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In speculative fiction, inhabited planets will often lack a proper name, instead being designated by the name of the star they orbit and a number. It is almost never the case that the star is referred to by a catalogue number. Natural satellites will also often lack proper names and be identified as "the moon of planet X" or somesuch. In Real Life, notable celestial objects, like the other planets of the solar system, their moons and certain stars easily visible from Earth have had proper names for about as long they have been known to exist (although admittedly some are much better known than others). A large number of lesser objects, such as asteroids and extrasolar planets are assigned catalogue numbers. When extrasolar planets were first discovered in 1995, the astronomical community used lowercase letters instead of numbers (e.g. 51 Pegasi b, 70 Virginis b). While it is reasonable that an interstellar civilisation surveying a star system would initially assign numbers to the planets along the lines of "XLL325-1" for the first planet of the star XLL325, it would be strange if they failed to come up with proper names for the star and planets (eg. "Baltimore" instead of "XLL325") if they decide to colonise the star system. Even sillier is when a planet inhabited by an alien species is given such a label and said inhabitants begin to use that designation themselves. It's sillier still if the species has always called their own planet by a catalogue number. After all, how many humans in reality or fiction ever refer to our little world as Sol III? This trope is arguably justified when the catalogue number is used by The Empire to name planets occupied by another species. Starfish Aliens may call their planet Krzjdlwsk, but stormtroopers trying to pronounce the name may be tempted to just use the catalogue number or come up with a nickname for the planet, like "Krazy Dullwhisk." May sometimes be a case of Translation Convention. The trope can also be justified as a naming convention by a bureaucratic or military authority that wishes to come up with a neutral name that does not offend political sensibilities. This sort of thing is common on Earth, as anyone who's visited (London)derry in Northern Ireland or the Persian (Arabian) Gulf can attest. If two competing groups settle a planet, and one calls it Cleveland while the other calls it Cayuga, it might just be best for a visiting starship captain to call it "Rigel VI". See also: Airstrip One, Naming Your Colony World, and A Planet Named Zok. |
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The Worlds of Aldebaran is set on Aldebaran IV (also known simply as Aldebaran). | |
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Kevin J. Anderson's The Saga of Seven Suns: Paris 3, Qrohna 3, Constantine III, Jonah 12. | |
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The Star Ocean series uses both this and proper names for planets. For example Earth is also known as Sol III while Expel is also known as Arcura IV. | |
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Starbound plans on this with the star name, then the number with Roman numerals and then moons around said planets are given alphabetical designations in order of closest to farthest. One example could be Alpha Nu Aql Majoris III b. The player's homeworld, however, can be named. | |
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In Subnautica, your character is shipwrecked on Planet 4546B. This unexplored world is far outside The Federation's territory, meaning rescue is unlikely. | |
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Master of Orion: The second and third games have numbered planets. You can name the star though, so you can settle on Trope IV. | |
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The Space Gypsy Adventures has the Galvert system with at least seven inhabited planets differentiated simply by number. Detective Constable Bones is from Galvert VI (whose inhabitants, Bones included, all speak with suspiciously Welsh sounding accents), but the characters visit several other worlds in the system. Other planets such as Zenophon aren't numbered. | |
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In the Punyverse from Sluggy Freelance this seems to be standard practice, with planets named things like Grittania-3 or Chau-5. | |
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The alien invaders of Space Warrior Baldios come from a planet named S-1, which is explained to be shorthand for "First planet orbiting Soll" fairly late in the series. A massive phlebotinum-related accident later destroys Mercury and Venus, leaving Earth the closest planet to Sol, among other similarities between the two planets | |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Aldebaran II, Altair V, Iris VII. | |
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Enemy Mine had Fyrine IV. | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space | |
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In The Ship Who Sang, Beta Corvi IV is home to a highly advanced race of non-humanoid aliens in the chapter "Dramatic Mission". | |
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The Choose Your Own Adventure book The Third Planet From Altair: It's right there in the title. | |
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Gordon R. Dickinson's Childe Cycle has Fomalhaut III, better known as Dorsai. | |
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Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons Halloween Episodes come from the faraway planet of Rigel VII (also called Rigel IV in some earlier episodes). | |
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Probably deliberately done in The Orville, where a newly-discovered pre-space flight race calls their planet Regor 2. Another example is Kaylon 1, home to the robotic Kaylon race, but that may be a deliberate choice on the machines' part. | |
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Justice League mentions Rigel IX. | |
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In Lyrical Nanoha Earth is also "Unadministrated Planet #97" to the Time-Space Administration Bureau. The Bureau categorizes the known worlds into administrated, non-administrated, and uninhabited, and numbers them (possibly) by the time of discovery. Mid-Childa, its homeworld, is "administrated world #1", for instance. | |
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Usually averted in Humanx Commonwealth, the only exception being Tharce IV. | |
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The Little Prince: Asteroid B612, home to the titular character. | |
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Nightfall (1990): During this story, astrologers discover a distant moon around Kalgash, and name it "Kalgash 2". | |
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Space Empires: Every planet, including your homeworld, is numbered. | |
