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SharkBoy007
Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:03 am
#40
My TIE is named "Black Pearl", and no, it's not because of "Pirates of the Carrbean". It's because the ball cockpit reminds me of a black pearl, for whatever reason. I guess it's because it's round, black and extremely expensive 
Mox Shehalis
WizKid72
Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:47 am
#41
Starsider:
- Y-Wing Longprobe: Farstar I
- X-Wing Fighter: Farstar II
- A-Wing Fighter: Farstar III
Bloodfin:
- TIE Light Duty: BlackStar I
- TIE Fighter: BlackStar II
- TIE/In: BlackStar III
The Farstar is the gravitic ship from Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Earth.. I've always been a huge Asimov fan.. BlackStar is just something I made up =P
R0ZM4N
Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:27 am
#42
Oo what a great idea!
My TIE’s are all Alpha 1-6 after the original TIE fighter nomenclature and my SS3k is called 'Xebec’s Demise', if anyone can say why they get 10 whole points 
(seriously, I'll be very impressed)
(seriously, I'll be very impressed)I intend all of my other MP's to have names from the Iain M Banks school of Ship naming. Looking for a cool IMB name? try these on for size:
All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation
Stuff
Someone Else's Problem
Lacking That Small Match Temperament
Poke It With A Stick
I Said, I've Got A Big Stick
Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
But Who's Counting?
Germane Riposte
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
All The Same, I Saw It First
Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
Zero Credibility
Charming But Irrational
Demented But Determined
You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
Lucid Nonsense
Awkward Customer
Thorough But ... Unreliable
Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
In One Ear
Fine Till You Came Along
I Blame The Parents
Inappropriate Response
A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
Lapsed Pacifist
Reformed Nice Guy
Pride Comes Before A Fall
Injury Time
Now Look What You've Made Me Do
Kiss This Then
Grey Area
Sanctioned Parts List
Resistance Is Character-Forming
A Ship With A View
Ablation
Arrested Development
Credibility Problem
Dramatic Exit
Excuses And Accusations
God Told Me To Do It
Halation Effect
Happy Idiot Talk
Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
Heresiarch
Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
Minority Report
Not Wanted On Voyage
Perfidy
Sacrificial Victim
Stranger Here Myself
Synchronize Your Dogmas
Thank you And Goodnight
The Precise Nature Of The Catastrophe
Unwitting Accomplice
Undesirable Alien
Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later
Different Tan
Fate Amenable To Change
It's Character Forming
Jaundiced Outlook
Problem Child
Reasonable Excuse
Recent Convert
Tactical Grace
Unacceptable Behaviour
Steely Glint
Highpoint
Shoot Them Later
Attitude Adjuster
Killing Time
Frank Exchange Of Views
Just Testing
Xenophobe
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
What Are The Civilian Applications?
Congenital Optimist
Size Isn't Everything
Sweet and Full of Grace
Screw Loose
Flexible Demeanour
Just Read The Instructions
Of Course I Still Love You
Limiting Factor
Cargo Cult
Little Rascal
So Much For Subtlety
Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
Youthful Indiscretion
Gunboat Diplomat
Zealot
Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
Death and Gravity
Ethics Gradient
Honest Mistake
Limivourous
No Fixed Abode
Quietly Confident
Sleeper Service
Uninvited Guest
Use Psychology
What Is The Answer and Why?
Wisdom Like Silence
Yawning Angel
Zero Gravitas
Misophist
Serious Callers Only
Not Invented Here
Stuff
Someone Else's Problem
Lacking That Small Match Temperament
Poke It With A Stick
I Said, I've Got A Big Stick
Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
But Who's Counting?
Germane Riposte
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
All The Same, I Saw It First
Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
Zero Credibility
Charming But Irrational
Demented But Determined
You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
Lucid Nonsense
Awkward Customer
Thorough But ... Unreliable
Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
In One Ear
Fine Till You Came Along
I Blame The Parents
Inappropriate Response
A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
Lapsed Pacifist
Reformed Nice Guy
Pride Comes Before A Fall
Injury Time
Now Look What You've Made Me Do
Kiss This Then
Grey Area
Sanctioned Parts List
Resistance Is Character-Forming
A Ship With A View
Ablation
Arrested Development
Credibility Problem
Dramatic Exit
Excuses And Accusations
God Told Me To Do It
Halation Effect
Happy Idiot Talk
Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
Heresiarch
Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
Minority Report
Not Wanted On Voyage
Perfidy
Sacrificial Victim
Stranger Here Myself
Synchronize Your Dogmas
Thank you And Goodnight
The Precise Nature Of The Catastrophe
Unwitting Accomplice
Undesirable Alien
Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later
Different Tan
Fate Amenable To Change
It's Character Forming
Jaundiced Outlook
Problem Child
Reasonable Excuse
Recent Convert
Tactical Grace
Unacceptable Behaviour
Steely Glint
Highpoint
Shoot Them Later
Attitude Adjuster
Killing Time
Frank Exchange Of Views
Just Testing
Xenophobe
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
What Are The Civilian Applications?
