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Originally Posted by Phantasm
I'm working on my space opera setting, gearing up for a game set there. (My Marvel Shadowguard game is on hiatus again due to burnout.)
I'm looking for names I can use for cities, planets, space stations, and systems for a sector of space situated roughly 40 to 60 lightyears from Earth.
So, ideas? Functional, fanciful, pop/geek culture references and homages, "New $place_on_Earth", and mythological names are all welcome! You don't need to go into detail; I just suck at names (this is known).
And for the record, planet Bob is already accounted for! :)
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There's a book I've recommended several times.
Michael Grant's
A Guide to the Ancient World. It's basically a dictionary of classical place names.
Any who grew up watching Star Trek: TOS or Doctor Who will find many of these names sound familiar. Similarly, fans of Golden Age Sci Fi will also get some nostalgia with these names. The reason is that many of those writers drew their planetary names, consciously or not, from similar sources.