The Earth Fleet needs your help with naming!

[Zantos]

For a start, I'd name it by battlegroup rather than naming each individual ship, cuts down on the necessity for creativity a little bit (though if the crew wanted to give nicknames, I wouldn't be against that). Endless Space does this, and it makes naming things much easier, I have enough time deciding what class name to give each design.

Battlegroups would be named dependent on their purpose, with historically relevant names like Enterprise and Apollo for the explorer groups, and for the more heavily armed ships we have names like Armageddon, Mars or Tyr. Within the battlegroup, ships are graded and given a secondary designation to go after the group name. The lead ship takes prime, because Armageddon-Prime sounds like an awesome place to command from. Secondaries are labelled with the greek alphabet, because commanding Mars-Omega to fire from your admiral's chair on Mars-Prime would also be awesome. Escorts and other vessels are then numbered, because it's still pretty badass even if you are only torpedo fodder.

The only forseeable problem with this is you either have to lose entire battlegroups at a time, or do a lot of re-naming.

 

[CrazyJew]

Ctrl+F
Enterprise
I am proud of you, Escapist.

 

[StormShaun]

I introduce you, the Blackhawke.
A ship I invented for a RP.

It is overpowered as Heaven itself!

Spoiler: The Blackhawke

Name of ship: Blackhawke
Type of ship: Capital ship of the Lightning Archangel fleet.
Height: 25kms.
length: 250kms.
Floors: 250 floors.
Sections:
Floor 1 - Commander's penthouse.
Floor 2 - Command Center, Living area.
Floor 3 - Holographic dojo, hanger, bar, gym/stadium/nature room.
Floor 4 - Armory, machines and eng area.
Weapons: Lightning turrets, Lightning life ripper and etc.
Defense: 10X Angelic metal plating, Holy lightning shields.
Population: 10 million.

Yeah... any one... or planet would be bye bye if you got in it's way.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The USS Kill Beast Buffet. And for good measure we'll paint the ships gun metal grey and outfit them with plenty of flickery-ass florescent lights.

 

[White_Lama]

I might go Norse for a capital ship. I just like the idea of a call going in: "All-Father, this is Alpha-1, do you copy?" And then of course we could always name ships after Medal of Honor (or the equivalent from other nations) recipients (USS Audie Murphey, anyone?)...Or we could name them after comic book superheros...Can you imagine that? "Hang tight, Batman. Green Lantern and Black Lightning are poised to intercept..."

You just took the words from my mind.

Being Swedish I'd definetly go for the Norse mythology as spaceship names.

Ragnarok is just a badass name for a big cruiser ship.

 

[Hectix777]

I'm going to go with "Armstrong","Galileo", and "Challenger".

Armstrong for the first man on the moon

Galileo for the father of astronomy

And Challenger in memory of the seven brave astronauts that perished in that unfortunate event. They deserve a proper tribute.

Other good names I could go for would be Apollo 21, Odyssey, Hercules, and Texas. I'm also partial to Clinton or Mandela.

 

[The Heik]

"Enterprise", of course. It was the first space shuttle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise] after all.

The funny thing about the Star Trek series is that even non-trekkies wouldn't blink if we named a starship "Enterprise". If we named it "Millenium Falcon" on the other hand people would roll their eyes and balk.

Well that's because "Enterprise" was a fairly famous ship name long before Star Trek came around. I mean the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28CV-6%29"]Big E[/a] alone would be justification enough.

The Star Trek Mythos just appropriated it to keep up a semblance of temporal continuity.

OT: Well I think I got a general scheme for various roles

Exploration/Science vessels:
- Named after locations and geographical features on Earth ie Mariana, Everest, Cairo, Hong Kong etc.
- Named after mythic and mystical places ie El Dorado, Atlantis, Olympus, Valhalla (most likely reserved for flagships)

Combat/Security vessels:
- Named after famous battle locations ie Alamo, Jerusalem, Normandy, Thermopylae etc.
- Named after notable military figures ( both individual and object) ie Patton, Sun Tzu, Enterprise, Bismarck etc. (most likely reserved for flagships)

Engineering/Construction vessels:
- Names of famous landmarks and architectural marvels (excluding mundane words) ie Eiffel Tower would be just Eiffel, Great Pyramids at Giza would just being Giza, Golden Gate Bridge just being Golden Gate etc.

Diplomatic vessels:
- Named after famous historical figures ie Gandhi, Churchill, Augustus, Nebuchadnezzar etc.

Colony vessels:
- Named after words that inspire wonder and strength ie Odyssey, Endeavour, Valiant, Indomitable, Journey etc.

