RE: [OFFICIAL] MORE NEW SHIPS.... (Class Names)

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Pugh [SMTP:steve@pugh.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 09:16
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	RE: [OFFICIAL] MORE NEW SHIPS.... (Class Names)
> 
> > > FT-1102	UNSC Diplomatic Courier
> >  Nobel class Courier. Named after Nobel Peace Prize winners.
> >  See http://www.nobel.se/ for a list of Laureates.
> 
> How about Peace class rather than Nobel class? Nobel himself (the 
> inventor of TNT) is hardly appropriate, and it avoids confusion over 
> any other classes named after other winners of other Nobel prizes.
> 
[Bri] Sounds good.

> > > FT-1103	UNSC Battle Corvette
> >  Tributary class (smaller rivers)
> > > FT-1104	Patrol Cutters (Frigate-sized)
> >  Parry/Savanna class 
> 
> Is that meant to be prairie?
> 
[Bri] Yea. That's what happens when you hit the OK on the spell check
too
quickly. :-\

[snip]
> >  Desert/Forest class (Simpson, Wayne, etc.)
> 
> Better stick to deserts, I'm sure there will be a lot more deserts 
> than forests left by 2180...
> 
[Bri] (Environmental comment withheld)

[snip]
> > > FT-1111	UNSC Battledreadnought (BDN)
> >  Comet class 
> 
> Including asteroids? In many cases the mythological names of the 
> asteroids will give much better sounding names than the astronomer 
> names of the comets. And many comets are rather short lived.
> 
[Bri] Also works.

[snip]
> >  Galaxy class (Milky Way, etc.)
> 
> UNS Milky Way? Oh dear... And after UNS Andromeda the names would be 
> less than inspiring. 
> 
> Remember that the Gaia and Sol class and named after 
> Continents/Oceans and Planets, not Planets and Stars (see quote 
> below). So I'd name the CVLs after stars and the CVHs after 
> Constellations.
> 
[Bri] I thought that the Sol class was named after stars. Sol, Alpha
Centuri, Betelgeuse. 

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> UNSC Superdreadnought (SDN) - Gaia class
> (Named for continents and other major features/areas on Earth - UNS
> Pacifica, UNS Atlantis, UNS Africa etc) 
> 
[Bri] I thought that the Gaia class was named after planets. Earth,
Mars...

> FT-1112A	UNSC Extended-Range Superdreadnought (SDN-X) - Sol class
> (Named for planets within Sol system - UNS Mars, UNS Terra, UNS
Neptune
> etc.)
> 
[Bri] As stated before, I thought that these were named for stars.
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> 
> > > FT-1115	UNSC Deeprange Explorer
> >  Author class (Niven, McCaffey...)
> 
> I'd keep the SF authors as the old Clarke class survey cruisers 
> (presumably built before the UNSC had it's shipbuilding programme up 
> and running). To keep the theme going these could be winners of the 
> Nobel prize for literature.
> 
> > > FT-1116	UNSC Fleet Replenishment Tender
> >   Atlantian class (ocean floor features)
> 
> Winners of the Nobel prize for economics?
> 
[Bri] I had thought about this also. Its a good idea.

>		Steve
> 
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