Best Ship Names in your experience Part 2

[plop101]

Jame writes:

Hey! He didn't put any of mine up there! Boo! BOO!

I'd go over the list again. I thought none of mine got in the first time, but when I checked it again I saw they found there way into different catagories.

eg. my Type S Scout Shinarrow Vulcan was listed as Navy.

Iron Hills and Girls Best Friend (Type J's) were listed as Merchants.

Not really a big deal though. I could see the ole Shinarrow being in the navy. And Belters are a kind of merchant. No foul. Play on.

And now, some IMTU ship names:

6 Wind Strike Cruisers:
Divine Wind
East Wind
Sirocco
Typhoon
Tornado
Starwind

8 Fer-De-Lance Destroyer Escorts:
Black Mamba
Cotton Mouth
Spitting Cobra
Anaconda
Copperhead
Pit Viper
Garter
Whipsnake

More as I think of them...

 

[kaladorn]

Gambling gives us lots of options.
1) Snake Eyes!
2) Baby needs a new pair of Shoes!
3) Aces Up
4) Double Up
5) The Gut-Shot Straight Draw
6) The Belly Straight Draw
7) The Full Boat (nice double meaning possible here)
8) The Stacked Deck
9) Aces and Eights
10) The Royal Sampler (the hand that looks good, but ends up being worth nothing)
11) Nineteen Hand
12) The One-Eyed Jack
13) The Suicide King
14) The Man With The Axe
15) Aces and Little Ones
16) Going All In
17) Up The Ante
18) Know When To Hold 'Em
19) Know When To Fold 'Em
20) Know When to Walk Away
21) Know When To Run (4 ships of a type)
22) The Wild Card
23) The River Rat (for Texas Holdem players)
24) The High Chicago (or Detroit, etc)
25) The No-Limit Winner
26) Sabacc? Never heard of it. How do you play?
27) The Lando
28) The Rounder
29) The Pit-Boss
30) The Big Blind
31) The Boxed Card
32) Dealing From The Bottom
33) The No Tell
34) The Poker Face
35) Fifty-Two Pickup
36) Joker's Wild
37) Between The Sheets
38) Smith And Wesson Beats Four Aces
39) The Side Bet
40) The Luck of the Draw
41) The Luck of the Deal
42) Spin That Wheel
43) The Loaded Dice
44) The Big Payoff
45) Going Alone
46) Euchred!
47) The Hole Card
49) Ace-in-the-Hole
50) The Joker Ain't The Only Fool

That's just the ones that come to mind, following a gambling theme, which most Free traders would be if I believe most economic analysis we've seen lately.

 

[Chuck Anumia]

How about "Three Card Monte"?

 

[GypsyComet]

Then there was the list of baked goods from last year on the TML, when someone opined that Type S ships looked like slices of pie. My current campaign still flies a ship named from that list...

 

[Vanguard]

I made a quicky XLS spreadsheet with most of the names in this thread. It also will pick names at random for you.

It's in the fLibrary under spreadsheets.

 

[kaladorn]

Vanguard, are you sure? I went looking for the spreadsheet. I see 5 in the flibrary, and none of them looks like what you've described.... ????

 

[Vanguard]

Maybe you were having a caching problem, or maybe it just didn't go through right away.

In any case, here's the link:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/file/pfile.pl?action=view&itemid=108&h=&s=

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Here is the Cap’n Slappy method of choosing your ships name:
What was your first pet’s name? What animal do you WISH your pet had been? Placing “The” before the name of one’s ship is optional – but it does say to the world, “Thar be only ONE o’ these!!
We will use the first letter of your first pets name to determine the first word in your ship’s name:
• A – Avenging
• B – Bodacious
• C – Capacious
• D – Deleterious
• E – Ebullient
• F – Frightening
• G – Grappling
• H – Hellacious
• I – Ignominious
• J – Jiggly
• K – Kookiest
• L – Lambasted
• M – Misanthropic
• N – Non sequitur
• O – Obsequious
• P – Prophylactic
• Q – Quilted
• R – Rambunctious
• S – Sadistic
• T – Turbulent
• U – Unknowable
• V – Vivacious
• W – Withered
• X – Xenophobic
• Y – Yucky
• Z – Zoological
And we will use first letter of the animal you which your pet had been to determine your ship’s last name.
• A – Aardvark
• B – Bandleader
• C – Cadaver
• D - Disaster
• E – Epicurean
• F – Fancy Lad
• G – Groper
• H – Hazard
• I – Imp
• J – Jazz Listener
• K – Kipper
• L – Lizard
• M – Madness
• N – Naysayer
• O – Opportunist
• P – Platypus
• Q – Quizmaster
• R – Rejection
• S – Sauerkraut
• T – Trauma Counselor
• U – Uber Frau
• V – Vixen
• W – Wonder
• X – Extrapolator
• Y – Yoke
• Z – Zipper

Here is an alternate list of names:
• A – Avaricious
• B – Brawny
• C – Conservative
• D – Depraved
• E – Eerie
• F – Fierce
• G – Galactic
• H – Heinous
• I – Immutable
• J – Jaunty
• K – Kedged
• L – Languid
• M – Misconceived
• N – Nobel
• O – Opprobrium
• P – Parlous
• Q – Quantifiable
• R – Riotous
• S – Salacious
• T – Tarnished
• U – Ulterior
• V – Venerated
• W – Walloping
• X – Xenolithic
• Y – Youthful
• Z – Zestful
Choose the second half of your crafts name
• A – Adventurer
• B – Brogue
• C – Carnivore
• D - Disaster
• E – Exhibitionist
• F – Fantasy
• G – Goshawk
• H – Hens bane
• I – Inculpate
• J – Jaguar
• K – Kibutznic
• L – Lecher
• M – Maiden
• N – Nuisance
• O – Octoroon
• P – Prelate
• Q – Quinsy
• R – Risible
• S – Shibboleth
• T – Turpitude
• U – Usurper
• V – Vulpine
• W – Wild Cat
• X – Xenophobic
• Y – Yogi
• Z – Zouave

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Ummm, is there an animal we would wish for a pet that starts with "X"? :? I do like this, though, Preacherman: Xenophobic Vixen, Grappling Hazard, Ignominious Jazz....