Congenital Optimist
Size Isn't Everything
Sweet and Full of Grace
Screw Loose
Flexible Demeanour
Just Read The Instructions
Of Course I Still Love You
Limiting Factor
Cargo Cult
Little Rascal
So Much For Subtlety
Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
Youthful Indiscretion
Gunboat Diplomat
Zealot
Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
Death and Gravity
Ethics Gradient
Honest Mistake
Limivourous
No Fixed Abode
Quietly Confident
Sleeper Service
Uninvited Guest
Use Psychology
What Is The Answer and Why?
Wisdom Like Silence
Yawning Angel
Zero Gravitas
Misophist
Serious Callers Only
Not Invented Here
That should see you right
Kisses
Cass
Surseance
Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:24 am
#43
My Luxury Yacht is of course called the "Velcro Fly" 
I named my fighter the Baphomet. He he.
I named my fighter the Baphomet. He he.
Message Edited by Surseance on 12-07-2004 02:28 PM
R0ZM4N
Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:53 am
#44
MilleSabor wrote:
R0ZM4N wrote:
My TIE’s are all Alpha 1-6 after the original TIE fighter nomenclature and my SS3k is called 'Xebec’s Demise', if anyone can say why they get 10 whole points
Alternate Reality?
CU
Mille
If that wasn't a Google but drawn from the misty depths of rusted memories then you truly deserve the 10 points, thou art sagely and wise...
.../menacing but if it was a Google *shakes fist at sky*
Well done flower, good to know I'm not the only 'Ancient' around here
Mch luv
Cass
MilleSabor
Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:44 am
#45
R0ZM4N wrote:
Well done flower, good to know I'm not the only 'Ancient' around here
Mch luv
Cass
I am really that old (fourty years and a bit)... 
But I still enjoy gaming, never really grew up I think - and proud of it!
But I still enjoy gaming, never really grew up I think - and proud of it! CU
Mille
Daxin
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:06 am
#46
X-Wing: Dax-Wing Duck
A-Wing: Slice of Fried Gold ("Shawn of the Dead" quote- pretty funny horror movie)
A-Wing: Slice of Fried Gold ("Shawn of the Dead" quote- pretty funny horror movie)
Avior
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:13 am
#47
I named my Tie Interceptor Daishi, from my days playing Mechwarrior. i twas my favorite mech, and means grand master
FLATLINEDEATH
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:24 am
#48
Avior wrote:
I named my Tie Interceptor Daishi, from my days playing Mechwarrior. i twas my favorite mech, and means grand master
Daishi means "Great Death."
My Y-Wing is Bantha Leader because I'm the squadron commander of a roleplaying squadron of Y-Wings on Chimaera, we're based off Tatooine and we fly slow ships, so we call ourself Bantha Squadron.
My Nova Courier is Morning Star, because someone told me thats a reference to Satan so its really evil but sounds so mundane. I love it.
Exokaubis
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:24 am
#49
Y wing - Medorian III , all my beginning ships were named after my soon to be god daughter, numbered sequentially in order i used/deeded them. (B wing will likely be Medorian IV)
X wing - WhiteWing (Exokaubis the White, that is what they call me... ) (1 week til Gandaalf vs the Witch King!)
A wing - Nittany wraith right now, Nittany cause im a penn stater and painted it like their football helm (all white with the navy blue center stripe) and Wraith cause another buddy of mine named his ship after another covenantvehicle in halo. and since ghost was taken...
Avior
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:28 am
#50
Flatline, I know the meaning
Gengaku / Yoka Daishi [Daishi meaning Grand Master] (665-713), Shodoka, Cheng-Tao Ke " Song of the immediate satori " or " song of the way of the Realization " - " we should look neither for leaves nor for branches, but return to the root " [Daishi meaning Grand Master]
If you want to know more, please check here http://www.bouddha.ch/english/zenchan-eng.htm
truewildman
Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:18 am
#51
Garry2rs wrote:
truewildman wrote:
Ship names are in the sig, and I bet you can guess why they're named what they are.
Just in case,let me'splain. No, 's too much, let me sum up:
A Trandoshan's worth is measured by how many kills he gets in his lifetime from hunts. These kills are tallied by the female Dosh deity, the "Scorekeeper". The tallied points are called "Jagannath Points".
So, there ya go.
Nice.
Thanks! 
BTW, My Firespray is called "Jagannath Hunter II" because the original "Jagannath Hunter" was my Rihkxyrk, which is now retired.
Message Edited by truewildman on 12-17-2004 03:52 PM
Gehrmann
Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:23 am
#52
My Decimator is the "Rocinante", Don Quixote's faithful work horse, and the name of the Starship in Rush's "Cygnus X-1" and "Hemispheres".
Gehrmann
