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Naming Your Colony World
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So! You've left Earth and settled a new world? Good for you! Now comes the part where you name it. You might want to follow the traditions laid down by the settlers before you: | |
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In Confederation of Valor, the main character grew up on a colony called Paradise. | |
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There are petitions on Change.Org to rename a nebula to "Madokami" and a newly discovered planet to "Gallifrey". Some signatories cite the argument that "fiction is just new mythology, and plenty of stuff already has a mythological name", other signatories cite a wish to acknowledge and promote the show and/or its ideals, and still others are taking it too seriously or not seriously at all. note "Book of Homu Homu?" Really? . | |
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Dune mentions a planet called Bela Tegeuse, which may be a corruption of Betelgeuse. | |
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Andromeda Nebula: 61 Cygni. | |
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The Saga of Seven Suns: Boone's Crossing, Forrey's Folley, Barrymore's Rock. | |
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Jacob's Ladder Trilogy: The crew of the Jacob's Ladder call their destination planet "Grail", because it's the goal of their long quest and because Jacob Dust gave the ship medieval-Arthurian storybook stylings. | |
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Homeworld: The artefact that proves that the planet's population are descended from Ancient Astronauts has a star-map etched on it, with their language's word for "home" (Hiigara) above a particular set of coordinates. Whether this is what their ancestors actually called it when they lived there is never stated outright, but the name "Hiigara" sticks. The manual for Homeworld II implies that this was indeed the name of the planet. | |
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Master of Orion: The Antarans come from the planet Antares. | |
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Mirabile is about a colony world of that name; it means "wonderful" or "marvelous" in Latin and Italian. | |
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' Revelation Space has Marco's Eye, the moon of the planet Yellowstone. Named after one of the earliest explorer's of the planet's star system. | |
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2300 AD has Moiroi, and it's moons Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. | |
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Downward to the Earth: Holman's World, known to its natives as Belzagor. | |
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Honor Harrington has a base called DuQuesne. | |
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Adaptation. has Genoa and Texcoco. | |
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In Spaceforce (2012)'s United Worlds of Earth, the older colony worlds were given 'cheesy' names like Hope, Inspiration and Horizon. | |
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Childe Cycle: Cassida, Coby, Dunnin's World. | |
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Earth 2 has G889 | |
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In The Interdependency, the capital of the titular empire is on a lifeless rock known as Xi'an (in Real Life, it's the capital of Shaanxi Province in China). Two other colonies are also named Dalasýsla and Ponthieu. | |
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A Blurred Line gives us Paradise. | |
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X: Argon Prime (originally "Sonra IV") was named for the leader of the colonists who settled there, Nathan R. Gunne. A couple of centuries of lingual drift altering the pronunciation and you get "Argon" out of that. The first extrasolar human colony world was named "Aldrin", after Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon. |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and its Alien Crossfire expansion give us a couple of these: The Data Angels, cyberpunky hackers, have bases called Googleplex and Tears In Rain. The militaristic, self-described survivalist Spartan Federation has Farnham's Freehold. |
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The Night's Dawn Trilogy has Perseus, Romulus, Remus, and Pallas. | |
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The Outer Limits (1963) episode "Wolf 359" had Dundee Planet. | |
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Humanx Commonwealth has Annubis (sic). | |
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Alien: The first film is set on LV426. Aliens renames it Acheron, a reference to the mythological river of the underworld. | |
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In The Little Prince, the title character lives on asteroid B612. | |
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Catteni: Botany, founded as a Penal Colony, is named after Botany Bay, the site of Britain's first penal colony in Australia. | |
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Dragon's Egg: The title refers to a neutron star, so named because it first appeared beneath Draco, as if the constellation had laid an egg. | |
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The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge, has Tiamat. | |
