My F&D group just named their HWK-290 "The Soaring Leaf."

"Do you want spears in the chest?" I asked. "Because that's how you get spears in the chest."

My players renamed Krayt Fang to Olvi Bean... (There was bottle of Olvi beer and bottle of Jim Bean whiskey at table). So yeah, as a GM I usually try to name ships, unless PCs have good suggestions (usually they don't). I just try to keep naming in line on my part. But if PCs want to give name to something they own, I'll allow it, even if I think the name is stupid. I have a printed list from donjon's random generator ( Cyberpunk, netrunner handles ) for when I need a random name to something fast.

Levitating Manticore (YT-2400, PCs first ship in our old campaign)

Astarte (YZ-775, PCs second ship in our old campaign, also appears as the ship of a rebel NPC in our new campaign which takes place a bit earlier)

Guns in Roses (heavily modified YT-1300, with flower paint jobs surrounding the turrets)

Duchesse (MC80 Liberty Type Star Cruiser, captained by Commander Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley)

Sonic Boom (YG-4400, coincidentally piloted by Ru'ush the Chadra-Fan and Talis the Squib mechanic)

Kerberos (Star Destroyer, part research facility, part Sith laboratory, part crime against nature, all in all a bad time)

Rocking Rudy (Spacemaster Medium Transport)

'Rellian Runner (GR-75 Medium Transport, seems I'm not the only one with that idea)

Summsebiene, hard to translate, maybe Bumblebee? (YT-1000, PCs first ship in our new campaign)

The Wyyyshokk's Venom -a Firespray with a truly obnoxious colour scheme, named and painted by some kids I babysit

The Flame Ibbot -a YT freighter. It also goes by the Laughing Jubba Bird so we have a high profile and safe transponder codes.

The Final Say -a CR-90 corvette we stole from an Imperial recycling world. It was originally named the Last Word and we decided that was exactly the amount of taunting and plausible deniability that we operate under.

YT-2400: The Star Courser (the groups main ship)

A.K.A.: The Pride of Anobius (alternate transponder ID)

CIS Frigate: The Tax Deferred Asset (the ship we salvaged and gave to the Rebellion)

GX-1 Short Hauler: Paragon (my characters plot ship I crashed when we tagged out GMing for a season, my friend ran the Tax Deferred Asset story)

ETA-2 Interceptor: Johinuu Shade (Starfighter my character borrowed and is returning while I am running this season)

Pathfinder Scout ship: Exhortation (A ship that was appropriated by the hunter of the group and encouraged by the GM, me, to help with plot issues of travel. Likely going to cause a problem for my fellow GM)

I'd like to point out I only named the Paragon. The rest is my fellow GM and the players.

My group has had two YT-1300's. One of which has been stolen and they are currently tracking down.

The Lazy Lekku and the Mellow Lekku.

Obviously both named by the same Twilek smuggler...

Mu -2 class shuttle (stolen from an Inquisitor) name the Reckless Endeavour.

We also appropriated a Hutt pleasure-barge (a SoruSuub Luxury 3000 space yacht) called the Glorious Chariot , which we'll probably keep & re-name once we finish mucking out the stalls.

Imperial Ships I will name after Sectors, Systems, Planets, or Moons, depending on size, for simplicity.

Others, so far:

Black Hole, Enigma Gem, Far Horizon, Ironclaw, Roaring Krayt, Lucky Bastard, Corellian Delight, Bloodmoon (renamed Bloody Fool), Shade, Sleepwalker, Nechaska, Pagong, Longstrider, Vagabond, Despair, Jono's Revenge, Starburst, Strange Aeon, Twi'lek Dancer.

Not Star Wars, but I love this story. While playing Serenity afew years ago, the Captain named his Firefly "Rowena" after a old Celtic chieftans daughter. The crew hated it. Anyway the captain's player had to bow out due to schedule, so the first thing the crew did was rename the ship Oasis. Even better, the shuttles were Champagne and Supernova and the cargo mule was the Rumrunner.

Theyre Star wars ship is a mon cal Simiyiar called the Prophet , or Profit depending on who you ask.

Our crew's ship is a YT-2000 called the Azure Fortune . It's a collaboration between players at the start of the campaign. I thought up some ship names that I liked and presented them to the group. One of the names was Azure Spiral (there would be a blue spiral painted on the saucer) and one other player kind of liked it but didn't like the "spiral" part.

Mostly it was me and that other player who came up with it and the other players said it was fine. Which is fitting because the game's background is that my character stole it and the other character (a smuggler/pilot) flew it.

The in-game reason for the name is that after stealing the ship, we wanted to disguise it so we took it to a place that would detail it. Blue paint was the cheapest thing they had. It's not all blue, it just has a blue design on the top and some other ship details painted blue. Just enough that it looks like a different ship.

