How do you rename your ship in Starfield? While Bethesda’s epic space RPG doesn’t give you access to noble steeds that you can name and bond with like in Skyrim, you can instead brand your spaceship as you please. To do so, you’ll need to know how to rename your ship in Starfield. In this guide, we won’t just teach you how to do so, but will also offer up some of the best Starfield ship names you can designate to your mighty vessel. You’ll need to know the Starfield Ship Services Technician locations too, but don’t worry – we’ve got you covered.
Before we get into it, make sure you acquaint yourself with not only the full suite of Starfield ships available to you in the Xbox RPG game, but also the best Starfield ships and free Starfield ships that are worthy of taking up a slot in your fleet. The instructions you’ll find below, as well as some of the names in our best ship name list come courtesy of our Starfield review, so you know we’ve been busy renaming our crafts of choice in our own team lime green visage.
How to rename your ship in Starfield
To rename your Starfield ship, head to a Ship Services Technician and select the ‘I’d like to view and modify my ships’ option. From there, open the ‘Ship Builder’ menu and choose the ‘Flight Check’ option. Finally, select ‘Rename Ship’, allowing you to rename your ship.
You can name your ship whatever you like – rude things included – as long as it remains within 14 characters, free of charge. While this means you won’t be able to be too extravagant with the title you bequeath your ship, it does at least give you the chance to give your vessel a more personal touch. Just don’t get too attached to your star-faring steed, in case it gets blown to bits during battle – you’ll probably have to pay off a Starfield bounty after what happens next.
Starfield Ship Services Technician locations
Starfield Ship Services Technicians can be found in the following locations:
- Akila City, Akila, Cheyenne
- Crimson Fleet Base, The Key, Kryx
- Cydonia, Mars, Sol
- Deimos Staryard, Mars, Sol
- Eleos Retreat, Ixyll II, Ixyll
- Gagarin City, Gagarin, Alpha Centauri
- Hopetown, Polvo, Valo
- Neon City, Neon, Volii Alpha
- New Atlantis, Jemison, Alpha Centauri
- New Homestead, Titan, Sol
- Paradiso, Porrima II, Porrima
- Stroud-Eklund Staryard, Dalvik, Narion
For exact locations, check out this video from ‘SwanyPlaysGames’ below.
As you can see, while some of the Ship Techs only go by that title, there are named NPCs such as Havershaw and Jasmine Durand who will also let you modify and rename your Starfield ship.
Best Starfield ship names
It’s a bit of a cop-out to say that the best Starfield ship name is the one you resonate the most with when you stare into the gleaming metal heart of your beloved vessel. Alternatively, creative Redditors have been busy mind mapping ship names that carry a bit more edge to them. We on the other hand prefer to get a little bit cheesy with it – Hullander, Ship Skylark, and Patrick Star are all chilling in our fleet right now.
Below you’ll find a suite of some of the best Starfield ship names, composed of iconic spaceships from across popular culture:
- Endurance (Interstellar)
- Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)
- Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
- Heighliner (Dune)
- Moonraker (Moonraker)
- Normandy (Mass Effect)
- Starkiller (Star Wars)
- TARDIS (Doctor Who)
- The Benatar (Guardians of the Galaxy)
- The Falcon (Star Wars)
- Thunderbird 3 (Thunderbirds)
- UNSC Infinity (Halo)
- Prometheus (Prometheus)
- USS Enterprise (Star Trek)
And that’s how to rename your ship in Starfield, as well as all the Ship Services Technician locations and best Starfield Ship names we can conjure up right now. Let’s just hope your freshly-renamed ship doesn’t become home to a Starfield Terrormorph when you’re out exploring the Starfield planets…
Still looking for more? While a good Starfield wiki can be a handy source of information, our new Starfield Database goes further, offering you daily news, searchable databanks, and even interactive tools.