Union Ship Naming Club

The Union Ship Naming Club (USNC) is one of dozens of organizations within the Union that send suggestions to the Assembly for names to be given to Capital Ships in the United Stars Navy.

In a typical month, they will collect over fifty thousand suggestions from their members a month. Along with those suggestions, they add the names on the list they had sent to the Assembly the previous month that had not been selected and the most popular names that had been rejected because of an existing ship with that name. Then they will  follow a checklist.


 * 1) for exact or near duplicates, including audio duplicates using the common languages within the Union borders;


 * 1) Check to see if the proposed name is currently available by comparing it to list of current names used for Navy Ships.  The same near duplicate or audio duplicate test is applied here as well.

After tabulating the vote results, the USNC sends one thousand names to the Assembly, with one hundred of them being either names not previously accepted by the Assembly or names that had not been sent before because the name was in use until a month previously.
 * 1) Check to see if the Explorer Fleet, or one of the other branches of the Union Armed Forces is already using the proposed name or one similar to it.
 * 2) Once the three stage willowing process is completed, the remaining names are sent to the club members for a vote.