Some Starship Names
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Amber Chancer
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My favourite was one which I saw for real on a cabin cruiser on the Great Ouse in Ely:
Never Again II :rofl:
Never Again II :rofl:
As a foreshadowing of the Brotherhood of the Rose theme (the captain was a Solomani infant raised as a Zhodani, placed as a spy with a Solomani cover in the Imperium), the ship was the Wayward Son. When they changed ships, the new one was the Rising Son, and their shuttle was the Tears of the Son. The Solomani terrorists they transported intended to rename it the Rising Sol, but the hijacking was thwarted.
Now that they've been burned, they're afraid of any ship with that theme, like the Fortunate Son, that might be one of their still-loyal counterparts still in Zhodani service...
Now that they've been burned, they're afraid of any ship with that theme, like the Fortunate Son, that might be one of their still-loyal counterparts still in Zhodani service...
Now the ship is registered as Mnemosyne (Greek goddess of memory) after their naturally born AI (unshelded exposure to the Cymbeline Cthon, leading to a natural form of Virus). They've just learned that their AI is contagious, causing a Nolikkian to shoot it's way out of the yards. Fortunately, no-one else has connected the dots yet...
We played a series of adventures at local Game Conventions here in Memphis throughout the year. We had an armed 200 ton Free Trader and we were doing anti-pirate ops. I was able to talk the group into using my idea for a ship name. My idea was to stay with a theme of Mythological/Historical Heroes a la Free Trader Beowulf.
My idea, since we are in Memphis, was the Free Trader Menes.
My idea, since we are in Memphis, was the Free Trader Menes.
In my campaigns:
Star Coffin: Armed Far Trader. Has lost nearly all its crew twice.
Sisyphus: Starmerc 880 dton ship in HT Campaign. So renamed after realizing any anti-pirate sweep was only a temporary measure, as pirates returned soon after it left the area.
Star Coffin: Armed Far Trader. Has lost nearly all its crew twice.
Sisyphus: Starmerc 880 dton ship in HT Campaign. So renamed after realizing any anti-pirate sweep was only a temporary measure, as pirates returned soon after it left the area.
In my campaign, the players are trying to reach their ship "The Dust Witch", a Fanzhienz Armed Far Trader:
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campa...ier/wikis/the-dust-witch-fanzhienz-far-trader
Uploaded the pdf here:
http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showpost.php?p=416947&postcount=8
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campa...ier/wikis/the-dust-witch-fanzhienz-far-trader
Uploaded the pdf here:
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madmike
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Just to add to my earlier post.
IMV Razorback, Type A3Lc Far Trader - Captain Zaphod "Zaph"
Operating out of Trin, Trin's Veil subsector, Spinward Marches.
Chartered to Barachai Technum
IMV Merchanter's Gift, "Fat" Trader - Captain Markus Farradaye
Operating out of Trin, Trin's Veil subsector, Spinward Marches.
IMV Elina Erchai, Chartered Type A3L Far Trader - Captain Lindii Meringhall
Operating out of Trin, Trin's Veil subsector, Spinward Marches.
Chartered to Barachai Technum
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darkmentat
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One of my fav's is from the Star Wars EU. Talon Karde's Bulk Frieghter that is heavily modified "Wild Karde"
My free traders (in a Serenity game) flew in the Alfred E. Neumann, but the wanted to buy a fake transponder for Sky King.
When they wanted to go privateer, they bought some (highly illegal) stealth gear and a coat of radar-absorbing black paint, and referred to the whole thing as the engineer's Little Black Dress.
When they wanted to go privateer, they bought some (highly illegal) stealth gear and a coat of radar-absorbing black paint, and referred to the whole thing as the engineer's Little Black Dress.
bromdenlong
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Damijwhe - Don't ask me, I just work here. She was an Avian class free trader.
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CosmicGamer
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cruise_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starfleet_starships_ordered_by_class
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_in_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004)
Many titles of Red Dwarf episodes make good ship names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_episodes
as would Stargate and probably other sci fi shows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Stargate_episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cruise_ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starfleet_starships_ordered_by_class
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_in_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004)
Many titles of Red Dwarf episodes make good ship names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_episodes
as would Stargate and probably other sci fi shows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Stargate_episodes
Extract from: Starships and Starfools, memoir of a steward
“Yes sir, I understand that you were unhappy to have a mouse intruding on your sleep the last time you were on high passage on board our ship the Empress Lucy. Indeed sir, calling such a ship an Empress liner did create perception problems amongst the passengers that expected better. This is the reason why the owner since then renamed it Lucky Lucy. He prefers stressing that this ship always bring its passengers to port safely, even it relies on luck rather than maintenance.”
Extract from: Starships and Starfools. (Memoir of a steward)
“Yes sir, I understand that you were unhappy to have a mouse intruding on your sleep the last time you were on high passage on board our ship the Empress Lucy. Indeed sir, calling such a ship an Empress liner did create perception problems amongst the passengers that expected better. This is the reason why the owner since then renamed it Lucky Lucy. He prefers stressing that this ship always bring its passengers to port safely, even it relies on luck rather than maintenance.”