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Power Rangers in Space: Andros's homeworld is "KO-35" and referred to as a colony. It's in the "Kerovan system." That... doesn't actually give a proper name to Andros' people or their world. Fans speculate that the planet it's a colony of (which is, by the way, only suggested to exist by Fridge Logic - for KO-35 to be "the space colony" there must be an original civilization... and that's all we got.) must have a proper name. They seem to just consider themselves humans. When the Rangers first meet Andros (and discover that he's not a alien) he mentions that "Earth isn't the only place where humans live." This is never explained, however people from KO-35 are indistinguishable from people on Earth and the only known difference is that they have mild telekinesis (which Andros claims is a learned ability, not a genetic one). | |
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Outpost 2: By default your new home is named this way, resulting in planet names like "Sigma Draconis I" or "Delta Pavonis II." You can, however, rename the planet to your liking, and Outpost 2 simply calls the planet "New Terra." | |
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Marathon is set around Tau Ceti IV. | |
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The Bortronian planets in Ready Jet Go! work like this. The Propulsions are from Bortron 7. | |
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And when finding out what life would be like if it were a video game, it turns out the Space Invaders were from the planet Nintendu LXIV. | |
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"The Encyclopedists": Planet V of Gamma Andromeda is only mentioned because of its recent nuclear power plant disaster. | |
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Captain Marvel (2019) identifies Earth as "C-53" with the subtitle "Terran Homeworld", which serves to indicate that it is not considered particularly significant by the Kree. | |
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System Shock 2 is set around Tau Ceti V. | |
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Freelancer gives the sparsely populated Border Worlds names like "Sigma-14" and "Tau-23," while those under house authority are named after places on Earth, such as "New London" or "Frankfurt." | |
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The Marvel Universe has Centauri IV, Sirius III-IV, Rigel III, Capella II (whose natives call it Lotiara), Arcturus IV, A-Chiltar III, Ciegrim-7, Horus IV, Maklu IV, Stonus I-V, Tarnax IV, Wundagore II and Power Planet 4. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged any planets conquered by Freeza are named "Freeza Planet X". Lampshaded by Bardock in his movie | |
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In Ascendancy, the player can name their colonies whatever they want, but the defaults are (Starname) (Roman numeral) (such as Hope II, Nougat IV, etc.) | |
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EVE Online: Every planet and moon is numbered. Only planets in the homeworld systems of Amarr, New Caldari, Luminaire, and Pator, get proper names. Furthermore, the systems not controlled by the NPC empires all have numeric designations like B-VIP9. There have been proposals to name some of these systems after characters whose players died in real life. Additionally, systems in wormhole space have numerical system, constellation and region designations, with the exception of one planet named after a well-known Icelandic volcano. |
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Endless Space 2 gives each empire's starting planet a unique name, averting this trope. It goes further by giving players the option to rename any planet they colonize, meaning you could have an entire empire of unique planets if you so choose. | |
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Screamers is set on Sirius 6B. | |
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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. It overlaps with Symbolically Named Planets because the Greek word glyptos means carving or engraving, as in writing. | |
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Elite Dangerous, all but a handful of the billions of stars are numbered (either randomly generated, or pulled from a astronomical catalog), giving us beautiful names like "Eol Prou RS-T D3-94". Planets share the name of the star they orbit, and are assigned an alphanumeric code based on their orbit. Only a handful of planets or stars have an actual name; some are from previous games or are actually named in real life (such as "Sirius"), and a handful were named by kickstarter backers such as the infamous "Stapled Peacock Flesh", a terraformed Earth-like world. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Voices of a Distant Star has Sirius IV. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Most or all planets in Stargate SG-1 were numbered, although many had proper names as well. Earth has one as well: P2X-3YZ They were generally pretty good about this trope, though. When they encountered an inhabited planet, they usually switched from the catalogue number to whatever the natives call it. Of course, the characters did manage to remember offhand the catalogue numbers for many of their mission destinations even years later. Carter mentions in one episode that the designation is "based on a binary code the computer uses for extrapolation," so it's some kind of a mathematical formula produced by the Earth-based dialing computer to pinpoint location in space. It would seem that the first digit may indicate galaxy, since every Milky Way address seems to begin with "P," while every Pegasus address seems to begin with "M" (in spite of common sense suggesting it should be the other way around). The "P" in all probability comes from "planet"; "M" might've been chosen with the intent to have most of the Pegasus worlds be moons. The P = planet, M = moon is likely exemplified by M4C-862, which is in the Milky Way, but referred to many times as a moon. Lampshaded in a first-season episode of Atlantis, where after having to be reminded what planet a particular code corresponded to, Ford asked why they couldn't simply give descriptive names to the planets like "Planet Waterfall". Interestingly, that's a rarity. Planets are almost always referenced by their computer designations, and you never, ever hear "P3 what?!" "The one with all the trees." "Oh." or anything like that except for this one occasion. Even characters who are not supposed to be geniuses like Carter will always remember a planet by its designation, and the listener will have no trouble. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In the Dune series of novels, the homeworld of the Ixians is called Ix, a mysterious name with a meaning lost to time. One character with "ancestral memories" notes to himself with amusement that "Ix" is merely the name of a numeral from a culture that has long been forgotten by the general population of the present universe. Seemingly implicit is that the planet was originally designated with the number 9, written in Roman Numerals as IX. The planet's original designation was probably Epsilon Eridani IX, although it's not clear why Richese (located in the same system) got a proper name and Ix didn't. Several other plants have numbers, such as Salusa Secundus, Wallach IX and IV Anbus (pronounced as "four-anbus"). The video game adds Sigma Draconis IV. The name is totally in character for the House Ordos who live there. |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_7559ae0b | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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This trope exists in the Halo universe with planets like Chi Ceti 4, Eridanus II, Charybdis IX, Epsilon Eridani IV, Draco III, Paris IV, Circinius IV, and Sigma Octanus IV. There are also a few numbered planets that aren't named after the star they orbit, like Beta Gabriel and Jericho VII. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Mass Effect: Generally Averted. Most planets and solar systems that you visit in the game have already been explored by someone, and as such already have names associated with them. Even lifeless rocks in distant nebulae have names. Some come from human mythology and history, but most have been named by the various alien races that have already been established in the galaxy for millennia. The only exceptions are 2175 Aeia and 2175 AR2, never formally explored and thus never given a name beyond the scientific designation. The very first planet ever visited in the series has the designation Eden Prime, even though no other Eden planets are ever encountered. The name is most likely symbolic. In the Bible, Eden was the first terrestrial human settlement and was a paradise until the humans got kicked out. In Mass Effect, Eden Prime was one of the first extra-solar colonies humanity established and was considered by many to be a paradise until the Geth invaded in the first game. (This plays on the mathematical notion of "prime", e.g. f'(x) is the first derivative of f(x)). |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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LV-426, the setting for Aliens is named Acheron in the novelisation. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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FreeSpace has Altair V, Cygnus Prime, Deneb II, and Deneb III. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_7dad8347 | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Traveller uses arbitrary numbers for the least important systems. For example, here's a map centered on 876-574. (More important systems will more usually be known by the name of their most important habitation, be it artifact, planet, moon, or asteroid belt.) | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_7de8951a | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer mentions Rigel III as the previous planet eaten by Galactus. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_7f256cda | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Star Trek: Birth Of The Federation, nearly all planets follow the trope. Earth and the Solar System planets are the exception. Interestingly, the first planet in a system is always called <star name> + "Prime". The rest attach Roman numerals. Cardassia Prime is the exception, as it is normally the second planet in the system, and the first planet is named Cardassia II. Star Trek: Bridge Commander starts with the destruction of Vesuvi III. |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_81692f99 | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In one of the Soul Drinkers novels, an Adeptus Mechanicus world is referred to solely by a "serial number"-type name. Of course, given the nature of that particular branch of the Imperial hierarchy, that's about par for the course. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_8213eb6e | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick have Helion Prime and then up to Helion Five. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_83022f98 | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Galactic Civilizations II: The homeworlds of the various species and the other planets in the same system have proper names. Other systems with no native intelligent species however have planets with Star Name + Number. The player is free to rename them though when colonized. Minor races have their planets named after them. Some, like the Dark Yor, even have their own solar system (following the standard naming convention for the various planets). The campaign maps usually have a few planets with unique names. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Planet #666 from Jason X: Plane of the Beast. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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The Hyperion Cantos have variations with Deneb Drei and Deneb Vier, Sol Draconi Septem, and Vitus-Gray-Balianus B. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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The Planet X is homaged in the animated sci-fi spoof Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century and the Captain Proton holoprogram (based on Flash Gordon-type sci-fi) in Star Trek: Voyager. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_8a6bf3f3 | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In the Gundam series, especially but not exclusively in the Universal Century timeline, The Earth Federation names clusters of its artificial space colonies as "Sides", with the numerical designation of "Side x". For example, Amuro Ray's home cluster was designated as "Side 7". Each of the seven Sides has an actual name in addition to its Side number, though these are rarely used for some reason. The names are, in order, "Zarn", "Hatte", "Munzo" (or "Zeon" for most of UC), "Mua", "Loum", "Riah", and "Noa". Individual colonies tend to have both a numerical designation and an individual name (Side 1, Colony 1 is "Shangri-La"). |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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"The Merchant Princes": Orsha II is the new capital of the Normannic Sector, since the revolutions on Siwenna. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Space Quest, being a parody game series (the latter ones specifically parody Star Trek) play this trope to the fullest. The gameplay of the sixth game starts on planet Polysorbate LX. Of course, one has to wonder what sort of life is possible on the 60-th planet in a star system. Actually, not much of a life. The place is a dump. And yet Captain Kielbasa has chosen it for shore leave of the crew of the SCS DeepShip 86. There are also planets Commodore LXIV, Delta Burksilon V, Klorox II, etc. Other planets seem to have proper names, though (e.g. Xenon, Kerona, Pestulon, Estros, Kiz Urazgubi, Gingivitis). | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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From Lexx, a literal numbered homeworld: Brunnis-2 is where all the inhabitants of Brunnis settled after abandoning their original star system (and universe). Also spoofed with the unreachable Pleasure Planet "Nimbus IX." Stan is from Ostral-B which seems to be similar to this, and Zev/Xev was from "B3K". |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Superman storyline "Brainiac Rebirth", Brainiac attacks a planet called Systus 2. | |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_8df5521b | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Xenosaga all of the capitals of Galaxy Federation have been named _th Jerusalem, with Earth being named Lost Jerusalem, and the capital during the game's events Fifth Jerusalem. There's also the planet of Second Miltia, suggesting that other planets are numbered in this way. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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"The Mule": Toran hails from the second planet of the star system Haven, called Haven II. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Aeon Natum Engel Earth is classified as ǶǡѬѮӜ-[(zero-46,656) and (thirtyone-1296) and (eleven-36) and (thirtyfive)]-[(zero-60,466,176) and (one-1,679,616) and (twentynine-46,656) and (seven-1296) and (seventeen-36) and (three)]. Would be considered as a case of Exaggeration if not for beings who are using that numbering system, the Migou. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Mickey Mouse Frontier Chronicles Earth colonies are named "Earth" followed by a number in order of foundation. Mickey's homeworld, the latest colonized, is Earth 32. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan's main plot begins when someone mixes up the planets Ceti Alpha VI and Ceti Alpha V (one of them blew up and the other's orbit was shifted and became a desert wasteland as a result). Whoever forgot to COUNT THE FREAKING NUMBER OF PLANETS when they arrived in the system deserves to have some sort of parasitic worm shoved in their ear... In real life, however, Pluto is not always the farthest (dwarf) planet, so when it happens, it's easy to confuse it with Neptune if one doesn't know their masses etc., but only counts objects. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In The History of the Galaxy series, many secret Earth Alliance automated bases throughout the galaxy are called "Omicron"+<serial number>. This is likely to hide their locations from enemy spies. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series. Just a few of the many examples: The planets in the Rigel system: various episodes mention 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 and 12. Other commonly mentioned systems include Altair (III, IV, VI), Deneb (IV, V) and Tau Ceti (III, IV, Prime) The Sigma Draconis system ("Spock's Brain") has nine planets and mentions numbers 3, 4, 6 and 7. Aldebaran III in "The Deadly Years." Alpha Carinae II ("The Ultimate Computer") and V ("Wolf in the Fold"). Archer IV is an odd example, seeing as it's in the 61 Ursae Majoris system. Plenty more where that came from: Acamar III, Beta Aquilae II, Taurus II, Canopus III, Gamma Trianguli VI, Mintaka III, Omicron Ceti III, Dytallix B, Mizar II, Pollux IV, Procyon V, Sirius IX, Tau Cygni V, Vega IX...and those are just the ones orbiting real stars! |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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The DCU: Talok III, IV, and VIII, Beltair IV, Trigus VIII, Toomey VI. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Starfinder: The Veskarium names the vesk homeworld Vesk Prime and the other seven planets in their home system Vesk-2 through -8. However the natives have their own names for their home planets, for instance Vesk-3 is Oeddertchonk to the skittermanders and the pahtra of Vesk-6 insist it's called Pulonis. Some adventure modules set on Veskarium colonies outside their home system also use the [Star]-[Number] format, such as an Alternate Universe where the Veskarium conquered the Pact Worlds and renamed Akiton to Golarion-3. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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As quoted above, in Futurama the Omicronians call their home planet "Omicron Persei VIII." This is a "Numbered" Star as well as a numbered homeworld. Omicron Persei just means the 15th brightest star in the constellation Perseus as seen from Earth, and it's a real star. And when finding out what life would be like if it were a video game, it turns out the Space Invaders were from the planet Nintendu LXIV. In fact almost every planet in Futurama is named this way. Thuban IX, Amphibios IX, Decapod X, Chapek IX, Dogdoo VII, Tweenis XII. there are few exceptions. Further lampooned and played completely straight during the second second Brain Spawn episode. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Non-spatial example: Japan is renamed Area 11 in Code Geass. This is chiefly a political move by Britannia, as it removes the identity of the conquered country to make it harder to establish a cause to revolt by. Early in the series there's a reference to part of the former Middle East (Saudi Arabia) being referred to as Area 38. Presumably these numbers designate actual places under rule by the Brittanians. |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Thanos's new planet in Avengers: Endgame is labeled Planet 0269-S on a star chart and director, Joe Russo calls it Titan II in interviews. | |
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| Avengers: Endgame | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_a660fd96 | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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The Alliance/Union universe has Alpha Station, Beta Station, and Omicron Point. Gehenna is also officially known as Zeta Reticuli II. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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In Captain Star, planets are named after the captain who discovered them, with the eponymous Captain Star holding the record. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Forbidden Planet is set on Altair-4. | |
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Numbered Homeworld | |
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Metroid Dread takes place on a planet simply called "ZDR", another catalogue entry. The Chozo who actually lived there refer to it in dialogue as "Tari Nalima". | |
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1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_aeac03f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metroid Dread (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_aeac03f9 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_aedc983a | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_aedc983a | comment |
