Forum:CT Archive/"the" ship names

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From the Manual of Style:


 * Names of specific spaceships should be:
 * Capitalized
 * Italicized
 * Used without the definite article
 * e.g.
 * "Thunderflare operated in the Core region."
 * NOT "The Thunderflare operated in the Core region."
 * Preceded by the appropriate Ship prefix. If the prefix is unknown, do not create one.

So... Han Solo was the captain of Millennium Falcon? Say that out loud, see if it sounds right.

Does this seem just flat-out incorrect to anyone else? Outside of this wiki, I can't think of a single instance where "the" did not appear before the name of a ship, be it the Executor, the Invisible Hand, the New Hope, or the Havoc. With the exception of the Slave series, now that I think about it, it seems to me that the omission of the definite article before ship names isn't such a hard rule and should be decided on a ship-to-ship basis.

I move to have "Used without the difinite article" stricken from the Manual of Style. -- SM-716 ...talk? 21:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)