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Oooh! And, Heinous Maiden, Salacious Shibboleth (nice alliteration!), Languid Exhibitionist (?!)....

 

[SanDragon]

Prophylactic Disaster?!?!?

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Well, SanDragon, I wasn't going to go there, but I noticed that one, too....

 

[Chuck Anumia]

1) Avaricious Maiden
2) Avenging Trauma Counselor
3) Brawny Wild Cat
4) Bodacious Vixen
5) Conservative Exhibitionist
6) Capacious Opportunist
7) Depraved Yogi
8) Deleterious Epicurean
9) Eerie Brogue
10) Ebullient Groper
11) Fierce Nuisance
12) Frightening Platypus
13) Galactic Adventurer
14) Grappling Disaster
15) Heinous Carnivore
16) Hellacious Cadaver
17) Immutable Lecher
18) Ignominious Zipper
19) Jaunty Prelate
20) Jiggly Uber Frau
21) Kedged Fantasy
22) Kookiest Aardvark
23) Languid Goshawk
24) Lambasted Quizmaster
25) Misconceived Risible
26) Misanthropic Naysayer
27) Nobel Octoroon
28) Non Sequitur Extrapolator
29) Opprobrium Kibutznic
30) Obsequious Jazz Listener
31) Parlous Quinsy
32) Prophylactic Hazard
33) Quantifiable Disaster
34) Quilted Kipper
35) Riotous Usurper
36) Rambunctious Imp
37) Salacious Inculpate
38) Sadistic Fancy Lad
39) Tarnished Vulpine
40) Turbulent Madness
41) Ulterior Turpitude
42) Unknowable Rejection
43) Venerated Hens bane
44) Vivacious Lizard
45) Walloping Jaguar
46) Withered Yoke
47) Xenolithic Shibboleth
48) Xenophobic Wonder
49) Youthful Xenophobic
50) Yucky Sauerkraut
51) Zestful Zouave
52) Zoological Bandleader

 

[hirch duckfinder]

mine is not there either; the famous merchant ship owned by Phil Leaf - The Japanese Bird!

 

[Jame]

The Flowering Antlion.

 

[archhealer]

Using the pet name/type method, I got Deleterious Disaster. I love it.

A few ship names from my players (We're still in the beginning stages of running our first full-fledged traveller game).

Nova Cheval
Ascendant Angel
High Card
Bubble Butt (A spherical merchant ship)
Falling Hardways
Spin Breaker
Lookin' Up
Darkening
Where Are We
Still Flying

 

[Virus]

NDG, short for "NO DAMN GOOD"

. That´s what one of my characters named the PCs Far Trader after he saw it for the first time (actually he hijacked it from the nickname of a character in one of the C.J. Cherryh novels) .

 

[archhealer]

*Massive eye roll*
My girlfriend, who I've convinced to play, see the 'Mounts: Horses, pseudosaurs?' thread, just named her yacht "My other pretty pony". YEs, she's a spoiled brat of a noble.

 

[wordserpent]

Originally posted by Archhealer:
*Massive eye roll*
My girlfriend... just named her yacht "My other pretty pony". YEs, she's a spoiled brat of a noble.

Brilliant!

Try these on for size:

Merchants:
System Drifter
Far Wanderer
The Stars Are Right (for you H.P. Lovecraft fans)
Quetzalcouatl
Hulk-Duller
Piece O' Crap
Calamity
Space-Barnacle

Seekers:
Scent Of Lanthanum
Digger

Mercenaries:
Star Striker
Fortune of War

Corsairs:
Invidious
Ravager
Reaver
Black Hole
Merciless
No Quarter

Yachts:
Money Pit
The Other Woman


Vargr (translated from Gvegh):
Pleasant Odour
Juicy Haunch
Mange
Breathing-down-your-neck
Hot Persuit


K'Kree (translated from whatever it is they speak):

Wanderers Of The Vast Steppe And The Limitless Sky (merchant)

Swift Ones That Outrun The Hunters (merchant)

They that Grow Fat On Their Profits And Have Many In Their Entourage (merchant)

The Conveyance that will bring Prosperous Trade Or Victory In Battle (Merchant Cruiser)

The Saviors From the Ravenous Eaters Of Flesh (Naval Vessel)
The Horns and Hooves Of The Heroic Defenders (naval vessel)

The Seeker Of New Pastures and Grazing lands For The Children Of The Great Herd (scout ship)

Droyne:
Grandfather's Dream
Lucky Coyne
The Strength Of Six
He Shall Reclaim Us
Gift Of The Elders

 

[Redleg58]

Yachts:
The Other Woman

LOL My real life boat gets a new name!