Used regularly in the Wing Commander series. Locanda II, Loki IVnote which is also given as the system name on the galaxy map that came with Prophecy, presumably an error by the graphics artist(s) involved, and Mylon II come up as plot points. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_aedc983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_aedc983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wing Commander (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_aedc983a | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_af552e7e | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_af552e7e | comment |
Tallon IV, although it's sort of confusing in Metroid Prime. There's a room that gives you a holographic display of the solar system. Tallon IV is actually the fifth planet in that system and the system itself is called the Ooromine System. There is an Ooromine II, but the other planets have distinctive names. This includes Zebes (the planet of the original Metroid and Super Metroid), Billium and Twin Tabula. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_af552e7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_af552e7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metroid Prime (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_af552e7e | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b11e29d2 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b11e29d2 | comment |
Outlaw Star uses this a lot, first with Sentinel III, and later with planets in the Heifong system. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b11e29d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b11e29d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outlaw Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b11e29d2 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b1bdcb18 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b1bdcb18 | comment |
The second Alien vs. Predator game takes place upon LV-1201. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b1bdcb18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b1bdcb18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alien vs. Predator (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b1bdcb18 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b565ccc5 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b565ccc5 | comment |
In the third episode of Loki (2021), Loki and Sylvie ends up stranded in a moon called "Lamentis-1". | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b565ccc5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b565ccc5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Loki (2021) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b565ccc5 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b683f90f | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b683f90f | comment |
The Perry Rhodan universe has the Arkonides calling their homeworlds Arkon I, II and III. This is quite intentional, since they were moved into an equilateral triangle with the star in its center (they were originally the 2nd to 4th planet). The other planets in the system have names. There are also more traditional examples, like Betelgeuse III and the planets of the Vega system (IX, X, XL) | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b683f90f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Perry Rhodan | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b683f90f | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b70b2283 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b70b2283 | comment |
The Invincible: Regis III. It's the human name — the natives probably called it something else, but came down with a bad case of extinct. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b70b2283 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b70b2283 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Invincible | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b70b2283 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b8c91c72 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b8c91c72 | comment |
In Zap!, "Stickles" (an alien race) come from Stickbat 7. The number isn't because it is the seventh planet from the star, but because they've accidentally destroyed six other homeworlds in crazy experiments. As one stickle said, "[the other planets] were too flammable." | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b8c91c72 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b8c91c72 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zap! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b8c91c72 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b952005 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b952005 | comment |
Endless Space uses it. Even your empire's homeworld is literally a numbered homeworld. Ironically, a later patch added ONE properly-named planet to the game... Auriga, which isn't a homeworld to any of the established factions, but IS the planet where Dungeon of the Endless and Endless Legend took place. Endless Space 2 gives each empire's starting planet a unique name, averting this trope. It goes further by giving players the option to rename any planet they colonize, meaning you could have an entire empire of unique planets if you so choose. |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_b952005 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b952005 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Endless Space (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b952005 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b9a0d78d | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b9a0d78d | comment |
The planet where both Alien and Aliens takes place on is called LV-426, though in the latter its also known as Acheron. The third movie has Fiorina 161. Prometheus is set on LV-223. |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_b9a0d78d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_b9a0d78d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alien | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_b9a0d78d | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000 uses names like Lorne V and Kaurava IV on top of more standard titles. But they also tend to name a star system after its most important planet, a subsector after its most important system... | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bcadd7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bcadd7cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_bcadd7cb | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bef4b763 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bef4b763 | comment |
Lost in Space: Alpha Prime. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bef4b763 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_bef4b763 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lost in Space | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_bef4b763 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8 | comment |
