Is there any EP canonical source on whether particular groups/factions/hypercorps name their ships a particular way (all ships named after flowers, or famous people, or Old Earth cities), or if they have a particular designation before their name (either the hypercorp/habitat version of "USS" or "HMS" or the functional "MV")? For example, would Comet Express standard transports be called something like the ST Halley, ST Hale-Bopp, ST Perrine-Mrkos, etc? And two follow-ups: 1) Would any pre-Fall vessels with military designations (assuming that the spaceship is something like a transport craft and not obviously armed) keep those designations post-Fall when operated in regulated (Planetary Consortium, Jovian, etc.) space, or would re-registration with a new designation be required to avoid suspicion? For example, a small Belter salvage operation uses as one of its primary ships the troop transport SLOTV HMCS Farley Mowat, formerly of the RCAF. If they want to deliver something they found to a hypercorp, will whoever's checking incoming ships go to red alert if an "HMCS" pops up from a transponder, or are secondhand military vessels common enough that the missiles won't immediately be targeted? 2) What sort of measures are there to avoid transponder "shenanigans"? Say a Nine Lives "soul pirate" vessel is operating using cloned transponder information for a bulk hauler that would be, if anyone had access to the registration records, three times its size and using a completely different propulsion system. While still outside visual range, but at sufficient sensor range that it could be determined that, based on other indicia, this is the WRONG ship, how could a vessel without an outside mesh link figure out that the ship identified by transponder signal isn't the one they're about to meet up with?