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NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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It's not really the same kind of maneuverability to be honest. Hummingbirds hover in one spot and can move in any direction, not really the kind of thing these are going to be doing at all.
Also I've seen several people voting for wanting something cute and harmless... and including Selachii in their votes, which literally means Shark.
Meanwhile a Skate is literally a smaller less dangerous Ray.
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LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Vending machines are more deadly than sharks, Jaws did them a huge disservice.
Look at them:
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NavySeel
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Eh, if the same amount of people interacted with large sharks regularly as did Vending machines that statistic would be very different.
Endorfinator
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Cows too!
NavySeel
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Yeah, people don't herd sharks into enclosed areas...
LunaMoth
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Thought you just said cow tool 😑
Driven by Apathy
Formerly known as Brain_Caster
So, about the name(s)...
This is a warship. It has one job, and we will never build it for any other reason. Every last one of them we build is meant to do one thing: To do harm to the enemy.
Every part of our warships needs to be dedicated to that purpose, from the weapons, to the hull plating, to the sensors, to the engines. Naturally, this includes the names we give our ships. I therefore propose the following Starfleet policy:
Why? It's simple: The name is part of the ship's armament. It's a weapon. A weapon to inflict humiliation on the enemy.
I want the Romulan Prateor to grind his teeth as he's forced to read a report about how IRW Imperial Pride was gutted by UES Gentle Breeze. I want our enemies to break and rout as they are desperately trying to get away from UES Loving Embrace! I want them to live in terror of the thought of UES Cuddlebug assuming bombardment position above their worlds!
I want some Klingon Chancellor 50 years from now to take a look at a record of the Federation-Romulan war, laugh his ass off, and then decide it would be much safer to invade the Romulans instead of the Federation. After all, there's no honor in winning a fight against ships named like that. And the unspeakable shame if one should loose... a dreadful foe indeed.
[X] UES Hummingbird
[X] UES Magpie
This is a warship. It has one job, and we will never build it for any other reason. Every last one of them we build is meant to do one thing: To do harm to the enemy.
Every part of our warships needs to be dedicated to that purpose, from the weapons, to the hull plating, to the sensors, to the engines. Naturally, this includes the names we give our ships. I therefore propose the following Starfleet policy:
Starfleet Ship Naming Convention #1:
Ships meant for general use get conventional names with dignity, tradition and gravitas, like Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, etc, etc... Warships however, always get cutesy, non-threatening names. The nastier the warship, the more harmless the name.
Why? It's simple: The name is part of the ship's armament. It's a weapon. A weapon to inflict humiliation on the enemy.
I want the Romulan Prateor to grind his teeth as he's forced to read a report about how IRW Imperial Pride was gutted by UES Gentle Breeze. I want our enemies to break and rout as they are desperately trying to get away from UES Loving Embrace! I want them to live in terror of the thought of UES Cuddlebug assuming bombardment position above their worlds!
I want some Klingon Chancellor 50 years from now to take a look at a record of the Federation-Romulan war, laugh his ass off, and then decide it would be much safer to invade the Romulans instead of the Federation. After all, there's no honor in winning a fight against ships named like that. And the unspeakable shame if one should loose... a dreadful foe indeed.
[X] UES Hummingbird
[X] UES Magpie
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[X] UES hummingbird
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Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of the Federation ships that had things like the saucer section separating, the ship splitting into 3 pieces, and I'm vaguely remembering a few that had captain's shuttles nestled onto the center of the saucer.
[X] UES Skate
[X] UES Selachii
[X] UES Selachii
[X] UES Selachii
[X] UES Skate
[X] UES Skate