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Arcadia colony appears in Halo Wars. Arcadia would also appear in a list of provinces in Greece. | |
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Power Rangers in Space: Andros hails from KO-35. | |
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Outpost 2: One of the factions named their colony Eden. The other, breakaway faction decided on the equally symbolic but more down-to-earth "Plymouth". Both these names end up being quite appropriate in their own ways, as the single-player campaign ends with the player's faction being forced off the planet in a spaceship. Especially "Eden", given that it was their faction who got everyone into this mess when their terraforming technology went Grey Goo and ultimately destroyed the planet. | |
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Thousand Cultures: All planets are named for Nobel Peace Prize laureates, e.g. (Woodrow) Wilson, (Theodore) Roosevelt, and (Jane) Addams. | |
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Terminal Velocity (1995): Ymir. | |
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The Eschaton Series: Rochard's World. | |
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"The Encyclopedists": Anacreon, one of the planets/systems that become known as the Four Kingdoms, shares its name with a Greek poet. | |
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Space: 1999: Vega. | |
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Variable Star has Brasil Novo (New Brazil). The native-born Brazilians on the colony ship aren't very happy when other people start calling it "Bravo." | |
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Blind Lake has HR8832/B and UMa47/E. | |
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Civilization: Each civilization has a list of city names, but this list is always far shorter than the maximum number of cities you can possibly have on larger maps, so if you expand a lot, and reach the end of the list, the list would restart except it would put the word "New" in front of it. With 2 exceptions/Easter eggs: Instead of New Tokyo, the name Neo Tokyo is used, and in instead of New Istanbul, the name Not Constantinople is used. And just in case the "New" list is filled again, the list starts over appending a "-2" ("New York-2") to the city's name, then it starts over with "-3" ("Tokyo-3"), and so on. | |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_56fa0ea4 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Prelude to Foundation: Helicon, homeworld of Hari Seldon, shares its name with a mountain from Greece (and Greek Mythology). In myth, the mountain is host to the Muses. This can also be seen as symbolic, as Seldon is the "poet" inspired to create psychohistory and the Seldon Plan. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Aquarion Evol: Vega and Altair. | |
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1.0 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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The Expanse: The Ganymedan refugees who establish humanity's first exosolar colony name their planet "Ilus", in contrast to the later colonists from Earth who refer to it as "New Terra". | |
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Tech Infantry has Hadley, named for the town of Hadley's Hope in Aliens. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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The Vorkosigan Saga has Barrayar, named after the ruling Vorbarra family, and Sergyar, named after Prince Serg. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Non-Stop: Procyon. | |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_60cba9c2 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Robots and Empire: The first Settler planet is named BaleyWorld, after its founding colonist Bentley Baley, son of Elijah Baley, protagonist of the earlier Robot trilogy. It is located in the Epsilon Eridani system. (By the time of Foundation and Earth, it has been renamed Comporellon.) | |
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A Wrinkle in Time has Uriel, unaffected by the Black Thing and named for an angel; Camazotz, a Crapsaccharine World named after a scary Mayan bat-god; and its neighboring planet Ixchel, which only seems scary and is named after a nicer Mayan goddess. | |
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Freelancer: Systems names like Pittsburgh, Houston, Leeds, etc. Most of the capitals follow the New Something rule, being named New Tokyo, New London, New Berlin, and Manhattan. Although Manhattan is in the New York system. Presumably, the capitals were the ones settled first (the hulks of the Sleeper Starships make up memorable skyscrapers on those worlds). After that, it would make sense that colonists far away from Earth wouldn't much care about adding "new" to all names. | |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_61de95d6 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_62570927 | comment |
The Marvel Universe has Aerie and Mobius. | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_62570927 | featureApplicability |
