Updated Systemnames file

[Dracus]

This file contains 350 star names. I got these from the offical lists for stars. I left in the 200 names that came with the game . Since only about 10 appear to not to be real names of stars.
The game will randomly use up to 255 of these. So each game you should see a wide varation of names.

Corrected Wolf 359 (made typo)

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[pathfinder]

Super, Thank you!

[Dracus]

You are welcome

[Possum]

Cool stuff! Once, long long ago, in an America far far away, there was a boardgame by a company called SPI, and the name of this game was Starforce Alpha Centauri. One of the many beauties of this game was the way it laid out our arm of the galaxy in beautifully realistic detail, with all their proper names. And although the paper map was necessarily 2D (no ****, Possum), there were +/- coordinates assigned, to show relative positions "above" and "below" the "plane", thus giving you a good idea of the actual 3D positions of the star systems.

[capnq]

Starforce Alpha Centauri...ah, the memories. I enjoyed that so much that I eventually bought the Trilogy pack with the two sequels, Starsoldier and Outreach.

Another old game with an accurate star map was Traveller 2100AD, IIRC. I seriously considered buying that just for the map, but never actually bought it.

[DirkHowitzer]

This is great! Thanks....um one thing though, Worf 349? LOL LOL!!! Shouldn't it be Wolf 349?

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"He's dead, Jim."-- Lt. Commander Leonard "Bones" McCoy |Chief Medical Officer / USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

[Atrocities]

Nope. Wolf 359 is correct.

[Dracus]

you right, I maded a typo. I re-checked the records and it should be worf 359. I have corrected this in the file.
Thanks

[Possum]

Capnq, woo-hah!

The Traveller series! Man, I had forgotten about those, that was a young age of the world ago....

[Tenryu]

Dracus,
I when I made my own list I found that the really long names like "Al Minliar al Shuja" have some problems displaying completely on the interface.

I forget now how many characters is maximum, but you might want to 'shave' a few of the long names down.

That's what I did; for example, I think I cut "Ras Elased Australis" to "Elased Australis".

Nice list BTW http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Dracus]

Thanks, I will cut some of the loger ones down a bit.

[Possum]

I had a question about that list.

Namely, I noticed some systems that were missing, like Epsilon Indi, and Epsilon Eridani, and 82 Eridani...

[Dracus]

I did not find thoses on any records That I looked at. I can add them.

[Dracus]

Poss,
can you give a site that list them?

[raynor]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dracus:
This file contains 3500 star names. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for the file. But doesn't it just have 452 names in it?

Thanks!

[ColdSteel]

452 is what the one I downloaded had in it too.

[Dracus]

The one I posted only had 452 stars in it. I counted the words by mistake rather then the number of star names.

[Possum]

Gladly!

/me unleashes his raging webferret
(cue sound of women screaming)

Epsilon Eridani, a very interesting system, more like our Sol than Vega or Fomalhaut are.
http://www.planetx.com/transhumantech/msg00245.html
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news29.html
http://exoplanets.org/esp/epseri/epseri.html

[Possum]

(Having tasted blood, the webferret courses relentlessly on in pursuit of its natural food, raw data...)

82 Eridani, another system like our own
http://www.solstation.com/stars/82erida2.htm

And check this out, a very cool 3D, fully rotatable and zoomable map of our local area.
http://www.solstation.com/index.html

/me pets his webferret

[Possum]

/me sets his webferret loose on the final search item...

Epsilon Indi, which can also be seen in the map referenced in the previous post, but here it is again. http://www.solstation.com/index.html

Details on Epsilon Indi
http://www.solstation.com/stars/eps-indi.htm

/me gives his webferret a big hug, and then puts it back in its bit-cage.

[pathfinder]

Eridani, eh?!

ahhh, the Eridani Light Horse may ride yet! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon12.gif

hehe

[Dracus]

Thanks
I will have the new updated list within 24 hours.

[pathfinder]

hmmmm..possums n ferrets together....

nasty combo http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Dracus]

New system file will be ready by 5pm texas time today. It has 800 star names. Star names are derived from greek, arabic and egyptian.