My signature Jedi character, Korath Lorren owns a modified CEC YZ-900 named the Jedi Star . The inspiration for that name came from the awesome anime Outlaw Star .

My bounty hunter owns a YT-1930 called Hunters Bounty

Our F&D groups ship is a YT-2400 - the Rising Light

My Smuggler had a YT-1300 - The Rogue's Gambit

Chow Chucker

Skipped a Beat

Flatliner

Flack Jacket

Stolen Goods

Slippery snot

Faster than You

The Veterans Revenge

Singer and Slinger

My group's captain named his YT-1300 the Piper Drive , because he was searching for his wife Piper who was sold into slavery (long story).

Now that he's found her...

The Cupid
The Kobayashi

The Orphan

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I was the GM for a long-running Star Wars game, and named the ship (which the players found in the second session) the SUNRISE CRUSADER. My original intention was that the ship had a number of different false IDs, all tied to the passage through the day, and that as the campaign progressed, they would be forced to "burn" the names and progress through others, so that by the time we got to the (relatively dark) end of the campaign, the would be using a night-themed name. Never got to put that into effect, although we did use one false ID - THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER - from time to time.

One major NPC ally, a pilot named Rush Hawkins, had a series of ships called THE HAWK, each with ah number stuck after it. He was notoriously for both crashing ships, then getting new ones.

In our current Firefly campaign (which uses the EotE rules set), the players' ship is the WANDERING SPIRITS. The PC captain named her, although it was after a discussion where we bounces back and forth a number of ideas. The name works on multiple levels, in that a) the captain herself is definitely a wandering spirit and probably more fiercely independent than Malcolm Reynolds, b) the crew makes their own brand of liquor, c) the ship has a side business as a mobile tavern, and c) "wandering spirits" captures the nature of the crew enough that it's now the campaign name.

My forum name was borrowed from an Incom Sleuth I flew around in a previous game.

Tend to name a lot of ships after songs. In the pulp adventure game I was running all the ships (which were air-and-sea-going 'age of fighting sail' vessels) were named after Iron Maiden songs, starting with the VOC Powerslave. (Yes, the Dutch East India Company was operating on an alien world in a 'sword-and-planet' adventure. It's complicated.) Left some good ones for the PCs, but they wouldn't play along, the dorks. Will probably go with more 90s references when I get my own Edge of Empire game started up: Throat Locust, Pennyroyal Tea, Touch Me I'm Sick, &c.

"She's One of Ours, Sir"? Isn't that a Culture name? You can always score points with your more well-read friends using those. Also, they're great names: https://qntm.org/culture

Edit: Oh craps, I forgot. In the upcoming game, I'm going to have a couple of Agamar boys show up in a Nova Courier emblazoned with a huge CIS symbol and sporting ridiculously overbuilt engines. It will be called the "General Grievous". It's incredibly lame, I know- but it made me laugh when I thought of it.

Couldn't use Culture names in Star Wars (though I could in most other games), personally, but they are wonderful.

My current groups pilot is a Chiss Big Game Hunter who has a YT-1200 she named The Wayfarer's Diamond.

First my group wanted to name their ship "Mett Igel", which is german for "pork hedgehog". After I asked them if they REALLY wanted their ship to be named like this they decided on "Mad Eagle" - which sounds the same...

My group started off with a YT-2000 and called it the Sitting Duck. Once they stole the Nightflyer (YT-2400 from Beyond the Rim) they sold the Duck off and renamed the Nightflyer the Quack of Dawn.

I think they have a thing about ducks...

I think they have a thing about ducks...

"Everyone thinks they're such sweet little things . . . "

_{I'm glad this thread made a comeback! I love hearing what others name their ships. I think it adds character to the ship and in many instances, the "Falcon" was a character in the story. Naming your ship and making it yours has your character invested in it and when the GM throws in quirks or setbacks for interesting gaming, it's great to give the ship tender loving care or smack it with a hydrospanner! I recently made an UGLY HWK-290 to be the Star Wars equivalent to an A-10 Thunderbolt II: not original, but I named it "Thunderbolt III". Also have a VT-49 Decimator named the "Rusty Rathtar".}

In the last campaign we played our ship was called The Caterwaul - named after the cat like shrill the engines made.

I was inspired for the name after hearing the song by ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead

In the pulp adventure game I was running all the ships (which were air-and-sea-going 'age of fighting sail' vessels) were named after Iron Maiden songs, starting with the VOC Powerslave.

I agree that song titles can be a great source of names. I’ve used freighters called “Rainbow in the Dark,” “Wayward Son,” “Fearless Reaper,” “Fire On High,” and “Bloody Well Right.”

For warships, look up names of former Royal Navy ships. You’ll get names like “Ardent,” “Inflexible,” “Javelin,” “Vendetta,” and “Stalwart.”