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| Marvel Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Naming Your Colony World / int_62570927 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Serious Sam has planet Sirius. | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_62624eee | featureApplicability |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_62624eee | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Many colonies in The Lost Fleet are named after places on Earth: Glenlyon (a glen in Scotland), Kosatka (a village in Poland), Eire (the Irish name for Ireland), Adowa (a town in Ethiopia), Catalan (an ethnic group on the Iberian Peninsula), and Turan (a historic region in Central Asia). | |
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Hayven Celestia: The Krakun Empire named the krakun homeworld Krakuntec and each of their terraformed colonies are also Krakuntec followed by a Roman numeral to indicate the order in which it was colonized. For instance, the geroo homeworld would have become Krakuntec IX if the Hostile Terraforming hadn't failed entirely and left it a lifeless hellscape. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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In Tower and the Hive, the planet Deneb circles the star Deneb. | |
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CoDominium has Sauron. Unsurprisingly, this ended very, very badly. One of the Sauron Soldiers actually reads the The Lord of the Rings and idly wonders how things would have turned out if the place had been named "Gandalf" instead. | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_674f5fd3 | featureApplicability |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_674f5fd3 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Pandora: First Contact: Yet another example of someone naming a planet Pandora (cartographic designation - Nashira 667 Cc). | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_694aa414 | featureApplicability |
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| Pandora: First Contact (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Foundation's Edge: Sayshell, capital of the Sayshell Union, takes its name from the Seychelles islands on Earth in the Indian Ocean. References to ornamental script, bright clothing, spicy vegetarian foods, and meditation suggest the planet was deliberately named for their ancestral home. However, it should also be mentioned that the territory of the Sayshell Union (a nation) extends beyond the star system of Sayshell, and shares its name with the capital city and capital planet. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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"The Traders": Glyptal IV is briefly mentioned as a planet within the Foundation's sphere of trading/mail, where Les Gorm was given the job of delivering a message to Ponyets. The Greek word glyptos means carving or engraving, as in writing. | |
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Escape Velocity: Names of planets and their systems in Classic are often references to famous novels and films, particularly those featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Examples include Dune (Arrakis system), Akio (Guiron system), Beeblebrox (Zaphod system), Dark Star (Nemesis system), Hikeeba (Gymkata system), Samson's Planet (El Santo system). Whether Sauron is a reference to The Lord of the Rings or the CoDominium novels is unclear. Nova has a pair of Wraith systems dubbed One'E'Ringa and Too'E'Bindem. |
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Naming Your Colony World / int_6e0e351 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Stargate SG-1: In "Tin Man", Harlan refers to his homeworld as "Altair". | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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In Arrivals from the Dark, two of the first human extrasolar colonies are named Baal and Astarte. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Pebble in the Sky: The planet Ophiuchus takes its name from the constellation of Ophiuchus, rather than just one star. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Borderlands: The Eden system, notably Eden-6 and Eden-5. Also a case of Symbolica/Mnemosyne, depending on how you look at it. | |
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| Borderlands (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Halo: Biko (Carter's homeworld), Herschel, etc. The planet Madrigal, introduced in Halo: The Cole Protocol, may be named after a person, Madrigal being a Spanish surname and the inhabitants of the planet being culturally Spanish. |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Mass Effect: The Bring Down the Sky expansion features the planet Terra Nova (Latin: "New Land" or "New Earth"). | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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The Stars, Like Dust: Tyrann is a planet named to evoke the terms tyrant and tyranny, with a Greek root that is equivalent to Emperor. The Tyranni are conquering the planets within and nearby the Horsehead Nebula. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Sword of the Stars: Many of the planet names are references to other media or mythology. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Mass Effect: Quite a few throughout the series: Planets in the Skepsis system are named after biologists: Wallace, Darwin, Watson, Crick, Pauling, and Keimowitz. Planets in the Boltzmann system are named after theoretical physicists (most of whom are still alive): Bekenstein, Feynman, Thooft, Veltman, and Wheeler. The Hawking Eta cluster features the Schwarzschild, Chandrasekhar, and Thorne systems. (More physicists.) The Kepler Verge cluster has the Newton and Herschel systems. The Armstrong Nebula cluster features the Gagarin and Tereshkova (the first woman in space) systems. Humanity's first and largest deep space station is also named Gagarin Station. |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri: Thatcher. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Space Opera had Sirius Planet. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Space Opera | hasFeature |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
