What is the name of your exploration ship?

[Tom Areani]

I like to name all my ships, vehicles, guns, etc., be they virtual, OR real. Hell, I even named my crew's Humvee (I'm a Cav Scout in the US Army) Clarrissa, after an old nickelodeon show I used to watch (I had a crush on the main character back when I was a kid).

As for Elite, my Diamondback Explorer was called "Elon's Musk". But my new ship, the Asp X, is called "Golden Apples", a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Golden Apples of the Sun", a sci fi short story about a ship captain commanding a super-cooled spaceship specifically designed to fly close to the sun to steal some of the sun's fire, which, is pretty much exactly what we do when fuel scooping, so it seemed appropriate.

What about you, fellow explorers?

 

[Fanghur Rahl]

My main exploration ship is my 51ly/jump Asp Explorer, which I chose to christen 'Ranyhyn', after the Great Horses of Ra in Stephen R. Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' series.

 

[Aura Lorell]

I fly Aurora.

 

[GJ51]

CV 64

 

[Stupid_hippy]

My exploraconda is the 'Black end of nowhere' with the black friday paintjob of course.

 

[CMDR Ahab]

Orca - Moby Richard
DBX - Roach

 

[Zieman]

My trusty old Asp is called 'Lostpath Wayfarer'

 

[duckofdeath]

My Anaconda is the Tye Tanik.
No iceberg disasters yet....

 

[Jitkaas]

My AspX is called Event Horizon II, after my infatuation with discovering black holes. The Event Horizon I perished in an unfortunate accident with a 4g planet.....

 

[Fanghur Rahl]

My AspX is called Event Horizon II, after my infatuation with discovering black holes. The Event Horizon I perished in an unfortunate accident with a 4g planet.....

Discovered any portals to 'Hell' yet?

 

[Tom Areani]

Hmm....

Wouldn't "Stone and Sea" have been more appropriate? Or perhaps "Wayfarer's Gem"? No, wait, I've got it! PAR-PIM (permanence at rest, permanence in motion)....

#nicetomeetafellowcovenantfan

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

My Anaconda explorer is called the 'Terra-Nova'. She got me to Beagle point and back on DWE and will be used on the Dead Ends Circumnavigation exped in mid September 3303.

 

[Jitkaas]

Discovered any portals to 'Hell' yet?

I did jump into a 3 star system where the 3 stars were roughly 20-30 lys apart. Pretty sure my ship was closer to a liquid state than solid state by the time I flew out of there.

 

[Fanghur Rahl]

Hmm....

Wouldn't "Stone and Sea" have been more appropriate? Or perhaps "Wayfarer's Gem"? No, wait, I've got it! PAR-PIM (permanence at rest, permanence in motion)....

#nicetomeetafellowcovenantfan

Hey, I hadn't thought of that! Wayfarer's Gem does have a nice ring to it!

#nicetomeetafellowcovenantfan

 

[Captain Willard]

"The Wanderer" To much fallout 4.

 

[GunnerBill]

Dolphin - Nostalgia for Infinity
Anaconda - The Bride of the Winds

 

[Fanghur Rahl]

Hmm....

Wouldn't "Stone and Sea" have been more appropriate? Or perhaps "Wayfarer's Gem"? No, wait, I've got it! PAR-PIM (permanence at rest, permanence in motion)....

#nicetomeetafellowcovenantfan

Though for the record, it was actually 'Starfare's Gem". lol.

 

[Corbin Moran]

´Stray Bird´ - and that AspX has strayed far indeed

My first exploration vessel was the ´Sirocco´ - a CobraMk3 named in honour of the starting station in Frontier Elite II

 

[Tom Areani]

Though for the record, it was actually 'Starfare's Gem". lol.

Oops. You right.

But I have the ULTIMATE covenant reference, exploration related ship name: "THE ARDENT"

Spoiler warn, in case you haven't read the last two books, but, if you remember, "The Ardent" was a member of The Insequent, and his WHOLE THING was going to places people hadn't been to before, although, he also had a serious fear of "the deep places of the earth"...

 

[CMDR INFRATEK]

Dave