What would you name a Firefly?

POSTED BY: christhecynic
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:31 AM

Let’s say you took after certain Star Trek fans and rebuilt a part of the Firefly set (or all of it if you have the money, time, insanity, and know-how.) Now you’ve got a ship, Midbulk transport, standard radion-accelerator core, classcode 03-K64, "Firefly", what would you name it?

Personally I wouldn’t feel justified in calling it Serenity unless every detail was perfect. I don’t care how obsessive you are; it simply can’t be done.

So, you build your recreation, but if you don’t call it Serenity what would you call it?

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Yes I am looking for ideas. No I have not built a new set on my non-existent previously unoccupied land, so don’t bother asking for a visit.

On the other hand...

If anyone has had (or will have) the money, time, insanity, know-how, and inclination to rebuild the entire set please invite me over some time, or many times, or just let me live in one of the rooms.

In fact invite me over even if it is just part of the set.

HOTPOINT

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:06 AM

I think Lampyridae would be a good name.

Firefly... in the Latin

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TJACK

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:18 AM

I've already named the ship in my head... The Far Venture
There's another thread here for other ship names. If I remember rightly we've got enough for a merchant fleet.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tjack:
There's another thread here for other ship names. If I remember rightly we've got enough for a merchant fleet.

Ah, I did not know that.

Also I wanted to know more what you would name a firefly as a Firefly fan, as opposed to, say, whatever the used ship salesman was trying to sell Mal as an RPG character, or whatever.

Perhaps the distinction makes no difference, perhaps it does.

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Other than Lost Cause, Caelum (sky, in the Latin) is all that I can think of.

The name Lost Cause symbolizes in my mind the unwillingness to give up on something good because it is unattainable.

As for Caelum, you can’t take it from me.

I could never see naming a firefly anything that didn’t somehow relate to the show.

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By the way, I thought of something just a moment ago. Firefly did really seem to be a lost cause for a time, but we didn’t give up, and neither did the crew, and so Serenity is coming.

We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

3HEADEDMONKEY

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:03 AM

I'd call it:

Zug Zug the Rug Monster

ZOOT

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:07 AM

I'd call it Spindle ... not entirely sure why ....

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FRAY101

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:51 AM

Serendipity.

Although I suppose that's a little close in sound, if not meaning, to Serenity to be all that original!

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"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

Over 100 Serenity screencaps now available at www.destinything.com (yep, bought me a proper name!)

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:33 AM

Verisimilitude.

Or Junker.

Or Youthful Indiscretion.

Or Gunboat Diplomat.

Or Only Slightly Bent.

Or Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality.

Or A Ship With A View.

Or Perfidy.

Or Stranger Here Myself.

Or No Fixed Abode .

Okay, so that's slightly too many Culture ship names. But they're so good!

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

FRAY101

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:43 AM

You thought about that way too much! I like Perfidy...

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"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

Over 100 Serenity screencaps now available at www.destinything.com (yep, bought me a proper name!)

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:34 PM

My roleplayers have had 2 firefly's over the last year, the first was called 'Daisy', the one they got on Sunday was called 'Merlin'. They've also had the 'Vendetta', the 'Du-Khang', the 'Tien-Shyr' and an unnamed generic Alliance vessel.

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