| Naming Your Colony World / int_7b039953 | comment |
Avatar: Polyphemus and its moon Pandora. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Avatar | hasFeature |
Naming Your Colony World / int_7b039953 | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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FreeSpace has Enif Station. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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In Traveller the five sisters subsector got it's name because the first Bold Explorer named them after his five daughters. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Milo hits a twofer in Omicron2 Eridani (AKA 40 Eridani), discovering habitable twin planets (i.e. planets that orbit a common center of gravity rather than a larger body), which he names Vulcan and Romulus. The colonists decide to keep the names. In fact, all but one of the Bobs' naming choices are accepted without complaint. Only the Japanese settlers of a planet named after a place in Norse Mythology decide to change it to something Shinto-related. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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The planet Madrigal, introduced in Halo: The Cole Protocol, may be named after a person, Madrigal being a Spanish surname and the inhabitants of the planet being culturally Spanish. | |
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| Halo: The Cole Protocol | hasFeature |
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Star Trek: Alpha Centauri, Regulus, Aldebaran Colony, Vega Colony. | |
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Galactic Civilizations: With the exception of the home systems for the game's alien civilizations, many of the star systems are named for other sci-fi or fantasy series. Examples include Hoth, Abydos, Sauron, Falayalaralfali, Atreides, and Kaled. | |
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Transformers: Prime, Megatron constructs another "New Kaon" on Earth at the end of season two. For some reason, it gets renamed Darkmount as soon as season three kicks off. | |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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"Green Patches": The planet (Saybrook's Planet) is named after Captain Saybrook, not just because he discovered it, but because he was willing to sacrifice his ship and everyone aboard to prevent the Assimilation Plot of the planet from reaching Earth. | |
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Hyperion Cantos: It's explained that the three continents of Hyperion are more properly called Creighton, Allensen, and Lopez, after three mid-level bureaucrats in the Survey Service. Everybody just calls them Equus, Ursa, and Aquila after the animals they're shaped like instead. (A theme which is carried on in several locations on the planet, like the Bridle Range, Horse's Eye, Cat Key, Felix, etc.) There also the Da Vinci Spaceport and Keats, the capital of Hyperion. |
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Naming Your Colony World | |
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Known Space has Planet Godzilla (in the same system as Home). Nobody seems to know what the hell the namer was thinking, or what he was referencing. | |
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Animorphs has an twist on this trope. Every planet not in Earth's solar system is named for the indigenous sapient species; for instance, the planet the Andalites evolved on is called the Andalite homeworld, the Taxxons' planet is the Taxxon homeworld, etc. Whether this is what the natives themselves call it or simply the named used for convenience's sake is not entirely clear, however. | |
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BattleTech has Epsilon Eridani. | |
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Xenosaga has the planet Ariadne, named after the mythical princess of Crete. There is also Michtam, presumably named for the psalms. Finally, there is the asteroid Pleroma. | |
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"The Mule": Mnemon, a Trader world, takes its name from a nickname given to Artaxerxes II of Persia by the Greeks. English translations vary between 'pertaining to Truth' and 'pertaining to Memory'. | |
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The Forever War: Forever Free has the planet Middle Finger. Whoever named that one had an weird sense of humour. | |
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Hellspark: The titular planet is purposely spelled as one word, specifically to cause ambiguity on how it's to be pronounced: either "Hell Spark" or "Hell's Park". It was originally settled by linguists, according to the planet's popular history. | |
