Starship Class Name Generator

How the Starship Class Name Generator works

Starship class name generator: how the names are built

A class is the name of a type of ship rather than of one ship, and a setting with a navy in it needs both, since a reader who knows the Vigilant is a Kestrine-class frigate knows what she can do. The generator names classes four ways. The named class is the navy's, in the manner of the real navies that name a class for the first ship built to it, a lead ship's name with class and a role, Vigilant-class cruiser, Resolute-class destroyer, Kestrel-class corvette, Anvil-class dreadnought, Bastion-class carrier, Warden-class escort, or a world of the shared setting of this section, Tarsis-class battleship, Halden-class frigate, Luna-class tender, Ceres-class tug, or the bare class name, Sentinel-class, Hammer-class, which is how the crews say it. The type designation is the bureaucrat's, a number in the manner of the real Type 45 and Mark IV, Type 47 corvette, Type-212 frigate, Mark IV destroyer, Mark IX carrier, Series 12 shuttle, Series 8 lander, or the role first, gunboat, Type 31, since a navy that has stopped naming its classes has a lot of ships. The manufacturer model is the shipyard's, the maker's name with a code and a number in the manner of the real aircraft makers, Halcyon Dynamics HD-900 freighter, Orvane Industrial OV-340 tanker, Thorne Aerospace TA-77, Okonkwo Yards OY-500 transport, Nakamura Void Works Mk VI courier, or the maker with a bird, since real aircraft makers have always liked birds, Thorne Aerospace Kestrel, Halcyon Dynamics Osprey shuttle, Kestrel Orbital Shrike, Farrow-Voss Petrel scout, Quade Systems Fulmar, which is how a freighter is known to the people who buy and fix them. The role class is the plain description, an adjective and a role, heavy cruiser, light carrier, fast frigate, armoured transport, long-range scout, deep-space tender, stealth corvette, strike carrier, siege dreadnought, jump freighter, or the old naval form, frigate of the line, cruiser of the line, or a weight, super-heavy battleship, pocket carrier, escort destroyer, planetary gunboat.

Named class gives the navy's. Type designation gives the bureaucrat's. Manufacturer model gives the shipyard's. Role class gives the plain description.

There is no gender option, since a class has none.

The lists are original. The lead-ship names and worlds are the shared setting of this section, the roles and adjectives are the ordinary naval words, the makers and codes are coined for this page, and the birds are ordinary ones; no published class or franchise name appears in them, a match with a novel, a series or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the ship herself, the starship name page; for the fleet the class serves in, the fleet name page; for the maker's parent company, the megacorp page; for the registry number a hull carries, the spacecraft registry page; and for the weapons the class mounts, the sci-fi weapon page.

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