Drone Name Generator

How the Drone Name Generator works

How the drone name generator works

A drone is a machine with no one aboard, so its name belongs to the factory, the formation, the operator or the log, and the generator gives all four. The model designation is the factory's, in the manner of the real aircraft, a bird and a mark, Kestrel Mk III, Shrike Mk I, Petrel Mk V, or a maker's code with an insect, HD-12 Gnat, OV-47 Hornet, TA-300 Mayfly, or the maker's full form, Halcyon Dynamics Survey Drone Type 4, Thorne Aerospace Strike Drone Type 2, or the role and mark, Recon Drone Mk II, Courier Drone Mk IV, or the bureaucrat's type, Type 22 Hornet, Type 9 Midge, since the small ones are named for insects and the fast ones for birds. The swarm name is the formation's, a phonetic letter, Swarm Delta, Flight Sierra, or an ordinal, the Third Flight, the Ninth Swarm, or the insect that the drones are, Hornet Group, Locust Swarm, Wasp Group, or the full address, the Second Swarm, Beetle Group, which is what the controller says when a hundred machines lift at once. The operator nickname is the one the person at the console gives, and operators name drones for being small and annoying, Buzz, Pest, Bug, the Nuisance, Ticker, Whizz, Flit, Blip, Speck, Mote, Little Pixie, Little Dart, or for the fault they have learned to live with, Old Wobbly, Shaky, Rattly, Drifty, Twitchy, Wonky, since a drone that comes back every time earns a name and a drone that does not earns a replacement. The flight log is the record, Airframe 0412, Airframe 7734-Kilo, Tail 7-Kilo, Unit 31 of Swarm Bravo, Delta 14, Survey, Recon 22, Third Flight, which is the drone as the log sees it, an airframe number and a slot in a formation.

Model designation gives the factory's. Swarm name gives the formation's. Operator nickname gives the console's. Flight log gives the record.

There is no gender option, since a drone has none and an operator's nickname is for a temperament rather than a person.

The lists are original. The birds and insects are real animals, the makers are the shared setting of this section, the codes and marks are ordinary aircraft forms, the phonetic alphabet is the real one and the nicknames are ordinary words; no published drone, swarm or franchise name appears in the lists, a match with a film, a series or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the machine big enough to walk, the mech name page; for the drone that stays on the ground and does the work, the robot name page; for the operator's own callsign, the callsign page; for the mind that runs the swarm, the AI name page; and for the maker on the airframe, the megacorp page.

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