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Names of planets and their systems in Classic are often references to famous novels and films, particularly those featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Examples include Dune (Arrakis system), Akio (Guiron system), Beeblebrox (Zaphod system), Dark Star (Nemesis system), Hikeeba (Gymkata system), Samson's Planet (El Santo system). Whether Sauron is a reference to The Lord of the Rings or the CoDominium novels is unclear. | |
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In The History of the Galaxy, the first Lost Colony attacked by the Earth Alliance is named Dabog. | |
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One astronomer named the asteroid he discovered Mr. Spock. To this day, he still claims that it's just named after his cat. People are no longer allowed to name asteroids after their pets because of this. Oddly, they are still allowed to name them after pop culture references. | |
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UFO Robo Grendizer: Vega. | |
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Interstellar: The extrasolar planets are given flatly descriptive, preliminary names, each based on the surname of the explorer sent to study it: Miller's Planet, Mann's Planet, Edmunds' Planet... | |
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Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has New Hong Kong, whose only law is that there is no law. | |
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Outsider: The human colony worlds within the Alpha Centauri system are named Alpha (also referencing its status as the first extrasolar colony) and Proxima. Somewhat confusingly, Proxima does not orbit Proxima Centauri, but Alpha Centauri B. | |
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''The Foundation Trilogy": Since "Foundation (1942)", Terminus has been the capital planet of the (First) Foundation. It is given this name because it is the furthest habitable planet from the galactic core, the 'terminus' of the galaxy. It also shares its name with the Roman god of boundary stones and property disputes. | |
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The Starfinder adventure path "Horizons in the Vast" takes place on a planet newly colonized by a collaboration between the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium, named "New Harmony." It's up to the players as administrators of one of the settlements as to whether it lives up to its name. | |
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Orion's Arm: Darwin, Turing, Bill and Bull, Robinson, Daffy, Kiyoshi. | |
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Artemis Neo has the planet Artemis, named after the Greek Goddess. | |
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A Game of Universe: The protagonist grew up on the mining colony Hades. It's well named. | |
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"Search by the Mule": Rossem, one of the planets under the control of Tazenda, is an exceptionally cold world, and populated only in the equatorial regions. The name itself is similar to both Russia (or "Rossiya") and to Rossum (or Rossum's Universal Robots). Dr. Asimov was an emigrant from Russia and wrote about robots. | |
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When Worlds Collide: Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. | |
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Murphy — borrowed from Earthman Come Home by James Blish. In-universe, named after the captain of the colony ship Simon Murphy. | |
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Alliance/Union: One of the most important planets in the setting is Pell's World, orbiting Pell's Star. There's also Russell's, Bryant's and Wyatt's. In an odd example that doesn't really fit in any category, some stations were named after famous space probes: Viking, Mariner, Voyager, etc. |
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The Nautilus Pirates, naturally, use nautical names for both land and sea bases (being a sea-based faction, they have more sea base names than others). Examples: Deadman Tavern, Landlubber Inn, Safe Haven, Cutlass Cay, Port Svensgaard. | |
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"Mother Earth": Hesperos, a planet reused in Robots and Empire, is named for the Greek god associated with the evening star. When it appears in Robots and Empire, a daughter from Aurora awaited news of her father's death. | |
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Ender's Game has Shakespeare. | |
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Aeon 14: A justified Symbolica variant. Intrepid planned to settle the planet New Eden, orbiting 82 Eridani. When Eden is denied them by a Lightspeed Leapfrog courtesy of the Time Dilation through Kapteyn's Streamer, they name the star system they buy from the Transcend New Canaan, after the Biblical promised land. The rest of the system is similar: the main settlement is located on Carthagenote Founded by inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Tyre. Angela also points out that main Carthaginian god was Tanit, of which Tanis is a variant., and the other planets are renamed Tyre, Troy, and Athens. | |
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Starling has Empyrean, a name meaning "belonging to or deriving from heaven", populated by a race of bird-like people. | |
