Planet Names

The naming of planets is a difficult matter

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I can't find any other posts on this, so I'll start my own.

I name most planets after London Underground stations. Once I System Jump to a new star system, I'll switch to Paris metro stations.

  • Westminster
  • Kensington
  • Aldersgate

Asteroids I name "smaller" stations:

  • Blackfriar
  • Hammersmith
  • Ravenscourt
  • Moorgate

For Ice Planets I use:

  • Cryogen
  • Deep Freeze
  • Cold Fusion
  • Ice-9
  • Kelvin

Volcanic Planets I use:

  • Inferno
  • Vesuvius
  • Fahrenheit

I can't ever think of good desert planet names. After I've used Arrakis I'm at a loss...

I'm interested in other people's ideas. Now that we have Embankment, we can name starbases too, so Westminster gets Abbey, etc.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

^Haha, I use Arrakis for deserts to (especially if they have the spice trade bonus). I also barrow Geonosis and Tatooine from starwars, though after them I can't think of any more from Sci-fi. For the rest I usually have enough names from various Sci-fi movies, games, or books.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Hehe - I usually use Swedish, French, Russian & Japanese names, also random words from these 4 languages :borg:

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I usually use Norse, greek, or roman gods (beshides the panets in our own solar system) even the names of the valar and maiar in LOTR; I even use historically famous people.

constantine, charlemagne, napolean, Charles "the hammer" martel, tesla etc.

Oden, Zeus, Aphrodite, Morgoth, Ulmo etc.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I name mines from the 7 sins and the zodiac signs.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

 

I don't have time to think about planet names, but I play online multiplayer.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I tend to go by location on the map.

IE: Rock Sun = rock planet next to the sun.  Ice north/south.  It means i can know where problems are. works for me:)

Appart for my home world usualy Yanis Wair

 

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

1, 2, 3, etc. based on importance. At least, in big names with too many planets to remember them all.

Imaginitive, I know.

 

:fox:

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

i rly like the standard names, only usualy dont bother naming them, 

i do meet alot of people who name their homeworld  EARTH or something,

and ofcourse the usual asses wich have meaningless names or offensive ones

 

i do love borrowing planet names from WH 40k  Tau 

T'au being ofc. the homeworld

Bork'an being an important Ice world and so on

 

@Kitkun:

you use numbers?  that sounds horribly difficult to remeber, i just memorize every planet where something important could happen "chokepoints / empire borders / factory planets / designated enemy worlds"    it'd get confusing to use numbers for me :/

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top


I can't find any other posts on this, so I'll start my own.

I name most planets after London Underground stations. Once I System Jump to a new star system, I'll switch to Paris metro stations.


Westminster
Kensington
Aldersgate

Asteroids I name "smaller" stations:


Blackfriar
Hammersmith
Ravenscourt
Moorgate

For Ice Planets I use:


Cryogen
Deep Freeze
Cold Fusion
Ice-9
Kelvin

Volcanic Planets I use:


Inferno
Vesuvius
Fahrenheit

I can't ever think of good desert planet names. After I've used Arrakis I'm at a loss...

I'm interested in other people's ideas. Now that we have Embankment, we can name starbases too, so Westminster gets Abbey, etc.

you could use the names of big deserts on our planet. sahara, namibia, attacama, etc.

didn't people change the default name list at some point? I mean, you had to do that in a game file and it never quite worked for me, but it should be possible. don't know, if that messed with mp, but if you play mostly sp, why bother.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

I name planets by Star Wars planets names. Example:

My capital is Coruscant.

Planets: Corellia, Yavin IV...

Desert planets: Tatooine, Geonosis...

Ice planets: Hoth, Ziost...

Volcanic: Mustafar, Ennth...

Asteroids: Kessel, Ebaq 9...

 

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

If your really into a sport name them after the captains of the teams.  As I'm into hockey you can name like the following:

Defensive Planet: Luongo (Roberto Luongo, Captain AND Goalie for the Vancouver Canucks)
Planet near a sun:  Lecavalier (Vincent Lecavalier, Captain for the Tampa Bay Lightning)
Arid Planet: Doan (Shane Doan, Captain for the Phoenix Coyotes)
Capital Planet: Ovechkin (Alexander Ovechkin, Captain of the Washington Capitals)

Etc etc etc...

