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KnowUsByTheDead
Sunlight...Through The Blight.
#101 - 2012-08-08 09:39:04 UTC
I name em all the same................. o/

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Hestia Mar
Calmaretto
#102 - 2012-08-08 09:43:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Hestia Mar
Please tell me that I'm not the only person in EVE with a Drake called 'Francis'? (although that may resonate only with Brits)

I also use names based upon Iain M Banks' culture ship names such as 'Sleeper Service', 'Lapsed Pacifist' and of course 'Clear Air Turbulence'...but I do have a BC called Thunderer, as the Royal Navy had a BC of that name at Jutland, and who wouldn't want to be captain of a warship called Thunderer?

Oh, and my Orca is called "The Dirty Projector", as a band of that name released a record called 'Bitte Orca'
MisterNick
The Sagan Clan
#103 - 2012-08-08 10:53:05 UTC
Generally some play on the ship's hull class name, or what it does.

My Navy Comet is, of course, named MNS Halley P

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Dautrin Maize
Peirmont Industries
#104 - 2012-08-08 12:03:40 UTC
All of mine are named from the 2nd Edition AD&D Monster Manuals...cuz I'm just that much of a geek. They corresponde either to the ship's function or it's size; or both.

And if I lose one, I get another and name it the same thing only with a II, III, IV, V, etc. after it (to signify that I suck and lost that many ships before it).

My frigates are all called things like "Goblin" or "Kobold" (but the Firetail got the name of "Wisp")

My haulers and barges have names like "Bullette" or "Osyluth".

And my combat ships are undead names like "Wraith" or "Demi Lich". My typhoons carry the name of "Arch Lich"...sadly I'm up to the suffix of "III"...

Named my new Noctis "Harpy". Dunno why...
Lysanne Reqetta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#105 - 2012-08-08 12:05:54 UTC
HMS Profane ******* Altpost I can't remember. Probably "Lysanne Reqetta's Atron".

Blatant alt posting? In my EVE? It's more likely than you think.

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Tiberius StarGazer
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#106 - 2012-08-08 12:06:24 UTC
Mine is called Minerva after the Roman Goddess of Trade and Labour.
Skeln Thargensen
Doomheim
#107 - 2012-08-08 12:06:51 UTC
My Covetor:

Scargill's Delight

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Shalua Rui
Rui Freelance Mining
#108 - 2012-08-08 12:07:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Shalua Rui
Dautrin Maize wrote:
All of mine are named from the 2nd Edition AD&D Monster Manuals...cuz I'm just that much of a geek. They corresponde either to the ship's function or it's size; or both.


...you should get a titan and name her "Tarrasque" then...

Gods... what a throwback to my teenage-nerd-chick days... *smirks*

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Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#109 - 2012-08-08 12:09:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Liafcipe9000
one of my favorite ships is the jaguar and I actually held a contest for people to give it a name.

eventually it was named: Tezcatlipoca, and I know of at least 3 ways in which it matches not only the ship and its origin but also myself.
Thor Kerrigan
Guardians of Asceticism
#110 - 2012-08-08 12:17:35 UTC
If I had a Naga, I would call it Samir.

...

Na gonna work here anyways!
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#111 - 2012-08-08 13:24:09 UTC
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
My Covetor:

Scargill's Delight


Should have named it Maggie's Horror Twisted

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Arline Kley
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#112 - 2012-08-08 13:35:59 UTC
I have three types of name: Standard, T2, and Faction names, which are then split down by hull type and all are based on a religious context (being Amarrian this kinda suits)

e.g. for a ship based on the Apoc hull:

Standard: TES Divinity's Edge
T2: TES Dei gratia
Faction: TES Angel of Wrath.


I also had a naming convention based on emotive feeling: e.g. Rapturous Outcome, Indomitable Hatred..



"For it was said they had become like those peculiar demons, which dwell in matter but in whom no light may be found." - Father Grigori, Ravens 3:57
Fairren
HellrisCorp
#113 - 2012-08-08 20:52:10 UTC
I name my ships the same way that I fly them: by rolling my face on the keyboard.
Noras Ellan
Norian Horizons
#114 - 2012-08-09 02:40:43 UTC
Haha nice thread. I usually throw mythological decorum out the window and combine words from different culture's:

My first carrier was named 'Ahes Iara', where 'Ahes' was a magician from Breton, and 'Iara' was known as a Brazilian water queen.

Meh. It sounded nice Cool
Baby ChuChu
Ice Cream Asylum
#115 - 2012-08-09 03:33:09 UTC
I call my Raven the "Battlestar Carebear" just because...
Hestia Mar
Calmaretto
#116 - 2012-08-09 08:35:10 UTC
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
My Covetor:

Scargill's Delight



Should be called 'Maggies Kick in the Balls'

Go Maggie

lol
Darius Brinn
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#117 - 2012-08-09 09:35:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Darius Brinn
I normally use themes from venereal deseases and their sympthoms, or just weird/repulsive stuff. Like:

Gonorrhea burn > Hurricane
Syphilitic rash > Navy Comet
Smegma sherbet > Brutix
Cojón derecho (Spanish for "right testicle") > Ishkur
The teabagger > Hound

I do this because whenever I choose serious or good sounding names for my ships, they are invariably destroyed immediately.

I hadn't lost a ship since January 2011, and the other day I thought I loved the way my Naga look and that it deserved a beautiful name.

15 minutes later it got gangbanged by a 26-man fleet.

Never again. It's smegma, phlegm and STDs all the way for my ships.
Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#118 - 2012-08-09 12:52:00 UTC
Gangbang as in you enjoyed it?
witchking42
Doomheim
#119 - 2012-08-09 13:58:39 UTC
All mine are named after Iron Maiden tracks.... Wasted Years, Big 'Orra, 22 Acacia Avenue etc etc Twisted
Anslo
Scope Works
#120 - 2012-08-09 14:05:11 UTC
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