pretty original and unusual name
I believe the person thought of it as
United Space Ship, Steam Ship and I cannot remember what his version of USSR meant... :-[
--- End quote ---
unusually stupid saiyan reader?
George Mills:
All of my airships are named after the airships in my Steampunk novel...that I am yet to finish (14,000 words so far, it's little, I know.)
Spire- The Man O' War, a guard ship used for guarding against sky pirates.
Junker- The Bolted Nut, A 'Snatcher' ship, basically petty thieves, much like lesser sky pirates, very poor.
Galleon- The Primrose, A pirate ship, that's it.
Goldfish- The Sultry Siren, a shuttler airship, much like a taxi service.
Squid- The Hawkeye, another shuttler airship, but with better weaponry, more expensive.
Mobula- The Manta, similar to the spire, another guard airship, but used as more of a floating barracks rather than an actual offensive craft.
Pyramidion- The Burning Blubber, a ship primarily used for hunting Sky-Whales, and Leviathan whales, (like Sky-Whales but much, much larger.)
CleverDan:
Since 3/7 ships have names of sea creatures, I decided to name mine all after sea creatures, using genus names:
Goldfish - Carassius
Squid - Todarodes (flying squid, literally)
Mobula - Batoidea (Mobula is already a genus name, so I used the Superorder name)
Junker - Balaenoptera (the Junker isn't the biggest ship, but its balloon looks whale-shaped)
Pyramidion - Xiphias (because swordfish also have a pointy end)
Spire - Hippocampus (it flies upright like a seahorse)
Galleon - Salacia - (This one is different, named after the Roman goddess of the Sea, because the Galleon is a grand, royal ship and doesn't fit a sea creature that I could think of)
I enjoyed naming my ships. That's really when they became MY ships.
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