What feels like a million years ago, I picked up a fascinating geek-press book titled "History of the Vessel Enterprise." Trekkie book, obviously; it was basically a list of all the ships named Enterprise anywhere ever, up to about 1990 (in real-life terms) and continuing through to the Trekverse history.
Fascinating stuff, really. It turns out there were a *hell* of a lot more Enterprises than you might think. Well over a hundred of them, in fact, and many of them with overlapping service periods.
So what, you ask? Well, it certainly seems to me that registrars of the past and present didn't have a problem with multiple ships having the same name. Fenspace has many thousands of people in it, there's always going to be some overlap. *Let* the fen choose their names as they will, as long as the ships aren't completely identical what does it matter?---
Mr. Fnord
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Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Fascinating stuff, really. It turns out there were a *hell* of a lot more Enterprises than you might think. Well over a hundred of them, in fact, and many of them with overlapping service periods.
So what, you ask? Well, it certainly seems to me that registrars of the past and present didn't have a problem with multiple ships having the same name. Fenspace has many thousands of people in it, there's always going to be some overlap. *Let* the fen choose their names as they will, as long as the ships aren't completely identical what does it matter?---
Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"