Theemile wrote:ThinksMarkedly wrote:The RMN appears to mostly follow a theme when naming the ships in a given class, like apparently most navies do. Examples of this are the Courageous-class CLs (positive adjectives, like Fearless and Audacious), Illustrious-class CLs, Edward Saganami-class CAs (famous or important navy personnel), and the Invictus-class SD(P)s (the letter I and mostly adjectives).
Unfortunatly, different flights of ships seems to follow different naming conventions - for-ex the Star Knight class. Flight 1 was Star -
whatever, so we get Star Warrior, Star Witch, etc. Flight II was "Magic user's" names, or Sorcerer, Witch, Warlock. Then Fearless, Valiant were both ex-courageous class ships names.
Yeah, that's what I meant with mostly followed. There are exceptions, especially List of Honor ships that must reappear, regardless of the theme. Or political honoring, like HMS Second Yeltsin, an Invictus-class SD(P) (although you could make the argument that "Second" doesn't count and who knows whether Y and I haven't merged in the next 2000 years).
But there is a theme that they attempt in the beginning.
Sag Cs were first names after apex predators, (Hexapuma, Smiledon) semi-precious stones (Onyx), and finally RMN post-humus heros.
Lately, it seems all the conventions are out the window at some point and the now long pantheon of RMN heros all get their names on whatever ships is next laid down; Adm Alex McKeon gets a Sag-C along with Bob's uncle who saved those 2 kids in the boat bay fire - there doesn't seen to be a convention anymore.
By the way, where's the HMS Travis Long? And on the same line, is a Capt. (SG) Jessica Epps going to show up on the next MA novel?
Meanwhile all 150 Prince Consort class CAs seem to start with prince or princess, and all 25 King William SDs start with King or Queen, meaning the entire class follows the naming convention
Unfortunately, those are two classes where the pool of available names is actually pretty limited. As I argued in the numbering inconsistency thread, there are far more Prince Consort ships than there are princes and princesses consort. So they could only have named the first 16 or so after actual consorts. Ditto for the King William: there weren't enough monarchs and even fewer unique names. Would be quite confusing if there were at the same time an HMS Queen Elizabeth I and HMS Queen Elizabeth II. Unless they began using historical kings and queens too, like an HMS King Solomon, HMS Queen Mary (of Scots) and HMS King Louis any of the 17 of them).
I'm just saying that all along, sometimes those themes have only gone so far - especially with the larger classes, and unless we're certain, I'd be careful how far you went.
Yeah, but we can try to have some fun, at least.
