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ting-bu-dong
post Sep 15 2003, 09:48 AM
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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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DV8
post Sep 15 2003, 09:55 AM
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Try this! [Courtesy of nMath!]
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motorfirebox
post Sep 15 2003, 09:59 AM
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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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post Sep 15 2003, 10:04 AM
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GmbH and AG are the german equivalents of "ltd" and "inc." respectively, if I'm not mistaken.
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post Sep 15 2003, 10:11 AM
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right, GmbH, that's the one. silly germans!
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post Sep 15 2003, 12:45 PM
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Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung :eek:
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post Sep 15 2003, 06:09 PM
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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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post Sep 15 2003, 11:00 PM
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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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post Sep 16 2003, 03:52 PM
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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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