Talk:UNSC King Cotton

Naming Conventions
Hey Templar. This is Distant Tide. I saw your ship name an hour ago and I'm a little bit concerned about the ship's name.

King Cotton is historically associated with the Southern secession movement in American history for the proposed establishment of the Confederate States of America on grounds that the South's economic might through its Cotton production would mean the North would be unwilling to challenge secession or go to war over provocation. However, it is also associated with the slave economy given the history.

I'm not saying that you have to remove it, and, it can be argued that my concerns can easily be invalidated by a number of reasons such as the egalitarian view of history that the UNSC seems to maintain with the commemoration of supposed war criminals like Admiral Yamamoto for his role in the attack on Pearl Harbor and other examples. That said, I'm concerned both on the subject matter being discussed here might be a bit much, but also, not follow with naming conventions employed by the UNSC as a whole.

While there are a lot of Rule of Cool names, the UNSC does seem to have principles towards anti-secession/rebellion and against the promotion of views like slavery. Both on the grounds of not wanting to be associated with the concept for public relations and historical reasons.

Naming a ship King Cotton might give credit to Insurrectionists that the UNSC is a bunch of imperialists and use that to undermine the UNSC political message as a possibility. Anyway, I just thought I'd throw my two cents in. I wish you the best, hope everything is going well. If you need any help, you know where to contact me.

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