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If you had your own spaceship,what would you call it and why?

POSTED BY: TJ50
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Monday, September 26, 2005 1:04 AM

Someone took the name Icarus. I liked that I was gonna go with that but my ship's name will be

The Morning Star. Dunno what it means but it sounds cool.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 1:09 AM

I'd call it home.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 1:40 AM

Ship names I might pick (and curiously, I might actually have the opportunity one of these days).

1: For a trading ship, it's hard to beat George R.R. Martin's ship for his character Haviland Tuf: "The Cornucopia of Excellent Goods at Low Prices."

2: Personal Sentimental Favourite: "Rick D. Husband." Guy was a classmate of mine. One of the good guys. Google him.

3. Alternative Sentimental Favourite: "Mary Ellen Carter." From the song by Stan Rogers.

4. "Serenity." One of the guys that used to work for me had a personalized plate on his Corvette ZR-1 that said, "Kp Flyin." I like the idea a lot.

5. "Enterprise." There's a song by Jean Stevenson that has the lyric, "These sister ships of different times have ever harboured iron men.." It's not just the Trek ship, but the whole idea that that name should always be flying.

6. "Risa." My wife.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 8:49 AM

The top of my list is "Filthy Whore" (film referance) so I'll be able to say things like:
"Get off that Filthy Whore!" and
"Don't let them touch the Filthy Whore!" or
"Seeya hon, I'm going back to the Filthy Whore"

My second choice would be (freetrader) Beowulf....any old time gamers may remember the pen and paper rpg called Traveler. That was the ship named on the original box cover.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 9:58 AM

Shikei -- "Death penalty" in Japanese.

Nemesis -- Greek goddess of Justice, Order and the like.

All for now.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 8:15 PM

Aha. I've thought of another. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:21 PM

My ship would be called the "Lily Sloane" in honour of the engineer who, with Zephraim Cochran, developed Warp Drive.
Showin' a sistah scientist some love.


"Take me, sir. Take me hard." - Zoe

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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by Uriah:
My second choice would be (freetrader) Beowulf....any old time gamers may remember the pen and paper rpg called Traveler. That was the ship named on the original box cover.



Gorram, I'm old....

Heck, I have the box still with the original plastic wrap around it.

"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson

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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:40 PM

That would be pretty valuable to some people....have you taken it to a con and shopped it around? I still have multiple copies of all the books and supplements, all well worn.

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Originally posted by Sickdude:
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Originally posted by Uriah:
My second choice would be (freetrader) Beowulf....any old time gamers may remember the pen and paper rpg called Traveler. That was the ship named on the original box cover.



Gorram, I'm old....

Heck, I have the box still with the original plastic wrap around it.

"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson

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Monday, September 26, 2005 11:00 PM

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Originally posted by TJ50:
If you had your own cool spaceship (or more than one) in the Firefly sci-fi universe, what witty or cool name/s (other than anything as dull as a normal person’s Christian name) would you call it or them and please say why, for each spaceship.



Virgin Whore

or

Estimated Prophet

or

Entropy Ascendant


Mackey's First Law of Land Warfare: You can NEVER have too much ammunition or toilet paper.

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