It is actually even more annoying than the cockpit lighting as, to me, it looks as if it is the light from the holo display itself being reflected back through it.
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Awww, I wanna play the ship name game...
| Type | Name | Why? |
| AspX | Kiss My Shiny Metal As | Ran out of letters!!! |
| Imperial Cutter | Midlife Crisis | It's a massive overcompensation |
| Anaconda | Corrupting a Miner | Made me billions in Borann |
| Python | East Bound & Down | Smuggling ship (Smokey and the Bandit) |
| Krait MkII | Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden song |
| Mamba | Roisín Dearg | It's Irish, and it's stygian red |
| Imperial Eagle | Little Bird | Bob Marley song |
| Fer-de-Lance | Dillon's Dill do | Based on a build by the mighty @Dillon Fallon |
| Type 9 | Interstellar Bovine | Space Cow! |
| Diamondback Explorer | Starbug | Red Dwarf |
| Dolphin | Glorified Prius | Basic inexpensive runabout with no soul |
| Krait Phantom | Scoopex | Amiga group (Use it for materials gathering/salvage) |
| Alliance Chieftain | Surprise! You're Dead! | Faith No More song |
| Cobra Mk IV | Millennium Budgie | Star Wars reference, and with scorch paint it looks like a budgie? |
| Python | Bottom 1% | Passenger ship, certainly not the top 1% |
| Alliance Challenger | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Erm, has lots of multicannons |
| Federal Gunship | Fraggle Rock | All frag cannons, and flies like an absolute boulder |
| Anaconda | Colonia or Bust! | Jumpaconda with an 82ly range |
| Vulture | An Púca Dubh | Irish for black ghost. Coz its black. I suppose? |
| Federal Corvette | The Morrigan | Celtic goddess of war and death |
| Imperial Courier | Ferocious Langer | Cork slang for someone who's REALLY annoying |
| Imperial Courier | Almighty Gobshyte | Irish slang for someone who's REALLY annoying |
| Krait MkII | AX Ellen Ripley | Aliens - Salvation shards |
| Krait MkII | AX Vasquez | Aliens - All AX Multi scout hunter |
| Python | AX Hudson | Aliens - Rescue ship |
| Alliance Chieftain | AX Bishop | Aliens - Cold orbiter |
| Viper MkIV | Skerrit's Tache | Top Gun reference, played the instructor, callsign Viper. |
| Cobra Mk III | Old Reliable | I mean... it's old and it's reliable! |
| Imperial Clipper | Clippy | Helps you with Microsoft Word |
| Type 7 | Hari Kari Kabby | Passenger ship that exists to self destruct on the pad (BGS shenanigans) |
Don't bother clicking those links - they're all borked.
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@ubermick I recognise the first name which IIRC comes from either Star Wars Droids cartoon series or Futurama. 
I think the explanation for Fragile Rock might be considered insulting to boulders.
As for Clippy I had forgotten the recent derivation of MSWord and thought at first you were going for the old one of a female bus conductor.
I think the explanation for Fragile Rock might be considered insulting to boulders.
As for Clippy I had forgotten the recent derivation of MSWord and thought at first you were going for the old one of a female bus conductor.
Well, when I bought my Star Tumbler, I already had EDHM installed with turned down lights. I guess that's why I didn't notice it that much.
Yeah, boulders are quite fond of their "unstoppable force" movement...
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Great list! “Midlife Crisis” made me laff out loud the most - probably because it‘s closest to home
Mine has the same initials btw: “Mother Cutter” is perhaps overkill for an XL Tritium hauler, but it still recalls the grand old lady’s happiest hunting days - sometimes we still pick a station further than necessary, to add a bit of spice to the carrier refuelling grind… :]
I decided to name the Vulture "Scarabee".
Making a new series of Fraggle Rock, what goes around comes around!
Tell that to the auto(in)correct on my iPad.
I know the ducking feeling.
I do it all the time.
Whenever I go out to explore, I strip my Type 9 and put nothing but cargo holds in it. Then I fill it full of Tritium out of the hold and constantly refill the fuel hold and load more Tritium from the cargo hold into the Type 9 every few jumps as I go.
The reason I do this is: the lower your cargo usage, the lower the cost per jump is. So by the time I go out and back I save hundreds of tons of Tritium by doing it that way. And since there's really nothing to do for roughly 18 minutes (15 minute jump time plus 3 minute cooldown) it doesn't require any real extra effort.
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that one.
The end had me losing my headphones...
Yeah, makes you feel old...
My daughter's boyfriend came over yesterday because he took his Toyota Yaris in to have the brakes done and his emergency brake didn't work anymore.
So he gets here, we jack it up, it's got drum brakes on the rear and I sort of giggle. It was an easy fix - whoever did it didn't know how to set the auto adjuster. So I did that and he was good to go.
While doing it he was asking about the parts and I explained to him that drum brakes were actually pretty uncommon these days. He asked "how uncommon". I told him, "the last time I was working on drum brakes, it was on my 1969 Chevelle SS I had when I was 18.
He just stared at me with this blank look that said it all.