Okay y'all!

What're your favorite spaceship names (that aren't from Ian Banks)?

The one I keep coming back to is "Pillar of Autumn" from Halo 1. Something about that name is just perfection.

But the new fast-upcoming contender is "Weeping Somnambulist" from The Expanse.

@starkatt If I can't use Banks, then I think I'd have to pick ship names from the Star Trek 'verse. They really go out of there way to make a naming scheme that pays attention to current naval traditions (using the class name as the ship name for the first ship of a given class, and adding letter designators to historically significant or legacy names.

@starkatt I'm kinda fond of Hot Needle Of Inquiry, or Lying Bastard, both from Niven's Ringworld series. :-)

@starkatt Torquemada's Monkey Wrench was the name of a ship in a SW tabletop game I was in once, and it's always stuck in my head.

@starkatt In no particular order:
* Leaky Reactor
* Smuggling Freighter
* Not A Covert Op
* Secretariat's Seventh Cousin
* Several Leftover Fasteners
* We Make Holes In Teeth
And of course, the perennial favorite:
* Minimum Safe Distance

@starkatt Oh shit, you meant actual ships from works of fiction. These are all names my old gaming group brainstormed up for a spacefaring campaign.

@Soreth @starkatt I am cackling helplessly at these, they are all magnificent. "Several Leftover Fasteners" is my personal favorite.

@green @starkatt I'm pretty sure we'd just assembled something from Ikea and that was... inspirational. :)

@starkatt am I allowed to use names from my own projects

Because if so

Spinward By Candlelight
Guess Who Forgot To Read The Instructions? (aka Guess Who...?)
A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
I Blame The Bees
Allergic To Concrete
I’m Sorry For The Black Rose

@starkatt Thank you! They are, unsurprisingly, influenced by Banks.

There is also one starship in this story with the placeholder name of "Heart Of Gold", which I am definitely not allowed to replace with "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig".

@starkatt this is less "favorites," exactly, and more "I got to this page of the book giggled, and remembered you asked this question." unfortunately this app won't let me copypasta, only screenshot?

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