Extract from: Starships and Starfools. (Memoir of a steward)
sayatmenace
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It's been a long while since I played 4reelz, but three names come to mind:
* False Profit -- a free? far? trader crewed by a mix of ex-believers and chronic depressives. Naturally they always seem to come out slightly ahead of the PCs...
* Empress Marilyn -- a far trader crewed by, and accepting passengers only among, Marilyn Monroe impersonators. All male, including the Vargr navigator. (For awkward working passage/paid passage interludes.)
* Rainbow Starlake Wonderwheel -- an old big K'Kree disk-shaped merchant, refitted for the comfort of the tweaky, trip trip triptrippy hippie-raver-pervo human crew who now operate it as a tramp merchant. Or rather, in the interest of accuracy, as a mercantile tramp. Its hydroponics are of course totally macrobiotic Kirillian-certified organic and... diverse. Its workshops can tune zuchai crystals and build nuclear-damper-boosted grav-propelled power bongs at the same time. There are twenty hot tubs and five different chill rooms. At the very center of the ship is a pool in which lives a dolphin (a Star Dolphin!!!) that may or may not be powerfully psionic. The ship's L/S system is so ▮▮▮▮ed up that its waste products are 0.5% MDMA by mass. With relatively negligible operating costs, they tend to show up to screw PCs out of profitable trade deals, and of course try just to screw them as well. Why so uptight, brother? You don't "want" to??? Oh crazy man. Take a pill and you will! Etc.
Perhaps the reason I don't actually play Traveller much any more is the glee I took in making the average/typical/stereotypical Traveller player feel uncomfortable...
EDIT: And I just remembered -- though I never used it, I was a big fan of Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals, and have always wanted to work into a Traveller game (perhaps as a ship's boat of some sort) the unwieldy, garish, and dutiful vessel under the name of the Boodle-Bumtrinket.
* False Profit -- a free? far? trader crewed by a mix of ex-believers and chronic depressives. Naturally they always seem to come out slightly ahead of the PCs...
* Empress Marilyn -- a far trader crewed by, and accepting passengers only among, Marilyn Monroe impersonators. All male, including the Vargr navigator. (For awkward working passage/paid passage interludes.)
* Rainbow Starlake Wonderwheel -- an old big K'Kree disk-shaped merchant, refitted for the comfort of the tweaky, trip trip triptrippy hippie-raver-pervo human crew who now operate it as a tramp merchant. Or rather, in the interest of accuracy, as a mercantile tramp. Its hydroponics are of course totally macrobiotic Kirillian-certified organic and... diverse. Its workshops can tune zuchai crystals and build nuclear-damper-boosted grav-propelled power bongs at the same time. There are twenty hot tubs and five different chill rooms. At the very center of the ship is a pool in which lives a dolphin (a Star Dolphin!!!) that may or may not be powerfully psionic. The ship's L/S system is so ▮▮▮▮ed up that its waste products are 0.5% MDMA by mass. With relatively negligible operating costs, they tend to show up to screw PCs out of profitable trade deals, and of course try just to screw them as well. Why so uptight, brother? You don't "want" to??? Oh crazy man. Take a pill and you will! Etc.
Perhaps the reason I don't actually play Traveller much any more is the glee I took in making the average/typical/stereotypical Traveller player feel uncomfortable...
EDIT: And I just remembered -- though I never used it, I was a big fan of Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals, and have always wanted to work into a Traveller game (perhaps as a ship's boat of some sort) the unwieldy, garish, and dutiful vessel under the name of the Boodle-Bumtrinket.
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WarriorKnight
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Ships from our Pirate game
The No Mo Joe (Not Pirate name)
The Berserk Mouse*
The Sexy Saddie*
The Sliver Bullet (Not Pirate name,Privateer name:Sterjammer)
* Not Pirate vessels(The Saddie was a sumggler ship & the Mouse was a legal merchant ship.)
The No Mo Joe (Not Pirate name)
The Berserk Mouse*
The Sexy Saddie*
The Sliver Bullet (Not Pirate name,Privateer name:Sterjammer)
* Not Pirate vessels(The Saddie was a sumggler ship & the Mouse was a legal merchant ship.)
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WarriorKnight
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A friend had a 200 ton Far Trader called the Bowel Movement. :rofl: It fit the ship perfectly.It was 70 years old with damaged thrusters & engines. He lost the ship in a poker game,& was happy about it.He ended getting a 100 ton Scout/Courier he named 2nd Chance.
MUELLERBADENER
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Names
IMTU there are two that everyone seems to like the most; A type T patrol frigate converted to a large bounty hunter called the "Judge Roy Bean" complete with a noose painted on it's hull, and the Chameleon class pirate vessel "the Witch's Tit," (From which all wicked men must suckle)
MuellerBadener
IMTU there are two that everyone seems to like the most; A type T patrol frigate converted to a large bounty hunter called the "Judge Roy Bean" complete with a noose painted on it's hull, and the Chameleon class pirate vessel "the Witch's Tit," (From which all wicked men must suckle)
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