as if naming OCs isn't bad enough...
Jul. 27th, 2007 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI need a name for Anakin's starship. Oh my God, I hate my life.
Head, meet wall. *beats head into wall* It's already designed after Serenity, I can't name it after Serenity too. What's a properly post-Purge Anakin-esque name for a starship?
...yeah, yeah, I know, my flist's mostly CSI:NY people. ARGH.
I'd name it Puddlejumper, but we're talking Anakin Skywalker here, not John Sheppard, despite the fact that I once compared them in an essay as Satan as hero. Jack Sparrow also made an appearance. I'm going to shut up now and go watch The Holiday some more.
ETA: I've been going through the Wookiepedia files on SW starships, and Lucas and Co. are not that subtle. Not that this should surprise anyone who's seen one SW movie. You can tell which ship is on which side just by looking at the names: if it's an Imperial ship, it's named something like Ravager or Dominator. Oh, and a lovely Chains of Justice. (Or Interceptor. Who's writing that crossover? Shut up.) The Old Republic ships are a little more neutral: Katana or Resolution (this would be, like, a thousand years before the prequels. Or ten thousand. Or something). We do not, apparently, know many of the Galactic Republic ship names, but they tend to be of the "yay, happy" type: Perseverance and Indomitable. The Rebel Alliance has such stalwarts as Liberator and...excuse me, I have to go doublecheck if the Galactic Alliance, the Rebellion, and the Rebel Alliance are the same thing. ...apparently not. Unsurprisingly, the Rebellion and the Rebel Alliance are the same thing, but the Galactic Alliance is part of the New Republic, or follows the New Republic, or something. God, don't you love Star Wars?
Anyway, for the Reel Alliance, we have the lovely Liberator, the Independence, and the Liberty. Hands up everyone who's surprised. Moving forward a bit, we have the New Republic, which goes back to yay, happy moments with Tyrant's Bane and Alliance. Aw, and we have the Obi-Wan. Brief happy moment for everyone; Luke named a ship after his mentor. Moving forward a bit more, we have the Galactic Alliance ships -- apparently the Galactic Alliance follows Another Big War, Because We Can't All Have Peace Despite That Thousand Year Period Where We, Gasp, Had Peace. Or Something. And We Certainly Can't Keep The Same Damn Government -- Peerless, Protector, Rebel Dream -- which, apparently, was an Imperial ship called Tyrant, whereupon it was captured by the New Republic, recaptured by the Empire, recaptured by the New Republic, and was eventually transferred on to the Galactic Alliance -- and a bunch of other ships named after people, like the Bail Organa and the Mon Mothma.
And then we have the independents: the Millennium Falcon, the Ebon Hawk, the Dusty Duck, and a bunch of others. They got all the cool names, obviously. Anakin's ship is going to have a cool name. Possibly the Cat's Defiance.
...Yeah, I'm going to bed now.
Head, meet wall. *beats head into wall* It's already designed after Serenity, I can't name it after Serenity too. What's a properly post-Purge Anakin-esque name for a starship?
...yeah, yeah, I know, my flist's mostly CSI:NY people. ARGH.
I'd name it Puddlejumper, but we're talking Anakin Skywalker here, not John Sheppard, despite the fact that I once compared them in an essay as Satan as hero. Jack Sparrow also made an appearance. I'm going to shut up now and go watch The Holiday some more.
ETA: I've been going through the Wookiepedia files on SW starships, and Lucas and Co. are not that subtle. Not that this should surprise anyone who's seen one SW movie. You can tell which ship is on which side just by looking at the names: if it's an Imperial ship, it's named something like Ravager or Dominator. Oh, and a lovely Chains of Justice. (Or Interceptor. Who's writing that crossover? Shut up.) The Old Republic ships are a little more neutral: Katana or Resolution (this would be, like, a thousand years before the prequels. Or ten thousand. Or something). We do not, apparently, know many of the Galactic Republic ship names, but they tend to be of the "yay, happy" type: Perseverance and Indomitable. The Rebel Alliance has such stalwarts as Liberator and...excuse me, I have to go doublecheck if the Galactic Alliance, the Rebellion, and the Rebel Alliance are the same thing. ...apparently not. Unsurprisingly, the Rebellion and the Rebel Alliance are the same thing, but the Galactic Alliance is part of the New Republic, or follows the New Republic, or something. God, don't you love Star Wars?
Anyway, for the Reel Alliance, we have the lovely Liberator, the Independence, and the Liberty. Hands up everyone who's surprised. Moving forward a bit, we have the New Republic, which goes back to yay, happy moments with Tyrant's Bane and Alliance. Aw, and we have the Obi-Wan. Brief happy moment for everyone; Luke named a ship after his mentor. Moving forward a bit more, we have the Galactic Alliance ships -- apparently the Galactic Alliance follows Another Big War, Because We Can't All Have Peace Despite That Thousand Year Period Where We, Gasp, Had Peace. Or Something. And We Certainly Can't Keep The Same Damn Government -- Peerless, Protector, Rebel Dream -- which, apparently, was an Imperial ship called Tyrant, whereupon it was captured by the New Republic, recaptured by the Empire, recaptured by the New Republic, and was eventually transferred on to the Galactic Alliance -- and a bunch of other ships named after people, like the Bail Organa and the Mon Mothma.
And then we have the independents: the Millennium Falcon, the Ebon Hawk, the Dusty Duck, and a bunch of others. They got all the cool names, obviously. Anakin's ship is going to have a cool name. Possibly the Cat's Defiance.
...Yeah, I'm going to bed now.
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Date: 2007-07-28 04:42 am (UTC)Let's see...I know this might sound stupid, but how about Alliance?
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Date: 2007-07-28 05:18 am (UTC)*considers* I don't think it's properly Anakin-esque. I think he's more of the lone knight type, at least at this period of time -- I'm kind of leaning toward Cat's Defiance, because it's sort of anti-Empire-y, and "cat" brings up Schrodinger's Cat, and now I'm just reaching...yeah.