Aesthetic: Fed Civil Class Names

posted on November 27th, 2010, 12:35 am

  So I was noticing a miner in the Admiral's log (destroyed by my Serkas ) named the USS Ocean.


Kinda got me thinking:  How about altering the name of the Federation miner to be a geographical feature of Earth?  The Constructor is the Mediterranean Class.  Could it be a gimmick that Federation Civil Craft Classes be named things like "Mediterranean Class, Pacific Class, Atlantic Class, Andes Class, Alps Class, Arctic .... etc.)?

  Might be a fun way to tie in some Earth-Centric stuff .

posted on November 27th, 2010, 12:44 am

The Mandril Class got its name from a colony, so a better name theme for it would be something like colonies or cities. Maybe Federation-specific or including alien empires, but not limited to Earth.

posted on November 27th, 2010, 3:07 am

I think Boggz is talking about changing the name of the class, but I could be mistaken.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on November 27th, 2010, 4:36 am

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The Mediterranean Class is named after a colony on Alpha Centauri according to FO lore I'm afraid.

We've already got quite a lot of Earth centric stuff as it is - I'd like to see more of the 'Federation's' impact 

posted on November 27th, 2010, 4:48 am

Prehaps hit up memory alpha and what not and find features of various founding members of the federation to use.

posted on November 27th, 2010, 9:26 am

MA has a pretty long big of Federation, ex-Federation, Bajoran, Klingon, Cardassian & Demilitarized Zone colonies and planets. There is enough their to give the regular & Mixed-tech Mandril, both avatar and starting Mediteraneans entirely unique and modestly-sized lists without repeats.

The Mediterranean Class is named after a colony on Alpha Centauri according to FO lore I'm afraid.

Unless both Civilian ships get their name from the smae source, it's the Mandril Class that got the name from a colony.

Where did the Mandril Class get its name from?

Its the name of a fictional colony on Alpha Centaury, as we thought that there should also be some non-terran references on ships in the 24th century

posted on November 27th, 2010, 11:22 am

there could be two colonies in the alpha centauri system.

posted on November 27th, 2010, 3:16 pm

Yup, Tyler is right - I messed that up   

posted on November 27th, 2010, 7:43 pm

Tyler, AlphaCent is a human colony, just saying  .

[Tyler]

posted on November 27th, 2010, 7:50 pm

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It's not a Human colony, it's a Federation colony; all Earth colonies would became Federation colonies after it was founded. Except those that chose to become independant later on, which doesn't include Alpha Centuri.

posted on November 27th, 2010, 8:36 pm

Yep, we do want to add more non-terran stuff of the Fleet Operations universe as ship names. The current name lists already include ST references

posted on November 27th, 2010, 11:34 pm

Cool!

  Seems like it would be fun to start getting more "Federationy" stuff, even if it's just aesthetic, and get away from the purely Starfleet feeling of it