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