Sci-Fi Weapon Name Generator

How the Sci-fi Weapon Name Generator works

Sci-fi weapon name generator: the patterns behind each name

A sci-fi weapon is named by the company that made it or the person who carries it, and the generator gives four kinds across both. The sidearm is the pistol on the hip, a maker, a model and a type, the Quade M7 Sidearm, the Thorne K3 Service Pistol, the Kepler R9 Holdout, the Voss X2 Snub, or a corporation and a thing, the Thorne Aerospace Needle Pistol, the Halcyon Dynamics Wasp Pistol, the Okonkwo Yards Talon Pistol, or a corporation with a designation and a technology, the Kestrel Orbital KR-3 Coil Pistol, the Quade Systems MV-7 Pulse Pistol, the Lindqvist Heavy TX-1 Flechette Pistol, or the maker and the thing alone, the Orvane Hornet, the Castellan Viper, the Nakamura Sting, the Solano Ferret, or a world and a technology, the Luna Arc Pistol, the Kesh Gauss Pistol, or a maker, a technology and a type, the Ryker Ion Revolver, the Tanaka Beam Autopistol, since a sidearm is named the way a car is, by the firm and the model. The rifle is the long gun, a corporation and a thing, the Halcyon Dynamics Lance Rifle, the Orvane Industrial Falcon Rifle, the Solano-Reyes Hammer Rifle, or a world, a mark and a technology, the Vantage Mark IV Rail Carbine, the Meridian Mark VII Plasma Longarm, the Halden Mark II Scatter Repeater, or the maker's longarm, the Orvane Longarm, the Castellan Longarm, the Farrow Longarm, or a world and a pattern, the Meridian Pattern Pulse Rifle, the Tarsis Pattern Coil Rifle, the Sidon Pattern Needle Rifle, or a corporation, a designation and a type, the Ashgrove Fuels K41 Battle Rifle, the Vantage Logistics R88 Marksman Rifle, or a maker, a thing and a type, the Kepler Splinter Carbine, the Halloran Anvil Scattergun, which is a name that tells a quartermaster what to order and a soldier what to complain about. The ship weapon is the big one, a corporation and a cannon, the Tarsis Mining Breaker Cannon, the Meridian Freight Lance Cannon, the Okonkwo Yards Hammer Cannon, or a spinal weapon, the Castellan Spinal Lance, the Quade Spinal Driver, the Lindqvist Spinal Spear, or a torpedo array, the Farrow-Voss Torpedo Array, the Kestrel Orbital Torpedo Array, or a world and a battery, the Callix Particle Battery, the Aurelian Ion Battery, the Thule Kinetic Battery, or a turret or projector, the Thorne Mount Turret, the Nakamura Void Works Beam Projector, the Halcyon Dynamics Plasma Broadside, or a pattern, the Andrast Pattern Mass Cannon, the Lyrane Pattern Driver Cannon, or a ring driver, the Vantage IV-Ring Mass Driver, the Solano X-Ring Gauss Driver, since a ship weapon is named for its maker and its mount because nobody carries it. The named blade is the one weapon with a name of its own, a chosen word from the shared cast, Ledger, Tallow, Argent, Quill, Hesper, or an adjective and a noun, Cold Argument, Quiet Answer, Last Word, Patient Debt, Bitter Verdict, Kind Mercy, Plain Toll, the Long Silence, the Pale Reckoning, or a relation and a world, the Widow of Thule, the Orphan of Kestrine, the Heir of Callix, the Stranger of Kesh, the Witness of Luna, or a relation alone, the Widow, the Debtor, the Tenant, or a colour and a word, Grey Sorrel, Red Ember, Silver Wren, or a possessive, Ledger's Promise, Rue's Lesson, Odile's Remainder, or a noun and a world, Mercy of Veyra, Question of Ilion, Tithe of Halden, which is a name a weapon earns rather than a name it was sold under.

Sidearm gives the pistol. Rifle gives the long gun. Ship weapon gives the big one. Named blade gives the one with a name of its own.

The lists are original. The makers, corporations and worlds are the shared cast and companies of this section, the chosen words are the shared chosen names, and the model letters, weapon types, technologies, marks, adjectives, nouns, relations and colours are ordinary English of the kind every real arms catalogue uses; no published sci-fi weapon, franchise rifle, video game gun or real firearm appears in the lists, a match with a game, a film or a real arms maker's catalogue would be chance, since real weapons use letters, numbers and animals too, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the company on the receiver, the megacorp page; for the ship the spinal lance is bolted to, the starship name page; for the soldier carrying the rifle, the space marine page; for the gadget that is not a weapon, the sci-fi gadget page; and for the same blade in a world with dragons, the fantasy weapon page.

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