I take no responsibility for the following list of eight names, other than that they’re in a notebook I own. His fault.
- Jack Dandy
- Man of Steam
- The Gurkha
- Ironclad
- The Boffin
- Bright Young Lad, his robotic sidekick/assistant
- Bulldog Jill
- Diamond Jubilee
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Date: 2004-02-20 09:15 pm (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2004-02-21 12:31 am (UTC)Dreadnaught
Maxim Gun*
Red Ensign
Fathom
Jack Tar
King Cotton
Governess
*anachronistic I think, but hey, it's super-tech
And, if we include the benighted heathen duskies of the Empire:
Mussulman
The Raj
White Man's Burden
Untouchable
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Date: 2004-02-21 07:41 pm (UTC)There's also plenty of candidates from British ship names; always the best named ships of English speaking navies/merchantmen:
Indefigatable
Cutty Sark (something to do with a shirt?)
Leviathan
The Gurka/Cutty Sark reminds me of the co-opted, backbone of the Empire Scots:
The Black Watch
The Fusilier
The Highlander
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Date: 2004-02-23 03:19 pm (UTC)But I have to throw in "The Noble Savage." You need one of these of course. Blue blooded chap raised by apes or wolves or lemurs or some such. Constantly fighting to restrain his savage urges and be a proper gentleman. I'm so totally about playing this kind of character.