I'm into conspiracy theories, so I like to name at least one of my planets Niburu... after the giant thing thats going to kill us all (aka Planet X)

Care of: http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx

Myxinoidea
Cyclocephaly
Lacunaris
Eleuin

Name them after current names of moons of the planets in our very own solar system: http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/solarsys/Names.htm

Name one after a Google Whack: http://www.googlewhack.com/tally.pl

But your looking for a desert planet names, so I got a few:

Mauritania
Baja
Sunglint
Aral
Bo Hai
Gobi
Rub'al Khali
Thar
Atacama

 

But to be honest, nothing beats my all time favourite name for a planet... "My *insert body part*"

When you see a fleet arrive at "My Wang" it makes me laugh, especially if My Wang is getting raided by Pirates, hahahahahahahaha!

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Lol, funny post!!!

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

Wow you people actually change your planet's names?! I just leave them as they are

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Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

I name them in geographic relation to North Carolina.  So My home word is Charlotte and the others are things like Mathews, Wilmington, Raleigh and so forth.  I think I will name them 1, 2, 3 now.  I cant believe I have never thought of that.  Its kind of nice to see Chapel Hill bombed every once in a while though. 

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

I use major cities. London, Vancouver, Damascus, Vladivostok, anyone i feel like using at the time.

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

Desert planet names:

 

Azarath

Sonora

Nagano

Vespasian

Dune

Rith Essa

Goldwood

Anubis

Tawfret

Ichor

 

Fire/Lava planets:

 

Eschebone

Fira

Valkus

Nula

Ragnor

Ragnarok

Dendera

 

Ice Planets:

 

Corinth

Cerulean

Azura

Martyra

Rhea

Tethys

Mimas

Callisto

Gien

Coceila

 

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, you have that list in a word document or something?

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

I have mine in a *.txt file.

 

Which, I have to add, is still constantly evolving. The only thing I've completely settled on are my capital planets.

 

Advent Capitals: Elysium (Terran), Seraphim (Desert), Sanctuary (Ice), Valhalla (Volcanic), The Monolith (Asteroid)

TEC Capital: Xanadu HQ

Vasari Capital: Mhurad Prime

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

lol, not to be a jerk, but i still get a kick out of each 'serious' response to this...

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

I name my last planet Chuck Noris in a last effort to keep my opponents away. However, If I spell it correctly, Chuck Norris might send me a roundhouse kick to the face. An since it's spelled incorrectly, there is no substance behind it.

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

If I get a small fleet of 3 lv 6+ marzas, I name them Fluffy, Fuzzywuzzy, and Mittens...

Just something about 3 captains who talk like they have chainsmoked cigars since they were 10, piloting uberpwn ships... the irony is perfect.

Be perpared for overkill, jumping in to a system near you. 

 

(almost never in multiplayer... but it happend once when pirates were on, and i was eating them up)

Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Pbhead, reply 21
If I get a small fleet of 3 lv 6+ marzas, I name them Fluffy, Fuzzywuzzy, and Mittens...

Just something about 3 captains who talk like they have chainsmoked cigars since they were 10, piloting uberpwn ships... the irony is perfect.

Be perpared for overkill, jumping in to a system near you. 

 

(almost never in multiplayer... but it happend once when pirates were on, and i was eating them up)

rofl, i love it, well done

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

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Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

I typically don't rename my planets. However, I like giving an Ice Planet 'Fichina', after Star Fox. And with Advent, the home world has to be called 'Vatican'. XD

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

I don't often change the names of planets but on the odd occasion where me and an opponent are battling away over a single planet I'll take it and rename it Alderan or Hoth (if it's an Ice Planet) :D.

Other than that I've used names of Ancient Greek/Roman cities (Alexandria gets used a lot, as befits the 13 or so that Alexander the Great renamed >_>) and a couple of names from the Dresden Files/Discworld (naming my home planet Ankh-Morpork always gives me a kick :P)