Some of my more common names are

Leviathon

BlackJack

Patriot

Spartan

Carolina

Pandora

Athena

Icarus

I've named my Akkan: The Love Boat

KOL: Hyperion

Dunov: Galactica

Mazra: Agamemnon

Sova: Enterprise (in honor of the WWII carrier)

Heh. I do kinda the same thing....carriers after cities, battleships after mythological places (Eden, Olympus, etc...), support after greek gods, and dreadnoughts after roman gods.

lets see i usually use such names:

TEC

Kol     : RVX Carnifex

Marza : RVX Kraken/RVX Behemoth

Sova  : RVX Leviathan

Akkan : RVX Triumph

Dunov : RVX Tyranus

any flagships : RVX Emperor

Advent

(ok its a random stuff )

Helixea

Redempthion

Judgement

Empressia

Testamenthea

and some other names

Vasari

(same random ere)

Balor

Asmodeus

Belial

Belphegor

Mephisto

yes i know they're demon names but IT REALLY FITS for naming a bad ass invader alien race caps

not to mention I usually rename the first given homeworlds at the start

TEC   : Halicarnassus

Advent: Saturna

Vasari : Vandalor

and mid game where I always move my capital to another planet, i name that new capital as Imperium, regardless of any faction i'm playing

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I just thought I'd post my awesome ship names.

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Marza -- Liberator, Hydra, Typhon, Cthulhu

Kol -- Defiant, Victorius, Friday

Akkan -- Enterprise, Discovery, Endeavour, Prometheus

Sova -- Legion, Vigilant, Interceptor

Dunov -- Adroit, Atheist, Arbiter

Argonev Starbase -- Unity, Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Pantheon, Adroit, Pandemonium, Atlas, Contego, etc.

Starlancer.

I played the sh-t out of that game!

I name my ships once they've earned a name. For instance, I had a massive ding-dong with the Vasari over an asteroid I planted a flag on.

They had oodles of frigates and a carrier, and my light defence force wasn't fairing too well. I pulled my reserve Kol and all my other support ships into the fight (which brought the numbers on each side to about even).

Man, I know I should gush but it was so dramatic.. the Kol was almost destroyed, stayed in the fight long enough to put the carrier out of action and just made it out of the system alive.

The backbone of the Vasari assault was broken, and my frigates could handle the stragglers while the Kol limped out of the gravity well while under constant attack from bomber wings and back to the safety of my capital planet. I renamed the ship after the system it had protected (can't remember what it was called though, began with a 'K'), it was that epic - but I guess you had to be there (thousand yard stare)

The ability called 'Finest Hour' was well earned for that encounter.

I have such a hard on for this game.

TND aegia

I name first 3 or 4 caps starwars, british navy, mythology, other sci - fi names and sometimes change them based on events eg. I had a lvl10 radiance that died named Void Dragon and its resurrected  replacement (progenitor ultimate) was named wraith dragon oh and the progenitor got renamed Osiris' Word, or the kol that was renamed Vanidas' Hope after helping the Asteroid Vanidas repel repeated advent attacks.

Names I remember using

Executor (Vaders' flagship)

Aegis(usually on a dunov)

Void Pheonix (carrier flagship)

Pheonix (carrier)

Void Dragon (name of necron c'tan) (used on battleships or dreadnoughts)

Dragon (used on battleships or dreadnoughts)

Void Wraith (usually on support caps)

Wraith (usually on support caps)

Osiris' Word (on progenitor)

Wraith Dragon (battleships and resurrected battleships)

Armageddon (on dreadnoughts)

Darkstar (after debunked theory and the game Darkstar One)

Spectre (usually on support caps)

Gehenna (biblical old testament) (used on dreadnoughts)

Death Star (used only once on a modded Antorak that could kill almost anything on its own)

Indomitable (usually on battleships or flagships)

Kinesia (original random sins name I might have spelt it wrong)

Hydra (on carriers)



I like naming my ships after people, that way, it makes me more angry when I lose them:

Morgan Freeman

Mandela

Malcolm X

Ghandhi

Will Smith

Morpheus

As for planets, I don't much care about those...

I have a friend who always names all his planets NotHere...then he builds novaliths and when the game is lagging it can be a real pain to try and figure out which planets he is building them on

I often dont get time to name my capital ships, multiplayer is really fast that way... but if I am tec and i do get time, I tend to name my lv 6 marza something fuzzy.

TDN fluffy

TDN Cuddles

TDN Mittens

if i ever achieve 3 lv 6 akkans, i will name em:

TDN Cant

TDN Touch

TDN This

its too bad i mostly play vasari, and its harder to play tec now because everyone else hopped on the vasari bandwagon.

Various genital names, because it evokes many a laugh from my mates when they see their ships get destroyed by "Hardon" and the like.
When they do similar it just gets better

Heheheh

Tyranids