Space: Above and Beyond refers to Chig planets as things like 2063F and 2064R, while human colonies have proper names. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Space: Above and Beyond | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c3f87443 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c3f87443 | comment |
The Demon Princes mentions Caph IV, Mizar VI, and Xi Puppis X. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c3f87443 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c3f87443 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Demon Princes | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c3f87443 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
In Doctor Who Earth has occasionally (such as in "Last of the Time Lords") been identified as "Sol 3" from outside sources. The audio play The Ultimate Adventure involves the planet Altair III. |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c592c211 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c592c211 | comment |
Empire of the Petal Throne Tékumel was previously known as Nu Ophiuchi d or Sinistra d. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c592c211 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c592c211 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Empire of the Petal Throne (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c592c211 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6220b6e | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6220b6e | comment |
Lumbanico, the Cubic Planet: Parodied when Risperim tells the main characters a legend about a nameless tiny star who longed for its own name. When the star drifted near from an inhabited world and let a team of astronomers see it and name it, the star became massively disappointed and disheartened upon seeing its new "name": Astro 3 966/V. N.-tip.gt. The star would rather to have no name whatsoever rather than going by that "soulless" moniker. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6220b6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6220b6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lumbanico The Cubic Planet | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c6220b6e | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6f7e804 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6f7e804 | comment |
Blake's 7 had many of these, like Altern V, Beta V, Mecron II, Zeigler V, Zolat IV, Gauda Prime, Porthia Major, Magdalen Alpha, Del-10, K-14, PK-118, XK-72. At one point there's a story arc involving the search for the Federation Master Computer at Star One. On finding a solitary planet orbiting a distant star, they suddenly realise it's a Meaningful Name. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6f7e804 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c6f7e804 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blake's 7 | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c6f7e804 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c7fe36fb | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c7fe36fb | comment |
The video game adds Sigma Draconis IV. The name is totally in character for the House Ordos who live there. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c7fe36fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_c7fe36fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dune II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_c7fe36fb | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cbad9b62 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cbad9b62 | comment |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Rondolina, a planet which plays an important role in the backstory, was also known as Sirius VI. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cbad9b62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cbad9b62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_cbad9b62 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cc79f0e4 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cc79f0e4 | comment |
Us and Them: The Final Fantasy VII world is known as Planet 131 to the greater galactic community. When Ifalna protests her homeworld being referred to by a number she is told that it's necessary because most people tend to name their worlds things like, "Planet", "Gaia", "Earth", or "Terra". Even the Seraph homeworld's name means "Our Home". | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cc79f0e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cc79f0e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Us and Them / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_cc79f0e4 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd69fa57 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd69fa57 | comment |
Although called Darkover by the natives, the Terran Empire's name for the planet is Cottman IV. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd69fa57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd69fa57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Darkover | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_cd69fa57 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd95b8df | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd95b8df | comment |
Dead Space has Aegis VII. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd95b8df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_cd95b8df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dead Space (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_cd95b8df | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d20a9f64 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d20a9f64 | comment |
In The Pentagon War, the main planet of the Sirius system is named "America" by its inhabitants. Outsiders still refer to it as Sirius A IV, though. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d20a9f64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d20a9f64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Pentagon War | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_d20a9f64 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d5b84b32 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d5b84b32 | comment |
In Spore, catalogue numbers are reserved for anomalies like black holes; every star or binary system has a name. Planets, however, including homeworlds, are designated using the name of the star or binary system followed by a number, except for the player homeworlds, which are named when you first start a game on that world. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d5b84b32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d5b84b32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spore (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_d5b84b32 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d7765410 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d7765410 | comment |
