Time to Name your Planet

Anyone know if they're going to put the number of the planet or moon designation at the end? Like, if I put my planet name as "Smorgasbord"... would it then be Smorgasbord II if it was the second planet in the system?

I always thought it's just one planet. I wonder how it will look when it wouldn't correspond with Star name.

What's the celestial body nomenclature anyway, Stardock?

Seanmurraylied ok?

Quoting Hunam_, reply 3

Seanmurraylied ok?

Hahah, I like that one

Since there is going to be procedural generated environments, I would imagine that the planet names will form up a database type list for the game to pull from. Though how that translates into player experience will be an interesting feature to watch as the game progresses.

This is gonna take some creative thinking.   

Haha, but it could be "SEAN MURRAY LIED" and still be 16 characters.

But seriously, I chose "SHADESMAR" and it is covered by fair use. (I checked.)

It's such a hard decision... Kalan (from my universe), Syrinx (the Space Egyptian planet from Rush's 2112 that might have inspired Stargate), Klinshai (name of the Klingon homeworld in SFB)... or Sheboygan III (the "planet of comedy" from SFB from "The Creature That Ate Sheboygan III").  I'm going to have to think about this for a while...

Yes, this is one of the biggest decisions of our lives.

My baby is born right around the cutoff date, so I'm thinking of naming the planet after her! "Clementine"

But also, my favorite Sci-Fi books are the Three Body Problem, has anyone read it?! Tri-Solaris would be an awesome name for a world.

Also, my unique handle that literally no one has on earth, Cuorebrave which is actually a funny story. I used Google Translate back in the days when it was terrible (it's still terrible, why is that such a hard thing to do?!) to translate my favorite movie's name - "Brave Heart" into Italian. It didn't know the word for "brave", so it just spit it back as "brave"... "cuore brave". I took that as golden and adopted it as my new handle, lol.  Little did I know that 5 years later, I'd live in Italy and realize... while there's not a direct word for "brave" in Italian, there IS "Impavido" for "fearless" and "Coraggioso" for "courageous"! And that "brave" pronounced "bra-vey" is NOT, in fact, Italian for "brave". But it had already stuck!! It helps now, because any time I want to sign up for a website or forum, I am guaranteed to get "cuorebrave" because it's such a ridiculous non-word!!!!!!! SHHHH!!! Don't tell anyone! 

Don't worry NDA on these forums.

It would also be hilarious if we all submitted the SCII alien names as planets, just to get them IN THE GAME - I call Melnorme!!!!!!

Or Nelmorme.

Hi,
cuoreimpavido.

I am Hunam from planet Earp (wall-e reference).

(my nickname is an obvious "Human" that Spathi butchered)

I'm thinking either my last name or the city I was born in - Saransk.

New Saransk! 

Is anyone gonna make it their life's work to find their own planet?

What would be super cool if the game knew your planet name and had a side-quest to help you find it.

Cute idea! it will mark her in the game forever! and no never read it, but i plan checking it!

Well! now i know your name history and can admit that i always found it weird (not that weird is bad)

SURE, I NEED TO FIND MY PLANET, SEE THE ANIMALS THAT EVOLVED THERE!... And blow it up <3

hehehe

I Have a question, i don't know if this was mentioned or not... but are we (the founders) going to appear in the Special Thanks in the Credits? it would be neat too...

as for a name, i have to think harder on it... My persona on the interwebs and everywhere really, is SHADE or SHADE MEADOWS... will think about it, i can come up with sci-fy names or acronyms or anagrams for something deep in my life

or just "BickDutt"

I have question actually about how the 'lore' for this name a planet thing works.

Usually when you visit planets,  the naming of the planet is arbitrary to the explorer if there are nobody on the planet.  So where do these names come from?  Some crew member of yours says "let's call this XXXXX". 

Planets only have names for themselves already, if there are aliens or inhabitants living on them telling their names.

Doesn't make sense to be exploring the galaxy and then your computer nav says this planet is already named.   Or there's some sign on the planet that says,  "this planet was claimed and named."

Does this make sense to you guys?

Yes it does.

We are talking about a galaxy with aliens and galactic civilizations. 

ALL stars and planets will have been visually discovered already.

We humans on earth have already named many stars despite the fact that we have not visited any stars yet and don't live in that star system.

The viewpoint that a planet can only be named because someone "visited it" is quite frankly a very bad humancentric habit, like Columbus "discovering" America despite the fact that there were people living in the Americas and it did not "need" discovering.

Then again there are not that many Founder's with the privilege to name planets so I doubt it will look weird or clutter the space.

Probably in the game you will be provided with a starmap from the first alien you meet anyway, so most likely those names have been attached to planets since the age of the precursors.

It is up to us to create a convincing story line / backdrop for the planet.

My backstory

RonPimpster's planet.  It's a sex slave planet full of pleasures.    Sex bots to buy!  oh yea.

Or one of those type of planets in reference to the Syreen and their Uniquely shaped Ship. 

Planet where you might find a Jabba the Hut with a slave leia

I considered "Greatest Kali" (the implication being that there is a "Kali" and "Greater Kali")

But eventually I simply opted for "Abons Peace"

I was looking to change my avatar and I somehow found the name a planet dialog.   I saw no one else named one yet so I thought about it, ran some names through an alien language cipher I made....  Then I remembered a name and popped it in and then came here to tell everyone about the naming place and here I find everyone already knows.   Anyway here's a link to make life easier:  www.starcontrol.com/nameaplanet/

When you are naming fleets of ships you normally come up with specific names for the humans... and then only refer to all alien ships by their "human supplied code names" with just a single name for any ships of that class.  You have names of cities, countries, people, etc to name the human fleet.  Just try making up 300 nonsense alien ship names for an enemy fleet and see how far you get.  This is based on the real world.  The "names" you hear for Russian military equipment are not what the Russian's call them, they are the names that NATO gives them.  The Russians don't call a Sierra-class submarine "Sierra", for example, we do.  I don't know what they call Sierra, but they call an SU-35 "Cyxon"... we don't.

So the naming of planets would be the human's names for them, unless they had contacted people who actually live on a world who could tell them the name.  Then, our of respect, we would call the planet what they call it.  Unlike simple equipment, where we just stick with our own established names even after we find out what the Russians call it.

In my case, I submitted Tovanion. I know it's my handle on this forum.

Long story short, it's the name of the D&D world I created, continents, races, civilizations and all. So since I already built a world on my own, why not immortalize it in SCO?

Certainly we name things according to our conventions.

But you don't arbitrarily give out completely outrageous names to things already existing.

Almost all cities around the world are called by the name they are called in their language.

Some names do evolve to aid in pronunciation but still stay similar.

According to someone, "just try making up 300 nonsense alien ship names for an enemy fleet and see how far you get." Which is why you would just use the names given to the alien ships by the aliens.

why reinvent the wheel?

If an alien calls a planet Obnoxitoid. Why should we as humans come and say, "Nah I don't like the name Obnoxitoid. I will name this planet after my great-great-great grandmother Edna. And this little planet after my dog Fwiffo. And this other ugly planet over there after my ex." You are still thinking human-centric.

In a galaxy filled with aliens we don't go about naming planets which might have already being named or have a history.

When you travel to other countries do you start naming streets, roads, and towns according to your preferences?

Maybe when Trump becomes president he will start calling America, Trumpmerica, and the other countries Weakrussia, Smallengland, Dirtyafrica, Crazycanada, Smellyfrench, Cheapchina.