Figure that should cover any of the important aspects of intergalactic interaction

 

[6urk17s]

Go for the silly ones, for example:
Alienated Artifact, Mindless Zealot, Unfortunate Apocalypse, Daisie Massacre, Shattered Plate, Broken Wrench, Freezing Holocaust, Civil Insanity, Knitting Madman, Royal Anarchist and so on.

We could call our Diplomatic flagship to xenos worlds the "Bringer of Eternal Peace".

 

[Ryotknife]

Greek or Norse mythology.

Odin, Hydra, Levianathan, valkyrie.

.....final fantasy characters?

Leviathan is form the bible. Fun little fact.

On topic I say Band Mascots. That is the only true and just way. What are you talking about I am not biased at all.

really? didnt know that. Guess I should have said kraken

 

[Lucane]

The "Pillar of Autumn"(Halo), The "Beluga"(Beyond: G&E), "Titan" (Titan A.E.), "Space Defense Fortress - 1/S.D.F.-1" (Robotech/Macross), "Galaxy Express 999" (Galaxy Express 999) "S.S. Dark Horse" (Big Guy and Rusty) and Finally the "Escapist MAG" M.A.G. Class(Matter Acceleration Generator)" ... (I can't think of where I got the idea for that from.)

 

[Pinkamena]

BIG SPACE WESSEL 1.

Because fuck originality!

 

[The Funslinger]

I really like the Greek mythology names that can be applied to ships. As is the case of the Stargate franchise with Daedalus, Prometheus, Apollo, Odyssey. So apply any god/goddess, hero, or story name is easy.

I agree with this one we could go its sounds badass we also need a firefly class ship

and a Skywalker class and an odin class

An article I was linked about an astro-mining project and the mining ships were classed 'Fireflies'. Though for some reason they spelled it 'FireFlies', with a capital second F.

Still awesome.

 

[wrightguy0]

The Hyperion would be a good name. though any dignified name would suffice

Zarathustra

Valiant

Icarus

Renown

Noble

anything that makes humanity look like a noble, dignified race, while still sounding like ships you don't want to fuck with or would be proud to fight beside

 

[LtFerret]

Icarus

anything that makes humanity look like a noble, dignified race, while still sounding like ships you don't want to fuck with or would be proud to fight beside

Icarus wouldn't be very good name then because all he did was fuck up flying and die

Daedalus would be more fitting if anything

 

[MortisLegio]

Harlequin

Nautilus

Enterprise

Colossus

Freedom

Independence

Almost anything from Mythology or Religious text: (Hydra, Behemoth, Leviathan, Zeus, Odin, Thor, Ect)

 

[Plasmadamage]

Fleet 1- Call-sign "VALHALLA"

Flagship- Odin, supported by 2 Raven class escort ships, Huginn and Muninn

Heavy Warships- Thor, Baldur, Heirmdall

Supercarrier- Yggdrasil, manned with squadrons of VALKYRIE short range fighter/bombers

Support Cruisers- Loki, Freya, Fenrir

Titan class destroyer- Jormaguandr

 

[wrightguy0]

Icarus

anything that makes humanity look like a noble, dignified race, while still sounding like ships you don't want to fuck with or would be proud to fight beside

Icarus wouldn't be very good name then because all he did was fuck up flying and die

Daedalus would be more fitting if anything

Don't let the aliens know that D:
If they find out i named a ship after a guy who couldn't fly then i'm going to be the laughing stock of the galactic ball, i'll never be able to show my face in the galactic capitol again!

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

The Dauntless.

See it has subtext. Exploration and discovery require courage, the unknown is scary. To be Dauntless is to be unafraid of any challenge no matter how hard, it would represent our ability "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield". The second one could be called the Ulysses. They need to represent our ability to be more than ourselves and to push every frontier. So I vote Dauntless and Ulysses. Imperator, Oberon and Furious Abyss are also pretty damn cool but less meaningful.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Greek or Norse mythology.

Odin, Hydra, Levianathan, valkyrie.

.....final fantasy characters?

Leviathan is form the bible. Fun little fact.

On topic I say Band Mascots. That is the only true and just way. What are you talking about I am not biased at all.

really? didnt know that. Guess I should have said kraken

Leviathan is a demonic form of Satan representing the sin of Envy. I would NOT name a ship after it. Thats just the worst luck ever. Might as well call it the SS EVILSATAN. Actually thats a little badass.

 

[Free Thinker]

Going to avoid cliches and names of ships that exist in games so, here I go!
...
USS Alien Diddler