Not uncommon in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, sometimes using Greek or Roman letters instead of numbers, for variety. (Stavromula Beta, however, turns out to be something else entirely.) Several planets did have actual names, however: Earth ("What a boring name..."), Magrathea, Golgafrincham, Persephone Rupert... Some of this may be explained by the setting’s Translator Microbes; Arthur hears the English name for the planet if it has one, especially the Betelgeuse system, since Ford explained he was from Betelgeuse Seven before Arthur had a fish in his ear. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d7765410 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_d7765410 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_d7765410 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_da242be4 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_da242be4 | comment |
Bodacious Space Pirates has Tau Ceti III (or Uminoakehoshi) | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_da242be4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_da242be4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bodacious Space Pirates | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_da242be4 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_de8ae019 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_de8ae019 | comment |
Planets in the Star Carrier series use this for the purpose of navigation. Inhabited planets are given local names that are used interchangeably with the star-number name. For example, the planet visited in Earth Strike is named both Eta Boötis IV and Al Haris al Sama ("Guardian of Heaven" in Arabic). | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_de8ae019 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_de8ae019 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Carrier | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_de8ae019 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e179ec3a | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e179ec3a | comment |
Planton V from Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e179ec3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e179ec3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Calvin & Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e179ec3a | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e235270c | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e235270c | comment |
In Stellaris uninhabited planets are numbered, and moons have their primary's number plus a lowercase letter. But when colonized (or discovered to host a pre-FTL species) they are renamed with either a suggestion based on your empire's chosen naming convention, or something entered by the player. However, if you put a number of some other numerical designation in your homeworld's name the AI will suggest similar namesnote for instance, calling your homeworld [System Name]Prime will get your first colony in a system a similar name, while the second colony in a given system will be [System Name]Secundus and a third would be Tertius. The Solar System objects are given their Real Life names if the United Nations of Earth (or a custom Terran civilization) is in the game, but if Sol is not inhabited by a spacefaring race the usual custom is followed, and "Sol III" always happens to be inhabited by a non-spacefaring race of sapient humans (or post-apocalyptic cockroaches). Pre-2.4 the homeworlds of pre-FTL species had non-numbered names before they were surveyed. |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_e235270c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e235270c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stellaris (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e235270c | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e2ec0005 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e2ec0005 | comment |
The Golden Age series has planets Excelsis-One through Five. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e2ec0005 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e2ec0005 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Golden Age / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e2ec0005 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e5fd2cef | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e5fd2cef | comment |
In one of the Lensman novels, Tregonsee comments in passing that he thinks of his homeworld as Rigel IV, and only bothers with a more accurate designation if he needs to give astrogation coordinates. This implies that the Rigellians don't have an independent name for their homeworld (but could simply be Lens-related Translation Convention). Some other planets from the series are also named this way, such as Aldebaran I and II, Lyrane II, Thrallis II and IX, Palain VII, and Velantia III. |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_e5fd2cef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e5fd2cef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lensman | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e5fd2cef | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e69e53ea | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e69e53ea | comment |
Justified in Have Space Suit – Will Travel, since Vega V's real name is unpronounceable to humans. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e69e53ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e69e53ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Have Space Suit – Will Travel | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e69e53ea | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e9e2b5e9 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e9e2b5e9 | comment |
Parodied in Starslip when Vanderbeam visits the planet Oculus IV, which inhabited by a race of blind aliens. Once Vanderbeam comments on the "irony", his host replies that there is none since only humans call the planet Oculus IV (they call it "J'tlz'kr") and that he's tired of every single human visitor bringing up the same observation. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e9e2b5e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_e9e2b5e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Starslip (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_e9e2b5e9 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eac6616d | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eac6616d | comment |
Stars in Dyson Sphere Program are named, but the planets themselves are numbered, so you can have the star Akibara, and the planets Akibara I, Akibara II, Akibara III and Akibara IV. They're also numbered based on proximity to the star (closest to farthest), with satellites named after the planet they're orbiting (so if the planet is called Akibara II, then the closest satellite to the planet is Akibara III, for example). | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eac6616d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eac6616d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dyson Sphere Program (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_eac6616d | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eaebcae5 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eaebcae5 | comment |
