This prompt is inspired by Iain Banks’ Culture series. If you could choose the names for 10 large spaceships capable of carrying hundreds of millions of people in post scarcity utopic comfort which names would you choose and why?
Examples:
Heracles
Limitless
Obsidian
Elysium
Argus
Funland
Primrose
Seraph
Elohim
Daedalus
Aldrin, Armstrong, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard…
Shippy McShipface.
Because this is what you get when you let people name things.
Smapti
August 16, 2022, 12:10am
5
Arc 1
Arc 2
Arc 3
Arc 4
Arc 5
Arc 6
Arc 7
Arc 8
Arc 9
Arc 10
Ark A
Ark C
Ark D
Ark E …
Chandler, Heinlein, Anderson, Russell, Norton, Bliss…
Grissom, White, Chafee, Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, Resnick, Jarvis, McAuliffe, Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon
silenus:
Grissom, White, Chafee, Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, Resnick, Jarvis, McAuliffe, Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon
What do you have against Dobrovolsky, Komarov, Patsayev and Volkov?
silenus
August 16, 2022, 12:47am
10
Right this minute? Fuck all Russians.
Harsh and parochial, but honest.
Gagarin should be first, surely?
Ian Banks’ spaceships names were much more…varied:
Bora Horza Gobuchul
Irregular Apocalypse
Prosthetic Conscience
Just Read The Instructions
A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
You Would If You Really Loved Me
…and so on.
Babylon One
Babylon Two
Babylon Three
Babylon Four
Babylon Five
That lack of telephone sanitizers is going to come back to haunt us at some point.
Darkblade
Deathscythe
Starslayer
Worldender
Sunkiller
Soulripper
Doombringer
Voidspreader
Hatefist
Hellmouth
If you’re going to travel the stars as a hippy commune, might as well be sarcastic while you do it…