What's In A Name? (CMDR Name Thread)

Shabine

Shabine
I've always been fascinated by the names people choose to go by online. In ED, I know that many commanders actually use their real names. In the case of Rubbernuke, I can only assume that he is, in fact, a rubber nuke, and that one day he will come bouncing gleefully toward me and explode in my face. A terrible fate, I know, but that's the risk you take when getting to know the denizens of Dangerous Discussion. Frankly, I'll have only myself to blame when it happens.

I've gone by Shabine for a while now. He's the main character in Derek Walcott's epic poem "The Schooner Flight", which is about a Caribbean sailor who spends his days running booze for corrupt government officials and being torn between his love for his family, the allure of the open sea, and his infatuation with a port town woman named Maria. The poem follows the general structure of the Divine Comedy; he sails through hell, purgatory and heaven in both the real world and his own mind, and in the end he finds salvation.

So, why did you choose the name you have? Does it mean something special to you, or was it just the result of a drunken midnight facerolling of your keyboard? (I am 100% guilty of having done this at least several times). Do you tend to use it everywhere online, or just here in Elite Dangerous?

Just curious. Thought some of you might enjoy sharing.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
I just today said it in another thread; I always have a hard time choosing names in games. I try to go for "normal", "realistic" names rather than those weird internet style pseudonyms.

So when I made my first Elite Dangerous account I just went through the cool characters from my favorite movies, and I got stuck with the east-german cab driver (played by Armin Müller-Stahl) from the New York segment of Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" (the one with Giancarlo Esposito). It is one of my top three all time favorite movies.

My other two commanders are named after Gene Hackman's character in Mississippi Burning (Rupert Anderson) and the guy from Monty Python's parking offense sketch with Cardinal Richelieu (Harold Larch).

I would never ever go with my real name on the internet. Never.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Helmut Grokenberger said:
the guy from Monty Python's parking offense sketch with Cardinal Richelieu (Harold Larch).
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... which by the way is one of the most brilliant sketches they did. Right after the cheese shop and the fish slapping dance.

Edit: I am an idiot. I linked the wrong sketch. The one with Cardinal Richelieu seems to have dissapeared completely from Youtube. it is on dailymotion though:
Source: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qgleh
 
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Shabine

Shabine
Helmut Grokenberger said:
So when I made my first Elite Dangerous account I just went through the cool characters from my favorite movies, and I got stuck with the east-german cab driver (played by Armin Müller-Stahl) from the New York segment of Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" (the one with Giancarlo Esposito). It is one of my top three all time favorite movies.
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From this day forward, it will be impossible for me to not picture this as what's going on in the cockpit of your ship. :LOL:

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SteveWW57 said:
Wanda Rinstaa = Wandering Star

Say it a couple of times.
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That's awesome. I really like it. Unique and memorable. ⭐
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
That was some time ago... yes, I'm also struggling with inventing names, so I took two that already were around in two nice books.
Ashnak is the general (sometimes, depending on the disposition of the Dark Lord) of the Orc marines from Mary Gentle's Grunts. A book that would probably be even more difficult to publish than it was in 1995 - these Orcs are doing everything that other armies don't even talk about. As my character, he's now retired and looking for something new out in the black. Like his skin, he uses green themed ships.
My other character, Azzie Elbub, is a demon from the writings of Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley. If you ever read a book from either of these two, you'll know that it only starts weird and gets stranger from there on. Sometimes he gets lucky, but all his genius moves are thwarted by the hellish beaurocracy. Which doesn't improve his mood. At those times, he's somewhat dissappointed that a Krait MK.II can only mount three Pacifiers. His ships and suits are red themed.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Helmut Grokenberger said:
I just today said it in another thread; I always have a hard time choosing names in games. I try to go for "normal", "realistic" names rather than those weird internet style pseudonyms.
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Same here.

In my case it was basically going through those "take the middle name of your second husband and add your most-visited rail interchange to get your CMDR name" methods until I got one which sounded a plausible name in its own right (though Frederick Welywn-Garden-City would have worked out alright if I'd been intending to play an Imperial, I guess)
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
I made up my CMDR's name a long time ago as a default name for game characters, so that I don't have to torture myself with this every single damn time. Yeah, not very imaginative. I wanted something that is somewhat gender neutral and could fit into a fantasy setting as well as into a scifi setting. To this day, I don't know if Lhorndra is supposed to be a first name or a last name.

My newly started alternate CMDR is called Stel Atana, because I was just reading Le Monde d'Edena by Mœbius, and those are the two main characters.
 

Rhaazerus Orzhov

Rhaazerus Orzhov
Been using the name Rhaazerus for a while with most online games or screen names.
I wanted something that was fitting and could work with most gameworlds and wasn't something like the usual "SmasherPotato300289" user name.
My CMDRs full name is Rhaazerus Antioch Orzhov
(Orzhov is a faction from the Magic the Gathering cards and I just sort of adopted it because I thought it had a nice sound to it.)
 

LifesAJourney

LifesAJourney
I had my music server set to random tracks while creating Frontier account and just when I was asked for a Cmdr name, Steven Tyler sang:

Life's a journey, not a destination
And I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings

The universe's perfect timing, I'd call it. :love:
 
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Sysmon

Sysmon
My "main" character since the original Alpha got going is from a book by Iain M. Banks that I re-read occasionally, despite the headache-inducing nature of many of its chapters (I mean, who comes up with writing phonetically in Scottish? Oh yeah, Banks of course). Bascule the Teller, the dyslexic Crypt diver of Feersum Enjinn. Hence my ED CMDR is Teller Bascule.

:D S
 

ubermick

ubermick
Gaz is my actual name. Well, nickname.

Ubermick was a tongue-in-cheek nickname I picked up over here in America, via a supposed friend who called me a "Dumb Mick" (pejorative term for an Irishman) all the time and a girl I was going out with who attempted to counter it. ("Don't listen to him, you're not a dumb Mick, you're a good Mick, you're a great Mick, you're... you're an uber Mick!")
 
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