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Hainish has New South Georgia and New Tahiti (AKA Athshe, its native name, and World 41), named after the archipelago that forms the bulk of its above-water landmass. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Planet Damogran has islands named Easter Island and France. This is lampshaded by Douglas Adams by mentioning that in Galacticspeke, "easter" means flat, small, and light-brown, which Easter Island is; the name France, whose meaning is not explained, is also an entirely meaningless coincidence. This is because one of the side effects of working on the Improbability-powered starship Heart Of Gold, which was built on France-the-island, is a whole string of entirely meaningless coincidences. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness reveals the existence of New Vulcan, formed after the destruction of Vulcan in the previous film. | |
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Captain Gwent from Colony, being a bratty teenager, gives planets immature names such as "Thrrrrp", "Penis", "Panties", and "Jockstrap", much to the dismay of his crew. When Father Lewis escapes the ship using the one viable transport module, he decides to name Thrrrrp "Lewis" instead. | |
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Coyote: In an unusual example, the 47 Ursae Majoris system includes the planets Fox, Raven, Wolf, and Bear, and Bear's moons Dog, Hawk, Eagle, Coyote, Snake, and Goat. | |
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Pitch Black: Characters refer to a planet called New Mecca, which is a major location in the sequel The Chronicles of Riddick. | |
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In Legion of Super-Heroes, the planet full of people who can eat anything is named after stomach medicine — it's called Bismoll. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: No one has any idea in what universe it was a good idea to name a planet Armageddon. No matter the Imperium has been fighting so many wars against the orks on this planet that Armageddon has come to mean "paradise" in Ork. One planet home to vicious giant spiders received its name from the punctuated transmission of one of the Space Marines deployed to its surface: One industrial world was originally know as Mordax by its human owners, but the orks took over and gave it a name better suited to its specific industry: Moredakka. Abandoned Hope: Whatever's on it, the Inquisition has blocked off all access. Archipelaga, a world mostly covered by water. Cinderus IX, whose minerals are used in producing the Titan-killing Volcano Cannon. The planet Eldritch, which used to belong to the C'tan-serving Necrons, now a dead world after being subject to Exterminatus. Firestorm, a Death World home to a Space Marine Chapter. Fortress, a... fortress world. And on a less dire note, an extremely bored space explorer named at least one star system 'Sodallagain'. |
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Transformers: Animated: New Kaon, named for a former Decepticon city on Cybertron. | |
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StarCraft: "New Gettysburg", the big turning-point battle and the beginning of the end of the Confederacy of Man. One wonders why a faction calling itself the Confederacy that uses the Stars and Bars as its flag in a Terran society peppered with Deep South stereotypes would name (or not rename) a location named after the real-life counterpart's high-water mark. | |
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Space: Above and Beyond: Vesta, Tellus, Ixion. | |
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Stargate Universe: The Icarus Base, which of course gets blown up in the pilot. One imagines General Jack O'Neill, the Deadpan Snarker former lead of SG-1, carving somebody a new one for jinxing the project. | |
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The Data Angels, cyberpunky hackers, have bases called Googleplex and Tears In Rain. | |
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The Demon Princes has Krokinole, Quinine (a fever medicine) and Valisande. | |
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Doctor Who has S14 and UX-4732 | |
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Encounter With Tiber: The titular planet, Tiber. | |
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Colony is set on Minerva, the first human interstellar colony. | |
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Blake's 7: Cygnus Alpha. | |
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In Mostly Harmless, the recently discovered tenth planet "was named Persephone, but rapidly nicknamed Rupert after some astronomer's parrot." | |
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EVE Online: Systems in 0.0 space have numeric names like B-VIP9. Some of the constellations and regions also have numeric names. | |
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Rocheworld: The titular "world" is a pair of planets called Roche ("Rock", in French) and Eau ("Water"). One of the sequels involves the planet Gargantua. | |
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Empire Star: Rhys. | |
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Alien Legacy: The remarkable similarity of the Beta Caeli system structure to the Solar System is reflected in the planets' names, except the colonists go with Greek names rather than Roman ones. The names are Hermes (Mercury), Rhea (if Venus was habitable, but named after the mother of the gods), Prometheus (Rhea's moon), Gaea (Earth), Ares (Mars), Zeus (Jupiter), Hera (Io), Hebe (Ganymede), Cronus (Saturn), Poseidon (Uranus/Neptune), Thetis (Triton), and Hades (Pluto). | |
