# Naming Convention **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/naming-convention/2941 "2024-11-12T05:23:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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**BEING A SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AT STARFLIGHT SHIPYARDS, SELÉNE, CAGEWORKS TWO FOR FIRST QUARTER, 7399** **_IS Lunar Loom_** Custom design (orbital elevator constructor). Worlds’ Rim Development, ICC; paid in full. **_IS Alkahest of Conflict_** _Harbinger_-class diplomatic cruiser Galactic Arbitrations, ICC; paid in full. **_IS The Sun’s Brilliance Scatters All Shadows_** _False Dawn_-class orbital mirror tender Sahal & Moons Orbital Light and Power, ICC; 12% advanced, mortgage on delivery. **_CMS Rosy Conodont_** _Erlenmyer_-class chemical tanker Biolith Chemical Products, ICC; paid in full. _ **IS Authentic Communicative Ecstasy** __Starwing_-class courier, with aftermarket high-intensity communications laser (customer provision) Private sale; paid in full. **_CS Sufficiency_** _Apocalypse_-class battleship Imperial Navy, per construction contract 7930-02. **_IS Only Hard On The Outside_** _Adze_-class orbital construction platform Homesteads, ICC; six-year payment plan, first due on delivery. **_CMS Content Available In Your Area_** _Shadowcat_-class blockade runner Private sale, paid in full. **_CS State Sensor-Ship_** _Brazen_-class recon destroyer Imperial Navy, per construction contract 7930-02. **_CSS Neutrino Simulator_** _Peregrine_-class scout Imperial Exploratory Service, per construction contract 7930-01. _ **CMS Performative Optimism** __Profit_-class free trader Private sale; 12% advanced, mortgage on delivery. **_CSS Celeritous Sciencier_** _Breadboard_-class space research platform, no outfitting. Starleaper Initiative; payment on delivery. _ **CMS Perambulatory Debauch** _ _Pleasurable Company_-class liner Centralia Line, ICC; 12% advanced; mortgage on delivery. **_IS Seismic Dissection_** _Skoufer_-class smeltership Celestial Mining, ICC; paid in full. **_IS Premonitions of Debris_** _Brutal_-class cruiser By commission for Galek’s Gutrippers; 12% advanced, mortgage on delivery. **_CMS Insufficiently Hyped_** _Kalantha_-class frontier trader Private sale, payment on delivery. _ **CSS Algorithmic Beatitude** _ Merí-class executive yacht, without life support or internal fixtures Transcendent commission; deliver to Qerach for final fitting-out. **_CMS Peripatetic Pilgrim_** _Flatfoot_-class short-range passenger transport Cilmínar Orbital Charterships; 12% advanced, mortgage on delivery. **_IS Bright Aphelion_** _Icebox_-class shardcruiser Anniax Deep Black Development, ICC; 12% advanced, mortgage on delivery. **_CMS Generous Selfishness_** _Boxcar_-class modular trader Deliver to market. **_CMS Truth and Value_** _Procurer_-class freighter, Deliver to market. _ **IS Chariot of a Lesser Sun** __Sparklebug_-class power freighter Homesteads, ICC; six-year payment plan, first due on delivery. **_CMS Bandwidth Advantage_** _Wain_-class megafreighter Unnecessaries, ICC, under standing construction contract. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2019/04/17/naming-convention](https://eldraeverse.com/2019/04/17/naming-convention) ---
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**Comments migrated from WordPress:** > [@Ru \ on 2019-04-18 05:19:14 wrote](#): > > > _Harbinger_-class diplomatic cruiser > > With a name like that, it sounds a little more like a continuation-of-diplomacy-by-other-means cruiser. I guess it saves on velvet gloves, etc. > > > [@driagledd \ on 2019-04-20 09:32:23 wrote](#): > > > > “Alkahest” is a hypothetical universal solvent, so presumably it’s supposed ‘dissolve’ any conflict. Dissolving with a judicious application of firepower would be one way 😛 > [@Specialist290 \ on 2019-04-18 21:05:21 wrote](#): > > > CS State Sensor-Ship > > Does this pun actually work in Eldraeic the same way it does in English? > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2019-04-20 11:09:33 wrote](#): > > > > As Iain Banks said about a couple of his ship names, sometimes the cultural translation is very approximate. > > > > > [@Scott \ on 2019-04-24 01:26:55 wrote](#): > > > > > > Translation is an art, not a science. > > > > > > Translating puns is brutal. > > > > > > > [@Jade Nekotenshi \ on 2019-05-03 20:34:40 wrote](#): > > > > > > > > No, no, no! > > > > > > > > Translating puns is _punishing_, of course. ---
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