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Pragmatic · 11-26-2020, 04:02 PM

I remember in the Old Man's War series, there's a planet named Huckleberry. The survey pilot who named it had a thing for Mark Twain.

Then the bureau of colonization settled war refugees from India.

So the name doesn't HAVE to be logical, nor fit with the culture that settles the planet.

11-26-2020, 04:02 PM	#15
Pragmatic Ceci n'est pas une tag. Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Vancouver, WA (Portland Metro)	Re: How do you name planets? I remember in the Old Man's War series, there's a planet named Huckleberry. The survey pilot who named it had a thing for Mark Twain. Then the bureau of colonization settled war refugees from India. So the name doesn't HAVE to be logical, nor fit with the culture that settles the planet. __________________ I'm a collector, not a gamer. =)