i like the ship names other posters mentioned from The Culture and Halo (never read anything with the culture tho)
Dialectical Materialism would be a great name for the future communist space fleet’s biggest ship/ship with biggest weapons, and should have built-in busts/statues of Marx and Engels built into the hull in a central forward position like Outer Heaven in MGS4
mildly obscene levels of nerd spacecraft fantasizing contained herein
if i had my ideal personal spacecraft (something around the size of the Millenium Falcon, like enough room for a cockpit, and a couch/bed/crew lounge/cargo area, but with a smoother rounded/aerodynamic/winged hull, and mechanical limbs equipped with thrusters for aerial agility, VTOL landing in uneven terrain, and combat engineering tasks and definitely not melee combat, all in a vaguely humanoid-with-a-flat-horizontal-torso configuration kinda like the Gerwalk mode from Robotech combined with the aerial bossfight from Titanfall 2, specced for speed and handling in both vaccum and atmosphere as much as a ship that size could handle), i would name it Soviet Jazz (Советский Джаз, painted on the hull in white) and paint it red.
also the Lancer RPG comp/con app mecha name generator is amazing and everything it comes up with is pure gold, after seeing comments in this thread i’m convinced they were heavily inspired by The Culture
i like the ship names other posters mentioned from The Culture and Halo (never read anything with the culture tho)
Dialectical Materialism would be a great name for the future communist space fleet’s biggest ship/ship with biggest weapons, and should have built-in busts/statues of Marx and Engels built into the hull in a central forward position like Outer Heaven in MGS4
mildly obscene levels of nerd spacecraft fantasizing contained herein
if i had my ideal personal spacecraft (something around the size of the Millenium Falcon, like enough room for a cockpit, and a couch/bed/crew lounge/cargo area, but with a smoother rounded/aerodynamic/winged hull, and mechanical limbs equipped with thrusters for aerial agility, VTOL landing in uneven terrain, and combat engineering tasks and definitely not melee combat, all in a vaguely humanoid-with-a-flat-horizontal-torso configuration kinda like the Gerwalk mode from Robotech combined with the aerial bossfight from Titanfall 2, specced for speed and handling in both vaccum and atmosphere as much as a ship that size could handle), i would name it Soviet Jazz (Советский Джаз, painted on the hull in white) and paint it red.
also the Lancer RPG comp/con app mecha name generator is amazing and everything it comes up with is pure gold, after seeing comments in this thread i’m convinced they were heavily inspired by The Culture
Lancer was heavily inspired by the Culture, yeah. Hard to avoid the big names in utopian communist science fiction