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M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959; Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick; Bouton de Rose – French whaler ...
It passed through some changes afterwards, the broad categories of names are given here, with examples, however, if the name is the succession to a ship's name, it is excluded from following contents. Aircraft carriers—special names [1] (Many of them are an inheritance from the warship name in the Bakumatsu and the Meiji period). [2]
Lander – a ship used as a way to transport the crew of Europa One to the surface of Europa. It contains mining and recording materials to search for alien life under the surface of the moon. Excelsior – from the 1918 Danish film Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars), "The film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction."
Games of this type emphasize the life of a trader or merchant involving the transportation of goods or commodities for profit, [1] often as a free-lance agent, smuggler or privateer. References [ edit ]
The game was computer-moderated and open-ended. [1] [2] It was published by Distant Vistas as their first game. [3] According to the publisher, game design took four years. [4] The game was designed for single players. [3] By 1998, game enrollment had dropped to 15–20 players and the publisher was offering the game for free. [2]
Star Smuggler is a game for one in which the player is Duke Springer, who accumulates his fortune by trading any goods and services he can acquire using his starship in the ten-system Pavonis Sector to pay off his debt. [1]
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While the game has a similar look and stage presentation to Toaplan shooters on the same console, the gameplay is similar to that of a shooter from Compile. With each weapon the player collects, the ship earns an extra hit. Once the ship is hit by an attack, the ship degrades to the next selected weapon until the ship is down to its default weapon.