My ship names I try to make "meaningful" in some sense, at least to me, but they hardly send a message, or at least not a coherent one. It generally ends up as something slightly whimsical with a tiny pinch of the ship-naming trends in Iain M Banks Culture stories stirred in.
Naming the Asp "You Go First" is an obvious nod to Indiana Jones.
The thoughts behind the name of the T10 are equally obvious - "Fat Girls Can Dance"
The 'conda got named "Schwartzschild Radius" before I even bought it and the T9 that I no longer own but which did the trade runs to fund it was therefore named "Accretion Disk"
Calling the vulture anything other than "Keep Calm and Carrion" would have been silly.
The python is "Danger Noodle" - yes, I know, danger noodles are the venomous ones not constrictors like my own "Mr Noodle" (ball python) but the pythons in this game have plenty of hurt juice to hand out and with so many sneks in the ship types it would have been churlish to not name the python for MY python.
The 'vette is the most clearly "culture-derived" name - "Not A Negotiating Tool"
The FC's name, I'm afraid, only serves to identify me as a hippie and deadhead
"Box Of Rain"
ETA: and yes, if custom decals ever became a thig I woud swap out the "day-1 skull" everywhere I use it for Rosie in a heartbeat .
Naming the Asp "You Go First" is an obvious nod to Indiana Jones.
The thoughts behind the name of the T10 are equally obvious - "Fat Girls Can Dance"
The 'conda got named "Schwartzschild Radius" before I even bought it and the T9 that I no longer own but which did the trade runs to fund it was therefore named "Accretion Disk"
Calling the vulture anything other than "Keep Calm and Carrion" would have been silly.
The python is "Danger Noodle" - yes, I know, danger noodles are the venomous ones not constrictors like my own "Mr Noodle" (ball python) but the pythons in this game have plenty of hurt juice to hand out and with so many sneks in the ship types it would have been churlish to not name the python for MY python.
The 'vette is the most clearly "culture-derived" name - "Not A Negotiating Tool"
The FC's name, I'm afraid, only serves to identify me as a hippie and deadhead
"Box Of Rain"ETA: and yes, if custom decals ever became a thig I woud swap out the "day-1 skull" everywhere I use it for Rosie in a heartbeat .
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