How are you naming your planets?

Figured I'd start a new thread, out of the of chest-thumping and penis-measuring of a pissing contest that the main BNT thread has become , to talk about how everyone is naming their planets.

So I've got a bunch of planets named after those within the Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (c) universe, and another bunch named after planets in the universe of the Hyperion cantos (by Dan Simmons).

What about the rest of you? Star Trek, I assume, for some. Star Wars? Haven't seen any of those personally. Who's got Stargate universe planets? Any others worth mentioning? Three Stooges, anyone? Favorite bands? Family members? Favorite diseases?

C'mon, I'm sure there's some clever folks playing this game, right? Right?

 

I'm trying to find my first planet, which will, of course, be named after one of the four rivers of the Underworld.

Styx, probably.

 

With my first account, I was naming my worlds after the twelve colonies. After that account died I started over with my new planets being named in honour of their nuked brethren. So there is a New Caprica out there somewhere.

I have a few obligatory Futurama references, and then others are just the default names because when you are doing heavy planetary building it gets boring coming up with dozens of names.

 

At first, I used famous places in the Old West like Dodge City, Tombstone, etc. Then the 5 stooges came along, followed by the first five letters in the phonetic alphabet, then I just used the default names for the same reasons Bailey had.

 

Damn--y'all got so many planets that you've run out of names for them?!? I must really suck at this game!

 

Alpha I-V, Beta I-V, Charlie I-V, etc.

 

and Evil Girlie Parts seemed fitting for me.

 

[action=phantomofthenet]fondles that T-shirt again...[/action]

The Star Kingdom of Manticore ought to be obvious to any self-respecting geek. And I just name planets for what comes to mind at the moment.

 

I've decided my planets will henceforth be named after planets found in Stars! . Unfortunately, I sat down to brainstorm a list, and it's been so long since I played that game, I could only come up with three or four good ones. I could open a game or two and look, but I don't need to get sucked in again at this particular point in time

 

... Probably.

 

After philosophers, economists, scientists, mythological characters, etc.

 

I have 100+ worlds, I don't bother naming them anymore.

In the beginning I was naming them after what I was planning to trade from them but that strategy seems to be very limited in scope, only for the first week or so and just to boost your standard trading income.

After that I was just conquering systems, so I just left them as is; any of my worlds with a funky name was something I took from someone else (ie. Chulak in 134).

Once I just started into heavy world building I just left them the default since I can tell at a glance what sector they're in and it helps me figure out my trade routes quickly.

I also have a bunch of "Unnamed" that I've developed (in fact all but one of my worlds are developed at this point, the last being a tribute to the person I conquered it from if they ever want to take it back). I just never bothered to rename them anything interesting because frankly, I don't much care about them.

 

Starbucks. They're all called Starbucks. And I'm putting up new ones every day.

 

I go with scifi names or funny names. I found 'garbage world' which I renamed 'Recycled World' and then built 'Reduced' and 'Reused' world.

I also have Alpha Centauri Pi

 

[?=a nice convenient list for me to pick from]
Wobegon
Sea Squared
Blue Ball
Flaming Poodle
Nu (etc.)
Globular Rex
Wrench
Red Ball
Leaky Pipe
Ice Patch
Talking Desert
Delta Delta Delta
Gunk
Fizbin
Dyson
Godel
Afterthought
Revelation
Mana
Woozle
Sand Castle
Cinnamon
Draco
Molybdenum
Snuffles
Red Giant
Black Hole
Radian
Lekgolo
Yuppie Puppy
Horselover Fat
Hoze-O-Rama
Bob
Wobbly
Wammalammadingdong
Nope
Aluminum
Zebra[/?]

 

I'm thinking about going with medical/disease names once I run out of Andromeda and Hyperion planet names. You know, stuff like:

Endometriosis
Epidermis
Lupus
Herpes
ArterioLateralSchlerosis
Cirrohsis
etc...

 

I just built some new ones. Now the planet 'Sullust' shares its orbit with 'Near Sullust' and 'No Rebel Fleet Here'.

 

^ Come to think of it -- just before we reset the game, I should boost Beam and all my other fighting techs as high as I can get them and bulk up one of my worlds with a base and gobs of fighters and energy, and then rename it "Inoperational Battlestation".

 

How about 'immobile battlestation'?

 

That might be a little too subtle, especially since nobody else'd be likely to see it anyway.

 

Another thing I miss from Trade Wars...the ability to outfit your worlds with transwarp drives and go wandering around the galaxy.

 

Called my Darkenings willy just to stop people landing on it.

 

Started with a Brit theme, but it sounds a bit silly after a while. I like the ones I've got, but if we reboot I'll probably go with another naming system.

 

Just found a load of cash in my IGB bank...no idea who it came from.

 

I used to use neat names (in past games) but it just makes management easier to use <sector#>-<planet#>. I remove the prefix from the default basically.

 

Don't ask. Don't tell.

 

I wonder if it was before or after he found a condom in his ass.