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Savar
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:43 pm    Post subject: Naming conventions Reply with quote

Is there a known method for naming Imperial ships?

I am trying to name an Imperial Customs Guardian Light Cruiser that the captain is an Inquisitor.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not that i've seen, other than for ISD's they generally seem to have 'death and destruction, or resilience and strength' like names..
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Basically, think of a slogan that a totalitarian regime would use, and extract one word. That's your Imperial starship.
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Savar
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Punishment or Punisher.

More thinking, thank you!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://theforce.net/swtc/isdlist.html

Thispage list several Imperial Star Destroyers by name, and it touches into the naming conventions for the ships.

I t may not fit your mold excatly, but I think it will you some ideas and answers
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check out some Royal Navy ship names. Especially for patrol boats such as the Archer-class. Some of those work well enough.

You could also give it a letter-and-numbers code since it's just not important enough to warrant a name, being a 40+ metre long jumped up transport.
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Dredwulf60
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scots Dragon wrote:
Check out some Royal Navy ship names. Especially for patrol boats such as the Archer-class. Some of those work well enough.

You could also give it a letter-and-numbers code since it's just not important enough to warrant a name, being a 40+ metre long jumped up transport.


Indeed. I think with a fleet with enough ships of all types to patrol the Galaxy...unique names would run out pretty fast. Especially the really 'cool' ones.

It's hard enough to log on to a computer network on earth with a cool name that doesn't require misspellings and numbers and emojis.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a fun play on this in the fan fic Hull 721, where in a manner similar to aircraft nose art from WW2, the smaller ships of the Imperial Navy have become too numerous to be assigned their own names, and are simply given numbers. In this region, Fleet Command gave the crew permission to "christen" their own ships, with some truly hilarious results...
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