Thursday, July 3, 2014

Name Generator for Supercomputers


On the odd occasion in both real-life and science-fiction roleplaying games, computers will require names. This is particularly true of supercomputers, or computers hosted within one organisation that need to be differentiated from one-another ... rather than them all being called (for example) "jabberjabber's computer" (and so forth).  

So today's blog entry is a name generator for such computers and supercomputers.  Along the lines of the English and French place names / battle sites I posted a while ago, this is done by combining two different elements together. Select one element from the first column and then run it together with another element selected -- at random or otherwise -- from the second column.


Element One
Element Two
Alpha
Beacon
Azure
Bolt
Black
Canticle
Blue
Carbon
Bold
Choral
Bright
Cobalt
Cardinal
Electron
Celestial
Engine
Cerulean
Field
Dark
Fire
Deep
Flame
Empyrean
Galaxy
Fleet
Gold
Green
Harmony
Hot
Hymn
Jade
Ice
Omega
Iron
Pale
Krypton
Quantum
Machine
Radiant
Mithril
Raw
Monsoon
Rebel
Net
Red
Oxygen
Rich
Platinum
Shadow
Proton
Sharp
Silicon
Sky
Star
Sonic
Steel
Vibrant
Storm
White
Thought
Zed
2000 (or another number of your liking!)

With this, we can obtain names like: RedSteel, BlueCarbon, DarkIron, PaleGold, RawHarmony, Quantum-2000. Coincidentally, some of these sound like starship-esque names to my ear as well.

But the astute amongst you will certainly be able to see real-world and science-fiction example such as: DeepThought, SkyNet … although I couldn't quite get DeepBlue to work, but heck, reversing the order of the elements would yield this and such inverting can be sound good to the ear as well! 

Enjoy!

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