[NGTM-1R]

I tend to use vaguely nasty-sound names for a lot of Shivan ships too. I named a set of four destroyers for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, for example. Cruisers tend to recieve more obscure names simply because there are more of them, but corvettes get things like "Corrupter", "Ravager", or "Woe".

[Mad Bomber]

I occasionally use villainous D+D deities for Shivan warships, but I usually just stick with evil things in general.

Occasionally I will intentionally reuse a ship name for comic effect.

[Trivial Psychic]

SD George W. Bush

[Agent_Koopa]

Derelict uses Cthulhu mythos names for Shivan ships, such as Nyarlathotep. They work rather fine IMO, and there's a whoel bunch of them in Wikipedia. Other fictional mythologies such as Middle-earth mythologies (GTD Ilúvatar, )

*cringe*

I hate naming ships after the most famous namesakes. The GSC Einstein, for example. The Lucifer was fine because it was the most prominent and deadly ship. Ilúvatar, being the creator god and all, seems a bit over-the-top to me. I also didn't like seeing the Cthulhu actually appearing in Derelict. Would you actually ever name a ship the HMS God? Or how about the USS Buddha?

[KappaWing]

SD George W. Bush

NO!!! NOT IN THIS SYSTEM TOO!!! 

[Herra Tohtori]

*cringe*

I hate naming ships after the most famous namesakes. The GSC Einstein, for example. The Lucifer was fine because it was the most prominent and deadly ship. Ilúvatar, being the creator god and all, seems a bit over-the-top to me. I also didn't like seeing the Cthulhu actually appearing in Derelict. Would you actually ever name a ship the HMS God? Or how about the USS Buddha?

Haha..

Meh, Ilúvatar is a fictional deity. And while we have Zeus (a supreme god of Greek pantheon, though not necessarily  creator of world), Athena and Artemis as bombers, I don't think throwing fictional deities into the mix can make it any worse (if you consider it a bad thing in the first place). Not to mention Hindu deities. Who would actually use the name "Shivans"... oh wait.

And we have a Titan (namely Cyclops) as a missile, as well as god of Sun (Helios) in the same role.. and the bringer of fire to humanity (Prometheus) whose liver is every day eaten by an eagle and regenerates at night as a primary weapon.

It's true however that most famous namesakes can get a little boring after a while. Perhaps I wouldn't use Eru Ilúvatar's name as a ship name, but choose some of the lesser Valar - there's enough of them to spare.


...Did Cthulhu himself actually appear in the Derelict as a name of a ship? I don't remember... Seems I have to re-play it.

[MP-Ryan]

As long as no one makes a ship/wing called the Sisyphus, we'll all be alright.  Though in the first Awakenings mission it feels like your wing name SHOULD be Sisyphus.

[KappaWing]

I think you can find the GTD Urethra in the closing missions of "The Enemies Return".... I dont remember if i changed it or not. Even if the ships name is changed, I'm sure breifings or ingame message make reference to the penis-referencing Hecate. I'm inconsistant like that.

[karajorma]

I'm tempted to take up that suggestion from my 13 common FREDding mistakes thread and have a wing of Dragons called Cockmonger

[Agent_Koopa]

Haha..

Meh, Ilúvatar is a fictional deity. And while we have Zeus (a supreme god of Greek pantheon, though not necessarily  creator of world), Athena and Artemis as bombers, I don't think throwing fictional deities into the mix can make it any worse (if you consider it a bad thing in the first place). Not to mention Hindu deities. Who would actually use the name "Shivans"... oh wait.

And we have a Titan (namely Cyclops) as a missile, as well as god of Sun (Helios) in the same role.. and the bringer of fire to humanity (Prometheus) whose liver is every day eaten by an eagle and regenerates at night as a primary weapon.

It's true however that most famous namesakes can get a little boring after a while. Perhaps I wouldn't use Eru Ilúvatar's name as a ship name, but choose some of the lesser Valar - there's enough of them to spare.


...Did Cthulhu himself actually appear in the Derelict as a name of a ship? I don't remember... Seems I have to re-play it.

Well, some of the other Valar would be good. I completely forgot about Zeus, but I meant as specific ships, not entire classes. Cthulhu did indeed appear, as a cruiser if memory serves.

[spartan_0214]

I must admit, I'm not being too original with the naming of my ships. I've chosen Icarus and Daedelus (though there are parallels between the myth and the campaign) as my destroyers. The corvette is the Draconia. Ah well, we'll see the response when the campaign's released.

[diceman111]

I tend to use names of battleships and such for terran destroyers aswell as the names of such ships that has appeared in the FS2 campaign (And wasent destroyed).

As for shivan and Vasudan ships I use Freespace2 wiki for that but now that all of you have posted such good link I might have to change that.


/Dice

[DarkShadow-]

As long as no one makes a ship/wing called the Sisyphus, we'll all be alright.  Though in the first Awakenings mission it feels like your wing name SHOULD be Sisyphus.

Actually there IS a ship called Sisyphus on Hades Combine (well, it's Sizifus, but that's almost the same). 

[aldo_14]

Derelict uses Cthulhu mythos names for Shivan ships, such as Nyarlathotep. They work rather fine IMO, and there's a whoel bunch of them in Wikipedia. Other fictional mythologies such as Middle-earth mythologies (GTD Ilúvatar, )

*cringe*

I hate naming ships after the most famous namesakes. The GSC Einstein, for example. The Lucifer was fine because it was the most prominent and deadly ship. Ilúvatar, being the creator god and all, seems a bit over-the-top to me. I also didn't like seeing the Cthulhu actually appearing in Derelict. Would you actually ever name a ship the HMS God? Or how about the USS Buddha?

Albeit if you've never ever ever heard the name 'Ilúvatar', then it just sounds clunky.

[Herra Tohtori]

Which would, I believe, include all the people who haven't read Silmarillion or otherwise familiar with Tolkien legendarium.

[MP-Ryan]

legendarium.

I'm pretty sure you just made that word up

[Herra Tohtori]

Quite the opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendarium

 

[TrashMan]

I use either some mythological names (Gorgon, Titan, Archangel)or real-world ship names(Iowa, Repulse, Hood), or just some cool sounding names(Cobra, Retribution, Warmonger, Whitehall)

or I make my own (using tolkien elvish ) - Aeglos, Nareas

[MP-Ryan]

Quite the opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendarium

 

Well I'll be... I learned something new today.

[Mobius]

It's Illùvatar, not Ilùvatar.