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Tail Numbers on Ships

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Marquis
We've got them, I want to gather them here.

Kinunir
9512 to 9353

Gazelle
13712 Gazelle
13768 Unicorn
13791 Stag

Leviathan
50164 to 55027 (non-inclusive*)

Far Trader
55927 Empress Nicholle

Lightning-class Cruiser
6326 thru 6425



* Looks like Bilstein Yards could be operating at over 100 ships per year? Seems to imply 150+ shipbuilding berths.
 
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You can get them all here. But there are some non-canon ones mixed in (for example, all the 'Executor' class come from Clifford Lineham).
 
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Ah right, forgot about your cool resource. Thank you. Good names there, too.
 
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Hemdian said:
You can get them all here. But there are some non-canon ones mixed in (for example, all the 'Executor' class come from Clifford Lineham).
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I spotted a could of spelling mistakes. It's Pantheress, not Panthress and Lioness not Lyoness.

Also, a female Lynx is 'female Lynx'. Which I grant you is a damn unlikely name for a ship, so I suggest that whoever is responsible for coming up with names for Imperial warships would have coined the variant 'Lynxess' when they became desperate enough (They had to come up with 160+ names for the Tigresses :)). YMMV.

I wonder if there is a Tigress named Tabby? Probably not :).


Hans
 
rancke said:
...whoever is responsible for coming up with names for Imperial warships would have coined the variant 'Lynxess' when they became desperate enough (They had to come up with 160+ names for the Tigresses :)).
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Quite, just like the (what, thousands?) of variants on Beowulf.

But one thing I've always tried to do is inject a little alieness into the names. So while 160+ Terran "Tigress" class names might be hard, there's surely hundreds of other worlds with similar critters out there with very different names. No need to go "inventing" Lynxess imo. Not that there's anything really bad about it. Just saying :)

(I thought I saw a Tabby "Tigress" somewhere, once, maybe someone's game universe... )
 
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But one thing I've always tried to do is inject a little alieness into the names. So while 160+ Terran "Tigress" class names might be hard, there's surely hundreds of other worlds with similar critters out there with very different names. No need to go "inventing" Lynxess imo. Not that there's anything really bad about it. Just saying :)
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Yes, and no. I agree that there are probably hundreds if not thousands of large catlike creatures out there. I also think that most of them are called direcats :D.

All kidding aside, I think whoever made up these names started out with a Terran encyclopedia. After all, the three canonical names we have are tigress, pantheress, and lioness. See a trend there? So the first several dozen names would be mostly from Terra, with perhaps a leavening of the most well-known other-world names. After that, yes, I agree, they'd be raiding foreign worlds for large catlike beings.

I made a list once and came up with about 30+ names from Terra alone (though I had to include mythological mosnsters and hybrids to get there, but what's wrong with Sphinxess and Tigoness?) Unfortunately I can't find that file again. I suppose I ought to sit down one day and recreate it.



I thought I saw a Tabby "Tigress" somewhere, once, maybe someone's game universe... )
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I shall say nothing at all...


Hans
 
I went through a phase of taking names for tramp trader ships from the subject lines of spam I was getting - this was when one of the then-big spammers was using two-apparently-random-word subject lines, usually of one of the forms

(a) verb-participle noun
(b) adjective noun
(c) adverb verb

and the two words didn't necessarily have to be "appropriate" in conjunction, so that one might have "Calendrical Perambulation" or "Jeffersonian Epsilon" or even some not-quite-word oddballs like "Connipting Scribulation".

I may still have that list somewhere; I should dig it out for giggles...
 
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I made a list once and came up with about 30+ names from Terra alone (though I had to include mythological mosnsters and hybrids to get there, but what's wrong with Sphinxess and Tigoness?) Unfortunately I can't find that file again. I suppose I ought to sit down one day and recreate it.
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I've posted my list of Tigress names here.


Hans
 
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