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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9311473" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Don't skip on &quot;vanity plate&quot; naming patterns either.&nbsp; If you've got a Big Evil Megacorp in the setting there's probably a whole series of resource extraction worlds named after them (&quot;Welcome to OmegaCorp Seven!&quot;).&nbsp; Really OTT ones might be more petty, naming systems after executives or even for leverage - the Buck Godot comic has a world named after him as part of a corporate blckmail attempt.Legendary explorer types might have named multiple systems (probably near each other) along a theme - &quot;significant others&quot; were popular in older scifi, with clusters of stars named Trudy, Rubee, Cate, etc. but it could also be a hobby interest (explaining why there are six systems named after obscure Terran birds or whatever) or sheer perversity (naming particularly objectionable systems with obscenities, or flipping that script with deceptive names and doing the Iceland/Greenland trick on a stellar scale).Empires and similar regimes will probably have systems named after leaders, of course.&nbsp; The extravagant ones might even carve local planetoids into zero-gee statuary memorializing Maxxus XXVII or whoever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9311473, member: 7044704"] Don't skip on "vanity plate" naming patterns either. If you've got a Big Evil Megacorp in the setting there's probably a whole series of resource extraction worlds named after them ("Welcome to OmegaCorp Seven!"). Really OTT ones might be more petty, naming systems after executives or even for leverage - the Buck Godot comic has a world named after him as part of a corporate blckmail attempt. Legendary explorer types might have named multiple systems (probably near each other) along a theme - "significant others" were popular in older scifi, with clusters of stars named Trudy, Rubee, Cate, etc. but it could also be a hobby interest (explaining why there are six systems named after obscure Terran birds or whatever) or sheer perversity (naming particularly objectionable systems with obscenities, or flipping that script with deceptive names and doing the Iceland/Greenland trick on a stellar scale). Empires and similar regimes will probably have systems named after leaders, of course. The extravagant ones might even carve local planetoids into zero-gee statuary memorializing Maxxus XXVII or whoever. [/QUOTE]

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