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Old October 19th, 2006, 04:46 PM
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Default Re: Lack of Star Names

back in the days of my old unfinished grit-tech mod, i imported a list of a few hundred names to use in my system names file.

now the problem with this, in hindsight, is that most of the visible stars in the sky are actually Galaxies. Not something you want to name your solar system. What you actually want, is a list of local stars, or names of stars in the Milkyway.

Now, the large problem here is that there are only actually 2-300 named stars, and theyre all either Latin or Arabic, and a miminum of 500 years old. SE has always had "cultural" design name files, so you might want to name your stars after something different entirely. This also allows you to have more than a few hundred names, if you want to introduce some more variety. or have really frikkin huge maps.

http://www.teapot.orcon.net.nz/maori_star_names.html
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