This is so amazing, thank you so much! I should be able to spend some time at the weekend using them to see if I can bag myself some Wolves.
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I've added a random ship name generator, with built-in profanity checker to try to detect some of those weird cases where the in-game filter flags ship names that it really shouldn't. I can't say how accurate the checker is, but it does catch some known cases.
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I got "Queen Elizabeth's Reasoning". I was not ready for that. 
I got "Queen Elizabeth's Reasoning". I was not ready for that.
LOL. Yeah, I started adding a bunch of names after thinking about some historical ships, like Blackbeard's "Queen Anne's Revenge".
Good idea. I have a few generic things like Federal and Imperial, but the names would be good too.
EDIT: "Aromatic Defiance" ... LOL, I don't even want to know how that would work.
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Oh man, this reminds me, a little while back I got on the bandwagon of feeding random things into neural nets. Here's a sample of what I get back when I feed part of the DW2 roster into GPT2:
Hearst Aries
Bravus Ironhand
Black Isle Traveler
SPO Melchior
Team Mercury
Hululun Zepsilon
Zinoth Black Hammer
Legion Y
Black Isle Traveler
SPO Melchior
Team Mercury
Hululun Zepsilon
Zinoth Black Hammer
Legion Y
MAC Obelisk
Reaver
I haven't toyed with neural nets to do this sort of thing, but as far back as the '90s I used to play around with Markov Chains to do random text, which can work surprisingly well for being such a simple rule set. The name generator on the website isn't anything that fancy, it just has lists of adjectives and nouns, and choses "adj noun" or "noun noun" pairings at random.
I know, it's remarkable how far this sort of thing has come just in the time I've been around!
Just a suggestion, a few more patterns that might yield fun names:
"noun preposition noun"
"prep adj noun"
And of course "adverb verb-ing" can substitute anywhere an adjective is used, although outside of "adv verb-ing noun" those are probably going to be too long.
Yeah, I may add some more patterns. One I'm also considering is "adv adj", which would work well enough in most cases, I think.
Favorite ship name so far: "WORST CASE ISLAND"
I think next year I may give the GalMap Santa some jumponium so that his journey can be compressed into a smaller number of days. 25 days with 4% progress each is probably a bit too long. I think EDSM's map only runs santa for about 10 or 12 days, so I may do something like that in the future.
I'm considering this to be a bit of a trial run, but I've added large dumps for planet types in the spreadsheets section. Some of them are quite huge, so they're all ZIP compressed, and I've left out parent / star information, since those drastically slow down the extraction and also significantly increase the file sizes. I've set the extraction process to run twice a month for these. They should cover all of the planet types that aren't already getting their own full extractions in other spreadsheets.