Originally posted by Trayus
I'd go with Bellona. Just sounds cooler in my opinion. Roman mythological names rock.
Mmh, now I have to say that I disagree with that. The follofing is almost entirely "IMO" so don't be offended if you think otherwise...
Generally Roman deities have considerably lamer names than their Greec counterparts, save for few exceptions.
Here are examples of what would Roman names sound like, instead of their Greek versions:
GTF Ares -> GTF Mars
GTF Erinyes -> GTF Furies
GTB Athena -> GTB Minerva
GTB Zeus -> GTB Jupiter
GTB Artemis -> GTB Diana
GTFR Poseidon -> GTFR Neptune
GTCv Enyo -> GTCv Bellona
Yes, Bellona is actually Roman counterpart for Enyo, the Horror.
Most other names either have no counterpart on Roman mythology or have the same name in both mythologies, like Triton nad Apollo, for instance. Anyway, Greek mythology is much extensive than Roman, with more good character names such as Diomedes, Achilleus or Iason... Ulysses is already used up.
Of course some Roman names are better than Greek counterparts... Hercules undoubtedly sound far cooler than Heracles. Anyway, I always thought that Volition followed somewhat illogical principles in naming their ship classes...
-Terran ships mostly come from Greek mythology, with few Roman names and several from Norse/Germanic mythology(Fenris, Faustus, Mjöllnir) but also some from christian/hebrew mythology - namely Leviathan.
-Vasudan ships are all named by Egyptian deities and symbols, the only race whose ships were all named from one mythology.
-Shivan ships that appeared during Great War have names from christian mythology (Cain, Demon, Lucifer, Nephilim, Seraphim, there's plenty of these...) with the exception of fighter craft named by monsters like Manticore from Persian mythology, Basilisk from Greek and Dragon from practically every mythology you can think of.
-Shivan ships encountered during the Second Shivan Incursion (FS2 main campaign) are named after hindu mythology (Ravana, Rakshasa, Mara etc.) With the exception of SD Sathanas clearly from christian mythology.
All in all, the ship classes are not very logically named, when you think of it.
But I also think that Diomedes would be a good name for this Corvette. After all, it is Axem's matter to decide the name - fhat he thinks appropriate should be good, if it don't suite us we can go and plan our own ships and give them good names... Of course we can give ideas when opinion is asked, and try to speak for our ideas.