What names would you choose for post scarcity space stations?

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…

Potlatch.

Shippy McShipface.

Because this is what you get when you let people name things. :slight_smile:

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

What do you have against Dobrovolsky, Komarov, Patsayev and Volkov?

Right this minute? Fuck all Russians.

Harsh and parochial, but honest.

Dunmanifestin

Gagarin should be first, surely?

Never mind. Brain fart.

B Ark

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

Damfino

That lack of telephone sanitizers is going to come back to haunt us at some point.

  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  • Sleight of Hand
  • Valis
  • If You Say So
  • Lost Babylon
  • Presence
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Run Away Run Away
  • Ancient Future
  • That’s All Folks

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…