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Siegfried...USS Eroica? aren't you missing a "t"????
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I have a Siegfried class and a Tannhauser class as well, but I got them second-hand rather directly from the opera. I named Siegfried from the old silent German film and Tannhaeuser comes from Blade Runner (Roy Batty: "I've watched c-beams flicker in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate."). I also have a Diana; I originally named her after the goddess, but for the ship's crest I used the late Princess of Wales' coat of arms.
Anyways, the only reason I have all these names is to impress people with my vast knowledge of arcane subjects
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Masao, you want arcane? Look though my Excelsior-class names. 3900 ships mostly taken from obscure Earth history. (e.g., USS Heracleopolis Magna)
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When my web domain is finally ready to take public, y'all will have a chance to comment on my listing (thus far). I haven't bothered to count, though, so I don't know how many I've actually got.
As for the Anglo ship names thing... As Gene's inspiration was Royal Navy/Horatio Hornblower, the majority of ship names are Royal Navy -- moreso even than the American Navy. I've compiled a run-down for ya:
First, the Royal Navy, as most non-American ship names hail from there:
Hood Excalibur Exeter Valiant Reliant Excelsior Fearless Sentinel Thunderchild Sutherland Repulse Ajax Agamemnon Melbourne Sydney Victory Miranda Ulysses Leeds Odyssey Prometheus Drake Majestic Endeavour Wellington Venture [also an American ship] Pegasus [also an American ship] Nautilus [also an American ship] Essex [also an American ship] Phoenix [also an American ship] Apollo [also an American ship] Bellerophon [also an American ship] Jupiter [semi-canon, also an American ship]
Japanese:
Yamaguchi [I'm assuming the Trek ship is NOT named after the skater] Akagi Yamato Kongo Akira Hiroshima Musashi Okinawa Honshu Kyushu Hokkaido
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Very nice work! Thunderchild is from 'The War of the Worlds' and, as far as I know, was not a real RN ship. The correct spelling from the novel is Thunder Child, by the way. Malinche - I though someone here once mentioned that she was some "traitorous bitch" from Mexico who gave her people up to Cortez or something. Tripoli - Since this is in North Africa, might it be Arabic?
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Oh, that's not even all. Among other names in my ancestry are "Leidig", which means "unpleasant", and "Sackbauer", in which "Bauer" means "farmer", and "Sack", while normally meaning "bag" or "sack", can apparently also mean "balls" or "lazy".
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Impressive run-down Peregrinus, I use similar influences for my fleet listings and class naming strategies. Particularly the greek/roman mythological names for the early starships.
But I want to bring up the actual origin of the name/word Wambundu for the class name. Does anyone know from where this derives? It does indeed sound African but I just don't know exactly where it comes from. But as an obviously non-canon speculated footnote in my listings for this class, I explained the name Wambundu away as being named after a 22nd century Federation President. In reality, I'm at a loss for the actual origin.
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TSN: It must have been a bad day when you took the dictionary and discovered that your name means nothing, and you have unpleasant and lazy ancestors and one named "F*cker".
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