The Name & Purpose of your very own Starship.

[Sworm]

[Searched for "starship Name" & "spaceship Name" and the closest I got were "Describe your spaceship" Threads]

I've always thought that Sci-fi Shows & Movies have a nack for finding great name for spaceships, like the "Enterprise", "Millennium Falcon", "Executor", "Serenity", "Ebon Hawk" to mention only the more popular of the bunch. Even though the names sometimes don't hold a lot of sense or meaning (I mean come on... how does "Millennium Falcon" or "Spirit of Fire" make a lot of sense for a spaceship?) they often leave an impression on us and we associate them with epicness/fear/mockery.

This got me thinking, how creative can one get with names, and while I'm at it, with purpose.

So Here's the Scenario: It's the future, Humanity has become a space faring civilization and possessing a starship for an individual or crew is now an actual possibility .
You acquired (legally or not) your very own ship, it's everything you ever wished for.(within reason)

So tell me Escapist, How would you name it? And what would be it's purpose?
Bonus points for name origin and purpose explanations and ,of course, creativity.
Names can be in any language but a translation is much appreciated.

(Just to stay clear, a space station a-la Death star does NOT qualify as a starship.)

Personally I would go with either The Constellation (because of the night sky, not influenced by the NASA)
or perhaps The Stellar Bolt (due to my mental image of a starship soaring through space like a flaming arrow.)

And I would go for a exploration ship, navigating through the Star Ocean to observe the beauty of the Cosmos: Black holes (accretion disks), Nebulae, exotic planets and what not.

Your turn and be creative Boys & Girls!

 

[Fro Angel]

The Dream Clock and its purpose will be to travel thorugh everything including time!

 

[JWRosser]

My car is called Space Wolf? Does that count?

 

[Sworm]

It would be called the Bebop.

Just kidding. I would call it 'The Kirkland Voyager' as Kirkland happens to be the brand of household surface wipes on my desk. With it, we would travel the galaxy taking cargo too risky for others, and exploring to the furthest stars to find the meaning of life, death and infinity.

Either that or we would crash it into an asteroid within a week.

Damn Asteroids always cross space without any concern for us poor starship pilots

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

Jormungandr. We're mercenaries, more or less, but we tend to help people more often than not.

 

[TheComedown]

it would be called USS Brutal (said with a think Norwegian accent) and it would be a party ship.. but with loads of metal and hardcore music pumping all the time with lots and lots of Doritos. There would also be rage events, which are like street fights except you have to fight an inanimate object when your called up.

 

[quiet_samurai]

I'd give it a girls name like...... Ashley or Sarah or something. Rue the day when your mighty armada is vanquished by Ashley!!!!!! It would be pink too... just to add a little salt to the wound.

 

[Sworm]

I'd give it a girls name like...... Ashley or Sarah or something. Rue the day when your mighty armada is vanquished by Ashley!!!!!! It would be pink too... just to add a little salt to the wound.

wouldn't that make it the number one target in battle? both for foes and friends ?(I'm talking about being pink of course)

I know that that I'd shoot down any combat ship painted pink. Regardless of allegiance

 

[Kollega]

Well, let's say that i have... erm... "acquired" (that means stolen) a space-cruiser of unbelivable awesomeness, and i'm going to go off on a life-long interstellar voyage as a sort of "free explorer" answering to nobody but myself. I'd have a loyal team consisting of quirky aliens, and an unhealthy tendency to use ship's gauss guns for writing obscene Russian words on every moon i come across. Possible names include:

"Zvyozdny Kromsatel' " - Russian for "The Star Slicer".
"The Ascendance" - which just sounds cool.
"Kaden's Fury" - reference to Ratchet & Clank series.
"Candle Jack" - reference to Freakazoid and a minor internet me
"USS Brackman" - reference to Supreme Commander and it's Cybran faction.

 

[Sworm]

"Candle Jack" - reference to Freakazoid and a minor internet me

Oh you mean that dude who kidnaps people mid sent-

 

[quiet_samurai]

I'd give it a girls name like...... Ashley or Sarah or something. Rue the day when your mighty armada is vanquished by Ashley!!!!!! It would be pink too... just to add a little salt to the wound.

wouldn't that make it the number one target in battle? both for foes and friends ?(I'm talking about being pink of course)

I know that that I'd shoot down any combat ship painted pink. Regardless of allegiance

Nah, anyone with the stones to rock the pink starship proudly is either.

1- A total badass and knows it.
2- Captaining a pleasure barge.

 

[issacization]

the Precursor Vanguard.

we are a crew of mercs.

 

[Sworm]

I'd give it a girls name like...... Ashley or Sarah or something. Rue the day when your mighty armada is vanquished by Ashley!!!!!! It would be pink too... just to add a little salt to the wound.

wouldn't that make it the number one target in battle? both for foes and friends ?(I'm talking about being pink of course)

I know that that I'd shoot down any combat ship painted pink. Regardless of allegiance

Nah, anyone with the stones to rock the pink starship proudly is either.

1- A total badass and knows it.
2- Captaining a pleasure barge.

3- Color blind

I'll go with 3 and still shoot it down to end the humiliation of the captain.

 

[RanD00M]

Huskarl.
We would be a jack's of all traits.Need merc,come to us.Need cargo to be shipped? Come to us.We'll do almost any job for the right price.

 

[Siuki]

"Shadow of Intent" Always thought it was a cool name(cookie to the person who knows where its from) and the slipspace would come in handy too.

 

[Adamc-mh]

the mighty boosh and we would distribute copies of mighty boosh to the starving nations