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Foundation and Earth: Alpha, which the protagonists identify as meaning "First", is a planet around Alpha Centauri covered entirely by ocean, with the exception of a single island, having been terraformed to evacuate the last humans on Earth. | |
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Andromeda has Tartarus and Hephaestus | |
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The Pentagon War has asteroids named New France and New Mars. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): New Caprica, which itself has a city called New Caprica City after Caprica City, the capital of the old Caprica. The colonials were not especially gifted when it came to naming things. In the series finale, the remaining survivors manage to find a habitable planet to settle on: the planet Earth. |
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Elite: Taylor Colony and Tracy's Haven. | |
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In Uplift, two of humans' first extrasolar colonies are named NuDawn and Atlast. (After making contact with Galactic Civilization and acquiring later planets legally, humans tend to use the names aliens had already given them.) | |
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Utopia: Older Than Steam: The original Utopia was named because it literally means both "nowhere" (outopia) and a "good place" (eutopia) in Greek. | |
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Barsoom — the native name for Mars in John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's a low-gravity world whose colonists have evolved into lanky humanoids. | |
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Singularity: Mancken's World. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has New Betel. | |
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The Starcraft II Wings Of Liberty campaign includes a mission on the prison planet New Folsom, presumably a nod towards the real maximum-security Folsom State Prison in California. | |
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"The General (Foundation)": Loris is a region in the Four Kingdoms, under seige by General Riose. The region is named after Locris, a region of Greece (the province was established in prehistoric times and still existed until 2006), and appears again as Captain Pritcher's homeworld in "The Mule". | |
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The Noon Universe has Ark, Hope, Pandora and Rainbow. | |
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Star Carrier: Deep Space has a planet called Vulcan. This would normally fall into the series' Symbolica pattern, except for the fact that the planet orbits 40 Eridani A, Vulcan's quasi-canonical* While never directly confirmed in canon, it's Word of God from Gene Roddenberry and supported by distances from Earth given in two Star Trek: Enterprise episodes. location in Star Trek. This is explicitly true In-Universe, although the name Star Trek isn't mentioned. | |
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Foundation: The main continuity includes Terminus at the edge of the galaxy itself, as well as Haven and Gaia/Galaxia. Roger McBride Allen's Caliban trilogy, set in the same universe, ignores the stricture above about calling your planet "Hell". It's set on Inferno. |
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In Stellaris this is the UNE's default naming convention for colonies. For instance you can end up with Tuscany orbiting Alpha Centauri. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: Pegasus Galaxy planets start with M instead of P. | |
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Rogue Trooper: Nu Earth. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In Alien Exodus, an early and non-canon novel, the planet Corellia is named after Antonia Corelli, the pilot of the 25th Century Earth spacecraft, displaced by a wormhole en route to Alpha Centauri, whose passengers and crew were the first Humans in the Galaxy | |
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Rifts one of the parallel universes has a planet named Wormwood. | |
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Ciaphas Cain briefly mentions a planet called Sodallagainnote "Sod-all again", which according to Amberley Vail was charted by an apparently very bored explorator several millennia ago. Also the planet The Last Ditch takes place on, Nusquam Fundimentibusnote Canis Latinicus for "arse end of nowhere". | |
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Firefly has Heinlein, Ariel and Miranda. We should note that the latter two are also names of moons of Uranus; see below. | |
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Spaceballs visits "the Moon Of Vega", although this being Spaceballs it's not supposed to make sense. | |
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Dying Earth: One story references Sadal Suud (from Sadalsuud, now more commonly known as Beta Aquarii). | |
