Quick Ship Names
Jobber blog post for eternal Mothership Month Glory. Maybe.
You ever need ship names? I do. I also make playlists for my players so:
- Pick a song (e.g. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love) and get the track list for its first album appearance.
- Artist Initials are the ship line, album publishing year is the model. I like to pad these out with zeroes so it feels more sci fi (TC001992). Anagram or chop up the album name for the line's name. Or just use it as is.
- Song titles off the album are the ship callsigns.
- If an album's worth of ship names isn't enough, start plundering the songs' lyrics for more names.
So here's the callsigns for 5 TC001992 "Wish" ships the players might encounter:
Open, A Letter To Elise, Wendy Time, Dressed up to the Eyes, Sunday always comes too Late
(image source: NASA)