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I always loved The Culture for ship names such as
Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Mistake Not... is great but I like the Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints even better
Mistake Not... is great. Just The Washing Instruction Chip In Life's Rich Tapestry is another of my favorites.
Some of the ones I like from The Culture:
This Reminds me ,A fantasy Book i read had "Whales" that float in the sky , in it and their names where also awsome like :
"Wind against rain heavy horizon in the spring morning light over the Green Sea"
"dancing snowflakes under the winter moons"
"loves monlight in the Winter Forest"
I've read all the books but I don't remember this one: Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory. It's very funny
In fiction just because it is my favorite would be The Rocinante
What I would name mine? The Zerzan just because he was one of the founding anarcho primitivist authors and it would really piss him off.
Rocinante is such a great name
Hexbear One
Dirt Owl
"Botany Bay" as both the alliteration and sinister connotation that I expect from a space ship.
Austral*ans are sinister yes
I’ve always loved the way things are named in the Halo universe. There’s a lot of ships with normal ass names but there’s also names like Forward Unto Dawn and Pillar of Autumn. The coolest one is probably the UNSC In Amber Clad.
The way things are named in Chinese history is similarly cool. Like Spring and Autumn Period.
Amber.
Halo had great names for ships. The UNSC were a mix of epic or cheeky or some kind of reference to a place or a battle. The Covenant names were a bunch of imperious sounding religious themes. Must have been fun sitting around the writers room coming up with all those.
I’ve never played Halo but I love the lore. I fucking almost cried watching the Believe ads for Halo 3.
I hate how the fictional universe of Halo was sort of not taken as seriously, like what happens with a lot of video games. Like, a complete remake would be cool.
You should get the Master Chief Collection and play it on like, Normal difficulty. That one contains the first 6 games. Real breeze at that difficulty, no frustration and almost no dying/reloading, makes it a tour of lots of cool shit and lore.
I'm looking up some Covenant ship names.
So cool
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the UESC Marathon
Perfect name for a generation ship
Though, if I ever had a spaceship, I'd probably name it The Coqui
Mine would be a concept, not a person or place or thing. Something eternal, something hopeful, something inspirational, something translatable into many languages. Thinking as I'm typing. But the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that Arthur C. Clarke got it right with "Discovery". It is the perfect spaceship name. NASA's Mars surface missions have a long string of great names in that vein. Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Perseverance, Ingenuity.
I like Aloha Oe from Space Dandy as a spaceship name. Serenity from Firefly and the Bebop from Cowboy Bebop are also cool names.
But if I had a spaceship, I'd name it Laika. Unless that was a super common name for a spaceship, then I'd choose something else.
Laika is really kinda wholesome ..
I would name mine Poop One
The Culture ones always get a giggle out of me
A Frank Exchange of Views
What Are the Civilian Applications?
Attitude Adjustment
iirc they're all combat ships
My favourite has always been Anticipation of a new lover's arrival, The
A Frank Exchange of Views is an ROU and Attitude Adjuster is an LOU, but What Are The Civilian Applications is a GSV.
I don't know why, but the name Clear Air Turbulence for the gang's ship in Consider Phlebas has stuck with me since I read it, too
I used to be scared of Slave One as a kid, probably due to the name it creeped me out, this was back when Boba Fett was a mysterious bad guy. idk what I'd name my ship.
In my half-baked MoreTankieStarTrek-verse the ship they fly around in is called the Solidarity, although the older members of the crew still sometimes call it by its wartime name, Central Park Firing Squad.
I’ve always been fond of the USCSS Nostromo. Similarly, I like Alien Isolations space station Sevastopol.
My own ship I think I would name Point Nemo, named after the most remote point in the ocean which I think really fits for a space ship. Which itself is a nod to 20,000 Leagues.