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Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise has tons of Planet Shout Outs, usually lampshaded by the authors (there is an appendix at the end of the book with all the references). Sometimes the source is referenced by the first-person titular protagonist. Murphy — borrowed from Earthman Come Home by James Blish. In-universe, named after the captain of the colony ship Simon Murphy. Pern — obviously taken from Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey, who is mentioned by name by another character, except over 20,000 years her name has been mangled into Annette McClosky. It's implied that the planet was named so because of certain flying reptiles native to it. Barsoom — the native name for Mars in John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's a low-gravity world whose colonists have evolved into lanky humanoids. Eden and Solaris — taken from the eponymous novels by Stanisław Lem. And yes, the second one is a water world with colonists living on islands making up about 3% of the surface. Trantor and Aurora — planets in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Tranai — a "utopia" invented by Robert Sheckley in A Ticket to Tranai. Viola Siderea — taken from "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons" by Cordwainer Smith. Camelot and Logres — places in the King Arthur myths. Malacandra — planet in Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis. |
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Fireball XL5 has a New Earth. | |
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Viagens Interplanetarias uses this, Theme Naming different systems with different mythologies: Tau Ceti has Krishna, Vishnu, and Ganesha (Hindu Mythology), Procyon has Osiris, Isis, and Thoth (Egyptian Mythology), Epsilon Eridani has Kulkulkan (Mayan Mythology). | |
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No Man's Sky has, as one of its procedurally-generated planets, LV-426. Unlike the film, however, the planet is lush and green. | |
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Blue Planet has Lambda Serpentis II, named Poseidon. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. Captain Janeway and her Number Two Chakotay are stranded on an alien planet which they call New Earth. They're rescued before an Adam and Eve Plot can commence, so presumably the planet was renamed by whoever found it next. | |
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Alien vs. Predator 2 is set on LV-1201 | |
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Void Dogs has Nova Hibernia, Nova Caledonia, and Nova Terra (which strangely enough is in the Sol system). | |
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The Robots of Dawn: Aurora, in the Tau Ceti system, was originally named New Earth, but as the Spacers and Earthers diverged, the colonists decided to rename themselves after the Roman goddess of dawn. Their largest city is named Eos, after the Greek goddess of dawn. | |
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Metroid: Samus grew up on K-2L and SR388 is the Metroid home planet. | |
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Citizen of the Galaxy has Proxima. | |
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Lilith's Brood: While not the name of one planet, but of towns in recolonized Earth, it's remarked that quite a large number of new settlements are named "Phoenix" because everyone thought it would be symbolic and original. | |
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Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon takes place on Rubicon 3, named after the river in Italy that Caesar crossed when marching on Rome. It's a war-torn hellhole. The "Alea Iacta Est" ending further references the event. | |
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Titan A.E.: There's both a "New Bangkok" and "Earth" (which people insist on calling "New Earth", despite the fact that the original has been destroyed, so there's not much chance of confusion). | |
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In Babylon 5 this used to be near-standard practice for the Centauri during their golden age, following a precise scheme: while secondary capitals for use in case their homeworld has to be evacuated have proper names, worlds projected to be major colonies are named Centauri Alpha followed by a number (with "Centauri" usually omitted outside official documents), secondary colonies are named Centauri Beta followed by a number ("Centauri" being again omitted), and lesser systems being named "Quadrant" followed by a number. Interestingly, they applied this scheme to their home system: their homeworld is technically named Durana but is usually referred to as Centauri Prime out of sheer pride, while the inhabited moon is Beta One. | |
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Starflight: Procya orbits Procyon, as if you couldn't guess. | |
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A World of Difference has the planet Minerva, placed where Mars would be. | |
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Pern — obviously taken from Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey, who is mentioned by name by another character, except over 20,000 years her name has been mangled into Annette McClosky. It's implied that the planet was named so because of certain flying reptiles native to it. | |
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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident has the Noah colony, founded by the people aboard the Noah's Ark colony ship. | |
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Transformers: Gaea, Jörmungandr, Hyperion. | |
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Fighting Fantasy: Titan. | |
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