05-01-2022, 07:33 AM | #11 |
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Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names
The Interstellar Olympic Committee were not pleased when they found out how hard five linked rings would be. They've been paying for various kinds of astro-engineering research, and are rumoured to be planning to build large dust clouds in front of a star cluster.
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05-01-2022, 06:15 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names
40–60 light years in which direction? People naming the colonies might have taken inspiration from the constellation that the stars are in.
For example, if the sector is off to spinward in Herculis the colonies might be named for associates of Herakles in legend, such as Megara, Omphale, Deinara, Hebe, Thespios, Lavinia, Hylas, Iolaus, Elakatas, Admetos, Abderos, Iphitos, Nireus, Sostratos, Eurystheus, Adonis, Korythos, Nestor, Philoktetes, Diomus, Perithoas, and Phrix, not to mention Herkales' many sons and four daughters. Did you know that Herakles had three sons by a dragon? And people promoting colonies in Herculis might also name them after gods in other cultures that they wish to appeal to, and which were somehow similar to or once syncretised with Herakles: Bahram, Vajrapani, Mathura, Bhima, Thorr, Melkart, Agilaz, Beowulf, Cú Chullain, Gilgamesh, Lugalbanda, Samson…. Or after cities founded by Herakles, or Greek states ruled by Heraclid dynasties. If parts of the sector are in Centaurus some colonies might be named Nessos and Cheiron and so on. If it is in Carina some might be named after various argonauts and places visited by the Argo. If they are in Eridanus they might be named after rivers, if in Puppis after explorers and navigators, if in Indus after cities and places in India, if in Crater after people, places, and things involved in tales of the Holy Grail, such as Indiana.
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05-01-2022, 06:48 PM | #13 |
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In another vein, the most common name for settlements across all languages is a semantic equivalent of "new settlement" — New City, New Town, New Port, or New Village. There are towns and cities galore called Newtown, Newton, Newburgh, Neustadt, Nieuwestad, Villeneuve, Villanuova, Villanova, Novgorod, Novogrudok, Nové Město, Neapolis, Naples, Neuheim, Nyborg….
If your colonies were established by a series of ships delivering immigrants and trade goods to a groundport or landing field established by pioneers, and spreading out from there by air and surface transport, you might get a lot of old cities at transport interfaces named "First Landing", "Landing Field", "Space Port", "New Port", or "The City" in various languages. Break out Google translate and go to town!
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05-02-2022, 04:31 AM | #14 |
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And things like Hou New Zealand. Maori for new added to the old name. Or Nueva New York.
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05-02-2022, 11:04 AM | #15 |
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If settled by people from the USA, this list of place names may be useful. Feel free to have one of the Springfield's match perfectly with what's seen on The Simpsons.
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Meanwhile, in Schlock Mercenary, when Tagon's Toughs get a hold of a massive warship on the cheap, the onboard AI (who typically share the name of their ship) insists on being named Post-Dated Check Loan. They call him "Petey" for short (based on the pronunciation of PD), and when he later becomes a galactic power, he uses the initials "PD" for everything - his organization is called the Pluripotent Dominion, and he names ships things like Plaited Daisies (an Extortionator-class dreadnought) or Predictably Damaged (a Penetrator-class ship, which is accelerated to high speeds and uses forcefields to punch through a target vessel; they tend not to survive, hence the name).
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And to combine the two there is Newmarket.
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05-06-2022, 03:07 PM | #20 |
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Which leaves the possibility of pun names, akin to the capital of Jinx, Sirius Mater. In this case, a world in the grip of a glacial period, with the parts not buried under ice being reserved for farming. The main trading city is located in a permafrost region, and was named Chipping Ice by its British founder.
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