Favorite Shipname

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2002-09-20 08:10pm

Alyeska wrote:I am wondering why no one else has chosen Enterprise. And before you say you don't like Star Trek or anything, my reason for choosing the name had nothing to do with Star Trek, more then half my ship name choices came from US navy ships. The Enterprise was the most decorated US ship of the war and saw the most action. I mean I see all these other ship names because of WW2 connections, seems every single ship except the Enterprise that is.

I dunno. It just sounds to American/corny to me.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-09-20 08:14pm

Eleas wrote:
Alyeska wrote:I am wondering why no one else has chosen Enterprise. And before you say you don't like Star Trek or anything, my reason for choosing the name had nothing to do with Star Trek, more then half my ship name choices came from US navy ships. The Enterprise was the most decorated US ship of the war and saw the most action. I mean I see all these other ship names because of WW2 connections, seems every single ship except the Enterprise that is.
I dunno. It just sounds to American/corny to me.

Well to be fair I would have to add these ships to my list.

Waterloo
Concordia
Concord
Yamato
Hood
Akagi
Churchill
DuGalle
Kiev
Kirov
Akula

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-20 08:51pm

I'd like to build a class of ultimate CGN's named:

Ebola Reston
Ebola Zaire
Ebola Sudan
Marburg
Entebbe

The ultimate flagship, which would lead this force, would be an upgrade of my Kirov II, its name

Mount Elgon

Anyone care to guess what book I just finished?

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-09-20 09:02pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:I'd like to build a class of ultimate CGN's named:

Ebola Reston
Ebola Zaire
Ebola Sudan
Marburg
Entebbe

The ultimate flagship, which would lead this force, would be an upgrade of my Kirov II, its name

Mount Elgon

Anyone care to guess what book I just finished?

Aye, and it is a very good book, and even scary considering that its entirely true.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-09-20 09:06pm

Alyeska wrote:Aye, and it is a very good book, and even scary considering that its entirely true.

And proving further that the best stories are true. Excellent book, borrowed it from my teacher and had returned it finished the next class.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-20 09:19pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Alyeska wrote:Aye, and it is a very good book, and even scary considering that its entirely true.
And proving further that the best stories are true. Excellent book, borrowed it from my teacher and had returned it finished the next class.

The first time I heard of its was when my High school biology teacher, also former US Army medical tech and virus nut decide that he was going to read some chapters of it to the class while we studied virus.. The descriptions of many things and his additional side commentary, did not go over well with some people, and the class was right after lunch..

I soon after obtained a copy for me self, and recently decided to reread it.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-20 09:24pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:
Alyeska wrote:Aye, and it is a very good book, and even scary considering that its entirely true.
And proving further that the best stories are true. Excellent book, borrowed it from my teacher and had returned it finished the next class.
The first time I heard of its was when my High school biology teacher, also former US Army medical tech and virus nut decide that he was going to read some chapters of it to the class while we studied virus.. The descriptions of many things and his additional side commentary, did not go over well with some people, and the class was right after lunch..

I soon after obtained a copy for me self, and recently decided to reread it.

I forgot to add, the bio class was also at a time when there was an Ebola outbreak actively going on in east Africa, killing hundreds.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-09-20 10:07pm

In MoO (Original) When you actually had to reduce the population before invading (It was your colonists vs thiers (So Xenocide actually paid off) I made a Ship loaded with population killers, called the "Bosnia class"

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-09-21 05:10am

Alyeska wrote:I am wondering why no one else has chosen Enterprise. And before you say you don't like Star Trek or anything, my reason for choosing the name had nothing to do with Star Trek, more then half my ship name choices came from US navy ships. The Enterprise was the most decorated US ship of the war and saw the most action. I mean I see all these other ship names because of WW2 connections, seems every single ship except the Enterprise that is.

True, but rather go with Ticonderoga or Valle Forge for American Naval type thing. Can also go with Trafalga or Jutland for and English. So many battles to choose from to name ships.

Admiral Griffith · Post by **Admiral Griffith** » 2002-09-21 09:18am

In no particular order:

GCV Funny, It Worked Last Time...
SCSD Sovreign
SSD Executor
ESD Eclipse
USD Angelfire
USD Hell's Arsenal
USD Prometheus
USD Devastator
USD Grim Reaper

more later, i just have to think of them.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-09-21 10:20am

Enterprise was also the name of an HMS explorer ship, before it became an American Aircraft Carrier. It is also the name of the Space Shuttle prototype.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-09-22 05:28am

The Wild Karrde

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-09-22 08:21pm

I thought of another one, also from Andromeda. The Balance of Judgement

Don't like the way the ship looks though.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-09-22 09:15pm

Too many, too many.

Real Life, Bismark
Fiction Red October
Science Fiction Iron Fist

Then there's the one I had for the Star Wars rpg I was in, where I had an MC-90 class cruiser named 'Defier', VSD 'Rising Victory', and the ISD 'Dimensia'. oooh, what a task force.