Fireball XL5 simply numbered planets: Planet 46, Planet 72, Planet 83, etc. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eaebcae5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eaebcae5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fireball XL5 | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_eaebcae5 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_ed422854 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_ed422854 | comment |
No Man's Sky: If it's not A Planet Named Zok or based on the conventions of Naming Your Colony World, then a planet will follow this convention. (Not only are there planets that follow this convention, but whole star systems do, too.) Examples include Usnusven II, Quidar II, Daiman IX, Noyade IX, Spekira II, Oria V, Ahktun VII, Soleth Prime, LV-426, Hx III, Darko IX, Utwarzers XI, and Vesta Prime. Sometimes can be invoked by players themselves as they keep track of where they've been and encountered Atlas Stations. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_ed422854 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_ed422854 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| No Man's Sky (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_ed422854 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_edeb147c | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_edeb147c | comment |
Dragon Ball Z has a minor example in Frieza's conquered planets - they all bear his name (indicating that he owns them), and a numeral, probably to indicate in what order they were obtained. Vegeta recovers on Frieza Planet 79 before heading to Namek. His brother seems to follow a similar practice, as two of his henchmen are said to come from Cooler Planet 98 and Cooler Planet 256. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_edeb147c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_edeb147c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragon Ball Z | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_edeb147c | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eec3eb25 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eec3eb25 | comment |
In Line of Delirium, the Silicoids number their worlds instead of naming them. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eec3eb25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_eec3eb25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Line of Delirium | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_eec3eb25 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f040c498 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f040c498 | comment |
The Robots of Dawn: The moons of Aurora, in the Tau Ceti system, are called Tithonus I and Tithonus II, named after the Greek prince of Troy, and lover of Eos. | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f040c498 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f040c498 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Robots of Dawn | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_f040c498 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f04b4111 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f04b4111 | comment |
Metroid: Tallon IV, although it's sort of confusing in Metroid Prime. There's a room that gives you a holographic display of the solar system. Tallon IV is actually the fifth planet in that system and the system itself is called the Ooromine System. There is an Ooromine II, but the other planets have distinctive names. This includes Zebes (the planet of the original Metroid and Super Metroid), Billium and Twin Tabula. The Metroid home planet is SR388. Justified as the name is a catalog name given by the Federation. The planet was never colonised by them (due to certain nasty energy-sucking jellyfish-things) and so there's no reason for a proper name. Dread demonstrates the Chozo who lived there called it "Agar Nalima". Samus' own home colony is K2-L, which was little more than a small mining settlement. Metroid Dread takes place on a planet simply called "ZDR", another catalogue entry. The Chozo who actually lived there refer to it in dialogue as "Tari Nalima". |
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| Numbered Homeworld / int_f04b4111 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f04b4111 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metroid (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Numbered Homeworld / int_f04b4111 | |
| Numbered Homeworld / int_f481d3e4 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
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Prometheus is set on LV-223. | |
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Babylon 5: It's mostly only colony worlds that retain numbered designations: Epsilon 3, Proxima 3, Deneb IV, Vega 7, Orion 4, Orion 7, or the disputed Centauri colony at Ragesh 3. The only exception is the colloquial name of Centauri Prime (it's supposed to be named Durana, but nobody ever uses it), but it's possible that this is a back-designation and there's a "New Centauri" somewhere in the Centauri Republic. Minbar is also known to humans as Chi Draconis VII. The Centauri refer to some of the planets in their current or former space as Alpha or Beta followed by a number (short for "Centauri Alpha" and "Centauri Beta"). Thus, when they claimed Earth (that lies in the middle of former Centauri space but was not reached before they left the area) was a Lost Colony and Earth proved they weren't they could explain it with a "clerical error:" |
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Supreme Commander has several. | |
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Some Transformers continuities have: Delta Pavonis IV, Rigel III, Rigel 6, Centaris Seven, Ceti Alpha Seven, Deneb IV, Hydrus Four, Floron 3, Daffodil II, Kaiba-5, Regalis V, Regulon Four, Talos Four, Taros Four, Planet Q, LV-117, Gorlam Prime, and Planet X. | |
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Standard procedure for Obin-controlled planets in Old Man's War, due to their Creative Sterility and lack of individual identity. Despite the trope name, their homeworld Obinur is the one exception, although its name is basically the Obin equivalent of humans calling Earth "home of humans". | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had the episode "First Contact" (not to be confused with the movie), featuring a previously uncontacted race who believed that they were a higher species and their planet was the center of the universe, but they called it by the Federation name of Malcor III (justified by the near-Omnipotent universal translator). | |
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