TheDarkeldar said:
To show that someone more than Terminus Est has read the Books of the New Sun, my RT captains
The Flower of Avern
I like the idea of dueling with plants, and I have as part of the family history that they cultivate them. Would fighting with Averns be covered by primitive melee weapon (universal) skill or would I need specialized training. Can I get training free, as it is part of my RT's family history?
I LOVE the books of the New Sun. Great ship name.
The Hidden Agenda
- a ship for the blatantly shady
Caveat Emptor ( buyer beware-the Creed dynasty are well known for their grim sense of humour)
A few more ideas for particularly avaricous RTs:
The Eye of the Needle
Thrones' Servant
Tithe Evader
Favoured by Fortune
Some of the ones I often use have already been mentioned but here goes.
Chimera
Aggripa
Hector
Argo
Scippio
Victoria Victrix
Inviolable Retributin
Dawn Treder
Thunder child (only because of the War of the Worlds referrence)
Indeffatigable
Serenity
Lord Estrum
Drachenfels
I'm sure I could come up with more but most of mine come from other places.
My crew has christened their starship Our Father's Mercy in honor of the head of their Dynasty who is taking a big risk entrusting it to them.
One that sprang to mind during a conversation with a friend the other day:
Temple of Annihilation
6 pages of names and still no Memento Mori ? Cause it's always good to warn the opponent !
The "Permaneo Spes" or, the Last Hope.
Edith The Hutt said:
Tithe Evader
lulz
A deceptively fragile looking ship once you get down into its underlying superstructure does it show its ancient origins:
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
A nod to my fellow Traveller grognards,
Beowulf
and for my campaign,
The Golden Grox
The campaign I'm about to start; our ship is going to be called the Estruans Interius because I'm a giant fanboy.
Sun Shadow
Hidden Mirror
Sun Shard
I am a big fan of the "ominous latin name" school. Preferrably badly translated. The last time I was part of naming a ship it was dubbed Fasces Magna, wich roughly translates to Big Stick. With extra points for Fasces also meaning the sticks that ancient greek policemen carried in bundles around their axes to show that they were upkeeping law and order, and have as such given name to the political idea of fascism. So a big stick to point at the heretics that disturb the imperial law and order.
check out Seventh Sanctum, it has name generators for EVERYTHING there is. And pretty cool ones too
for starships go with the ship name generator:
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=shipnamer
or the Mecha Name Generator (I like those names better, although I just take the last part):
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=mechaname
My dear Explorers have named their ship "Wanderlust" ^^
I have a very useful book called "Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946" and I've taken a lot of names from there.
Ship names from there:
-Donostia (an old armed transport used by a pro-imperial faction during a civil war)
-Bizkaya (a system mining vessel converted into a moniter used by the same group as above)
-Guipozcoa (a system fast transport converted into a light raider by the same group)
-Miguel De Cervantes (a system cruiser for the other side)
-Escano (a light raider for the other side)
-Zacatecass (a gunboat for the other side (used heavy raider as hull base but cut down the speed and gave it an extra dorsal)
-Triton (an imperial navy Proteus class frigate)
-Glavkos (an imperial navy Proteus class frigate)
-Raqib (system defense boat, basically light raider with less speed)
-Palang (system defense boat as above)
-Yat Sen (system gunboat)
-Admiral Voroshilov (an imperial navy cruiser)
-Koln (Imperial navy light cruiser)
-Kongo (imperial navy battlecruiser)
-Tally Ho (merchant registry transport)
-Bathurst (merchant registry armed transport)
-Sir Kay (round table class free transport)
-Prodigal son (chartist vessel)
-Misoa (imperial navy landing ship)
-Ulster Queen (imperial navy landing command ship)
-Boxer (imperial navy landing ship)
-Penzance (Imperial navy sloop)
-Athene (Imperial navy aircraft transport)
-Adamant (imperial navy depo ship)
Names from other sources
-Serial Peacemaker
-Plaited Daisies
-Tunguska
-Camden Lock
My players command the Sword class frigate, "Xerxes"
My players named their Ship "Scarlet Sara" also name nicked name "Old Sara" among the crew or, praying to her when trying to make it out of ship to shipt combat, since they rolled Ancient and Wise.
The most venerable Murder-class cruiser Doomstrider plies the void of the Expanse...
...as well as being a model sitting on my desk to help track ship movement in combat.
The ships that currently make up the RT fleet in my groups game are
My Sword class frigate kursk
An experimental vessel the LionHeart
a havok class raider Reliant
and a dauntless LT crusier The Red Letter currently under reconstruction
<3 <3 <# Severian is my hero and is consequently the name of my RT even though he is not the same. That was a clever name for a ship... Flower of Avern. Gene Wolfe is such a good authour.
as long as my gm doesnt have a terrible fate befall it i will be christening a newly acquired soul cage(to be cleansed n such) 'Phoenix born'