How to name a ship
14 Jun 2021Edwin G. Pixley
This may not be a glamorous subject, but I think it's a missed opportunity to name a ship haphazardly. So for mine, I chose to honor the people of the past that made this lifestyle even possible.Names like Kepler, Newton, Asimov, Gagarin, Kubrick, Mead and many others deserve to be honored.
So I chose to name my exploration and multi-purpose ships after astronomers. Trading, mining and passenger ships are named after physicists. Combat, bounty hunting and piracy ships names are picked from the domain of fiction: writers, movie directors, actors and fictional characters.
Which leaves me with the names of astronauts and aero-space engineers which I didn't assign to anything...