climber said:Surely MacArthur was a general and not actually a navy man. They name ships after great Admirals, Nimitz and such but I cant see why they would name a ship after a general.
Saying that was Otto VonBismarck an Admiral, I am sure he was founder of the german fleet
Nope, Bismarck was a politician, founder of Germany. The founder of the German Fleet was Alfred von Tirpitz.
Speaking of the German navy, some of the most famous ships (or infamous, depending how you want to see it) Where named after generals.
KMS Scharnhorst
KMS Gneisenau
KMS Blücher
BanditLOAF said:Unfortunately, we don't know what most Kilrathip ship names mean. We've have seen Kilrathi ships named after mythic warriors (KIS Karga), and ones named after 'concepts' (KIS Glory of Sivar, KIS Vengeance of Vukar Tag).
Maybe the Kilrathi named their ships after warriors and concepts that should guide a Kilrathi warrior .
That's what I think is how the swedish navy thought when they named some of their ships
HMSwS Äran (Honour)
HMSwS Manligheten (No good translation here, but something like "To be a Man")
HMSwS Ärligheten (Honesty)
HMSwS Rättvisan (Justice)
HMSwS Beredvilligheten (Willingness)
None of this ships exist to they though. Today the Swedish navy names their ships after cities or counties.
Anyway, the Kilrathi naming of ships is only a theory I have, but based on how their society was built it is perhaps the correct one