What’s in my hangar?
Most of my ship names consist of trying to find something that sounds technical and might relate in some (tangential) way to the ship’s purpose. Occasionally, I give them names for specific tactical purposes, like naming a ship after another ship class, to confuse inexperienced pilots who might pick me up on the directional scanner.
Let’s see…
1x Fenrir, “Ootini”: I use this ship when moving bases, though in reality I suspect I may free up the invested capital for other things that have a better ROI. It shouldn’t take a lot of thought to figure out the name’s origin.
1x Orca, “Quantum Heliophase”: I use this ship primarily for POS ops and sometimes as a mini-freighter. This provides a pretty good example of the naming style that has served me for a long time (though I occasionally deviate from it slightly sometimes now).
1x Mastodon, “Normal Vector”: My day-to-day low-sec hauler
1x Hoarder, “Fuzzy Waffle”: I don’t remember how we named this remnant from W-space ops. I can neither confirm nor deny whether alcohol played a part in this.
4x Drake: Several of my exploration ships came from a player no longer with us, and he named all his tank-heavy W-space exploration ships “<adjective> Soul”, like “Unwavering Soul” and “Vigilant Soul”. I retained those names. I also have one named “Asymptotic Security” because of the heavy passive shield tank it carries.
1x Myrmidon, “Meshigator”: I took “Mesh Navigator”, realized it sounded too much like other ships I use for low-sec exploration (see below), and just smushed it together.
2x Cheetah, “Lattice Navigator”: Almost exclusively dedicated to exploration with some light low-sec courier work, using these ships to find deadspace pockets full of goodies led to another faux-technical name.
2x Claw, “Parabolic Series” and “Exotransportation”: These interceptors get used primarily for courier work and sometimes salvaging in lowsec. Sometimes I find a battle, like a gate camp, then wait it out and clean it up. “Exotransportation” should be particularly obvious, I suppose, though I also named it while perusing a blog about exoplanetology.
3x Heron: I use these for exploration on the cheap, often in high-sec. One of them remains unnamed, but the other two are “Neutrino Interval” and “The Seer”. Pretty sure that last one came from W-space as well, probably left over when we had to pull out quickly.
1x Maelstrom, “Meganebula”: I kept the same initial letter, but shield boosters have this odd connection to nebulae in my mind, and since this ship gets a bonus to those, the name just sort of congealed in my mind.
1x Dramiel, “Vikarion”: Named for the pilot and friend who gave me this ship for free. Well, not free. He wanted Casiella’s immortal soul, and she figured she didn’t really need it anyway.
1x Cyclone, “Whirlwind”: This name actually doesn’t refer to the hull type but to its function (gas harvesting). Not my best moment, to be quite honest.
1x Buzzard, “Dark Lightning”: Null-sec courier. You should never see it…
Bleh, clearly I have entirely too many ships.