I name my animal crossing islands Point Nemo as a nod to being the most remote point from reality, where I go to escape reality on my own little island.
i like the ship names other posters mentioned from The Culture and Halo (never read anything with the culture tho)
Dialectical Materialism would be a great name for the future communist space fleet's biggest ship/ship with biggest weapons, and should have built-in busts/statues of Marx and Engels built into the hull in a central forward position like Outer Heaven in MGS4
mildly obscene levels of nerd spacecraft fantasizing contained herein
if i had my ideal personal spacecraft (something around the size of the Millenium Falcon, like enough room for a cockpit, and a couch/bed/crew lounge/cargo area, but with a smoother rounded/aerodynamic/winged hull, and mechanical limbs equipped with thrusters for aerial agility, VTOL landing in uneven terrain, and combat engineering tasks and definitely not melee combat, all in a vaguely humanoid-with-a-flat-horizontal-torso configuration kinda like the Gerwalk mode from Robotech combined with the aerial bossfight from Titanfall 2, specced for speed and handling in both vaccum and atmosphere as much as a ship that size could handle), i would name it Soviet Jazz (Советский Джаз, painted on the hull in white) and paint it red.
also the Lancer RPG comp/con app mecha name generator is amazing and everything it comes up with is pure gold, after seeing comments in this thread i'm convinced they were heavily inspired by The Culture
Lancer was heavily inspired by the Culture, yeah. Hard to avoid the big names in utopian communist science fiction
I like dumb classical references that are too long like "Triumph of Galatea" or "Tears of Persephone" so basically I'd name mine like a Halo ship.
Truth and Reconciliation is a fucking awesome name from Halo 1 that works both as a covenant ship name and as a good Socialist ship name, given it's basically naming your ship Tribunal of the Revolution
The Halo covenant ships had such banger names. The human ships weren't bad either. The Pillar of Autumn? What the fuck that's cool
Long Night of Solace , Shadow of Intent, All Under Heaven. Tons of great ones.
The Bistromath from hitchhikers guide, best ship ever.
I would name mine something shitposty like Sink’r’Swim
USS Spaceboat
Millennium Falcon, only because it was my favorite spaceship growing up, and it took me about 10-15 years to understand out what the words meant.
I can't tell you the name of my spaceship because opsec.
Not really a space ship but it was the battleship that fought the Martians in War of the Worlds. The Thunderchild. It goes out guns blazing and then kamikaze rams a Martian craft as a final "fuck you, from Earth" to protect fleeing civilians.
Would be a cool name for a spaceship. For names from science fiction I've always been partial to the Vasudan aliens from Freespace. Rather than translate the names of their ships they examined human history and decided they were fond of the ancient Egyptians and chose Egyptian names so their Terran allies could refer to their ships with human words (solidarity wins again). Gotta go with the legendary GVD Psamtik for another great name.
Fave: Sputnik
My ship: Ass Smasher 5000
Thunder Road from The Explorers is a odd ball space ship in a weird film, but I kinda like it.
I'd probably do something with a nautical vibe. Sailboats are pretty cool. Which reminds me of the DS9 Bajorian solar sail ship from the episode named "Explorers". Hmm.
Maybe something related to 'Kon Tiki' Polynesian history. "Dead Reckoning" is pretty cool sounding even though it is just a navigation technique.
I like Two For Flinching from Halo, which sounds almost like a Culture name - and from the Culture, my favourite is probably Frank Exchange of Views. But that's already been mentioned, so instead I'll say Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality.
If I was naming the flagship of the space fleet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Stellar Republics, I'd call it the Ruthless Critique. And for my personal ship, there's this one random phrase that really struck me when I was reading Wuthering Heights of all things, so it would be called the Hatless and Trembling With Wrath. My friends would call it the Hatless, my enemies would know it as the Wrath.
I'd name mine 
nik
Many culture ships have already been named I enjoy almost all of them, especially the Gravitas line of ships.
Probably "Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints" just because I liked how much of a show off it was.
"Mistake Not..." similarly I enjoy for its clowning on ship staffed by sped up digital consciousnesses rather than some artificial intelligences.
I can't think of any I like off the top of my head.
If I had to come up with a name? Maybe something like "Redshift" or "Red star"
Praxis