12. Crew Quarters - Red Shirt Space Condos (you might as well make them comfortable)

13. Docking Port - Deluxe Auto Wash Docking Port (Washes, waxes, and sterilises your vessels of all those space bugs. Free air fresheners)

I don't have a specific context in mind for this, just a vague idea of a smaller weapon called "Squirt Gun" and a larger version of it called "Super Soaker".

It would be easier to come up with modules if we knew a bit more about how modules worked and about the flagship itself. But lacking sufficient information, here are a few ideas:

Weapon Amplifier

More Dakka :: (Increases weapon firing speed)

*Dancing* Lights :: (Decreases weapon power, but allows it to rotate freely) ((I have no idea if ship customization will work like Star Con 2, where putting a weapon in a different area causes it to fire in different directions. But I had to have at least one reference to the Orz.))

Crew Module

*Happy Camper* Quarters :: (Increases the amount of crew members that can be on the ship.

some silly names from me, for starters:

Hyperdrive modules
    Snellman Fury I Hyperdrive
  
Thruster modules
    Kayiee-3 Thruster

Fuel Tanks
    Stardust Hoarder Mk V Container

Sensor Module
    Phamysht Nim-bal Vyzeera Sensor Module

Engine
    Lexite &%$1.equals*C/?42! Engine

Lander Armor
    Flexxor'o Armor

Lander Air Filter
    Menkmack Fjumbaca VII Air Filter

Landing Zone Targeters
    0RBITAL Decay 119 Targeters

Noise Dampener
    Vuaari Donacdum Dampener  

Jump Booster
    Doh-No Exquisite Booster

Atmosphereic Compensator
    Drenkend Equilibrator 0_0 Compensator

Crew Quarters
    Pymtek RUUM-4-1-M0 Quarters

    Pedrons Habitual-C Quarters

Docking Port
    Kalasautomat Docking Port

Weapon Amplifer
    Stroi:Togg 0P Amplificator

    Gwar-B-Q Weapon Amplifier

Shield Modulator
    Aaz-Num L3-Carapace Modulator

Inertia Dampener
    Crymsontech Chaos-1D Dampener

Battery
    Pinthi Pewdrops Core MkII battery

Spotted the Marvin the Martian fan!

From something that recently came up as a joke in the SFB forum...

Tardis Hangar Bay.  It's a lot bigger on the inside than it looks like it is from the outside;-)

Can we stop with the MK I, MK II and MK III? That's specifically what we're guarding against! They should have names all to themselves. They also should be descriptive, not just a string of numbers and letters or acronyms (px-10F, HDM, etc, those mean nothing to anyone), and lastly they should have something to do with what they're boosting - so people can identify with the module.

Just thinking out loud here -

Hyperdrive modules: Dimensional Shifting Pulsar or Photon Displacer, or something that collapses the space in front of you, to a more navigable, shorter distance. Something-Collapser.

Thruster: Phoenix Starshot, The Howling Wind

Fuel Tank: Pathfinder, Excursionist or Expeditionist-something. Odyssey is another cool word.

Sensor: Something that can see far, like a Hawk... Starhawk, Spacehawk etc, also Gazer, like Stargazer, but I'm using "star" too much. Maybe Stormfalcon?

Engine: Should be new technology-based names for propulsion - microwave, electromagnetic, whatever that race has decided to use for propulsion... bosons? Photons? Sophons? Space-folding?

Armor: Verdant Battalion Plating

Air Filter: Gaian Breeze

Crew Quarters: Vagabond something

Weapon Amplifier: Starhammer (though I am vehemently against weapon amplifiers in general, min/maxing bullshit)

Cloaking device: The Invisible Asteroid

I'd like to warn about the tendency to be too plain and banal in names. Imho names must have a hidden message, reference or acronymic joke in them, else they become plain and uninteresting and easily forgotten - nothing to remember.

What may seem to you as a letter or acronym gibberish, to some other people is actually a covert reference to certain things. Even then, this is one of the nicer things to discover (the meaning of) even much later, after completing to play the game. That's why I was asking whether we should explain the references or not, so that devs could figure out whether they were acceptable or not.

For example, in my case of Pymtek RUUM-41-M0 Crew Quarters, ruum refrers to "room", 41-M0 - to "for one more". There's even a song by Anthrax chanting: ...there's always "room for one more" which imho fits perfectly to crew quarters. Chaos-1D Dampener is a reference to the infamous album of Sepultura "Chaos AD" which is supposed to dampen the chaos. 0P is a reference to OP which widely means "overpowered". And so on...

There are of course just random numbers like Mk1 or V or -3 which indeed can be skipped if devs find it unfit. These numbers though may give a player an artificial impression of bigger scape of weapon upgrades in the game - which is not necessarily a bad thing. For example Landing Zone Targeters (Tektonic Sifter L2) might imply that now or later (by user-made contributions) in the game there might be a less and more powerful versions of it (L1 and L3) available which gives some reason for the player to aspire to acquire it.

The acronyms also give the upgrades imho a more techy and modern spirit. Mk numbers were also used in SC2.

Just my thoughts. Not a big game-breaking deal tho.

How about:

18. Storage Module (Small, Medium, Large)

 

 

Possible name: Quantum Drive Mass Storage Subsystem

It converts mass digitally and stores the data on a large RAID array of quantum drives.

Cuore held me at gunpoint and told me to put this here.