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 Sep 15 2003, 09:48 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 15-September 03 From: Shanghai, China Member No.: 5,618  |
Hi,
I always have trouble coming up with names for smaller corporations. My characters have finished only one run so far so I don't want them to play with the big corps... yet. So, I want to create a collection of names that are suitable for small to medium-sized corporations from all kinds of branches. tbd |
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Sep 15 2003, 09:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Try this! [Courtesy of nMath!]
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Sep 15 2003, 09:59 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,478 |
grab a yearbook, flip through it for unusual last names. or take the base technology, and mix it up with words like "Technology", "Advanced", etc. like, for genetics: Advantech Genetics, Inc. hyphenate two last names. add stuff like GmB (i have no idea what that stands for).
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Sep 15 2003, 10:04 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
GmbH and AG are the german equivalents of "ltd" and "inc." respectively, if I'm not mistaken.
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Sep 15 2003, 10:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,478 |
right, GmbH, that's the one. silly germans!
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Sep 15 2003, 12:45 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 4-September 03 Member No.: 5,582 |
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung :eek:
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Sep 15 2003, 06:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 26-February 02 From: harrisburg metroplex, pa Member No.: 623 |
Mad Monkey Corporation.
the owner drives a 4 yr old americar, not because he likes it mind you. because its the only car monkeys can drive. the monkeys have skillwires 4 because thats just what mad monkey corp does. |
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Sep 15 2003, 11:00 PM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Upside Magazine, or Fortune 500.
You can get some great names for all kindsa cyberpunk corps - from real corporations! Examples of some of the better ones I've found and used: Ringzero Communications Harbinger, Ltd. Galileo International Ethersys International. See? The marketing guys in the real world do all the work for us. |
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 Sep 16 2003, 03:52 PM
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The Sewer Jockey Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 857 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Kent, United Kingdom Member No.: 1,197 |
This may seem like a silly suggestion to some, but doodle!
Here at work, when my eyes get sore from trawling the DS Forums, I pull out a little pad and a pen, and I doodle. What do I doodle? Shadowrun Megacorporate Logos. Now, I don't nescesarily know what I'm gonna do before I start, so sometimes I start with an artistic theme, sometimes with a letter. Once you have something that looks like it would go nicely on a letterhead, make a name to match it. Obviously I can't reproduce the logos on here, but on the last two pages of my little pad are: Tower Industrial Electronics (based out of the Tower of London, no less... ;) ), Northstar Cybersystems Inc., Crisis Medi-Corp (Brit version of Docwagon), Optek Surveillance Technologies (small corp, but very high tech) and Sigma Information Technologies. The first and last are "regulars" of mine - representing, respectively, a Bad and a Good corp. Well, as good as any corp can be. I am particularly proud of my first ever S.I.T logo - a cartoon puppy with a datajack and a cyberdeck. "Sit, Fido!" |
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