Not sure a refining platform qualifies as a "scow" -- M-Class star freighter, "Forty-two million in adjusted dollars. That's minus payload, of course." Sounds like a bargain!
Horrible Ship Names
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My ships name speaks for itself.
All my ships have had the prefix "J's" because of Robert Jannyx, first of the star-travelers in the Jannyx family, who had the nickname "J" in the pre-Federation Terran Fleet because he looked so much like Will Smith. CMDR Karla Jannyx is his great-great-great granddaughter, pilot of J's Sojourner, and the first in the family to leave the human-space bubble.
It does in fact have all 3, though most of the swearing is in Mandarin.Okay will look into that sometime.... btw does it have violence, bad language and occasional nudity? It's just that I like HBO series like Sopranos and GOT.....
I think it's called the Event Horizon.
I thought that was too obvious..... well that's an excuse to watch it again! Shame they cut that movie so much, then lost all the cuts (nearly an hour of scenes. Ah, movie studios, not run by the most brilliant of minds methinks!). Apparently they had to remove a lot of stuff that was too gruesome! Would love to have seen the uncut version.....It does in fact have all 3, though most of the swearing is in Mandarin.
I think it's called the Event Horizon.
Trust me if you play elite find a cheap DVD of firefly and watch it - it's the best thing Joss Whedon did before avengers
Never watched Firefly, but think i've watched Serenity like 5 or 6 times
Anyway, my ship names are all over the place. From my daughter's dog name to books, cartoon and movie characters and then to greek mythology with the odd beer package name slipped in-between (have a sidewinder and a hauler both named 6-pack)
Anyway, my ship names are all over the place. From my daughter's dog name to books, cartoon and movie characters and then to greek mythology with the odd beer package name slipped in-between (have a sidewinder and a hauler both named 6-pack)
Haha, I've got one on the right side. I literally look exactly like my CMDR IRL, needed to have some point of difference.
Hmm, ship names. I actually think naming them after sci-fi ships is a cool idea, but I don't. Here are some of mine:
A Little Curiosity (my Sidey)
Boomerang Star (Cobra Mk3, named after a sci-fi ship now that I think about it, hehe)
Carrion Roc (Vulture)
Migrant Sparrow (Clipper)
Hunting Heron (Courier)
Iron Hammerhead (Krait Mk2)
Silver Sailfish (Beluga)
Prismatic Pangolin (Challenger)
Clever Anansi (AspX)
Quicksilver Falcon (iEagle)
Fullmetal Monitor (FGS)
Vermilion Huntress (Mamba)
And from a different movie too... (the sequel to be precise). The troop carrier in Aliens was Sulaco, iirc.
Whenever it comes to names... i always make stuff up... ships, characters, whatever, but the probs aren't unique by any measure.
Krait MK 2: Fury
Imperial cutter: defiant
Anaconda: Interjector
Asp E: nautilus
Pythons: Jacka, Jaguar, Vigilant, PyTaxi
EDIT: I once had the unfortunate luck of drawing up a character for a mates D&D campaign... selected a build, drew up a fairly complex backstory and everything... showed it to my mate who said "... isn't that just one of the example characters from the player handbook?"
Sure enough, with the exception of a couple minor attributes, I'd come up with a sample character from the book... race, class, religion, backstory, even the name. All the same.
Krait MK 2: Fury
Imperial cutter: defiant
Anaconda: Interjector
Asp E: nautilus
Pythons: Jacka, Jaguar, Vigilant, PyTaxi
EDIT: I once had the unfortunate luck of drawing up a character for a mates D&D campaign... selected a build, drew up a fairly complex backstory and everything... showed it to my mate who said "... isn't that just one of the example characters from the player handbook?"
Sure enough, with the exception of a couple minor attributes, I'd come up with a sample character from the book... race, class, religion, backstory, even the name. All the same.
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The ship in Event Horizon (excepting the titular ship that goes into Warpspace) is the Lewis & Clark.
One of the worst creative crimes is to be derivative*, and so I use http://shipnames.iainmnorman.com/ to name my ships.
*Other opinions are available.
One of the worst creative crimes is to be derivative*, and so I use http://shipnames.iainmnorman.com/ to name my ships.
*Other opinions are available.
I was ganked once by a muppet in "Auschwitz Express". Makes you wonder what FDev's watch......
