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Old 05-05-2022, 03:35 AM   #16
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Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf View Post
One of the things I liked about Niven's Known Space was that most of the colony worlds were named after something memorable about them. We Made It, for instance, where the colony slowship landed during the spring windstorms and was almost destroyed (the site of the landing is commemorated as Crashlanding City); or Plateau, a world with an unbreathably thick atmosphere except on a series of plateaus atop the world's tallest mountain, Mt. Lookitthat (named for the first words spoken when it was sighted, as the slowboat looked for a landing place - "Lookit that!").
...and then you get the ships from Ian M. Bank's Culture, who call themselves things like "Zero Gravitas" and "Fate amenable to change", being operated by somewhat eccentric AIs.
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