Fun World Names

[leo knight]

Not funny, but a lot of my world names are puns or in-jokes to help me remember what the world is like. I started doing this when I rolled up a zero government, zero law level world. I had been reading Libertarian author Robert J. Ringer, so my friend Dan suggested the world be named Ringer's World. I decided that the gas giant should be named Galt, serviced by the Rand Fueling Station.

A few more:

A TL5 near-desert world. I had read about an Australian town named Coober Pedy, where the inhabitants mine opals. They have expanded their mines into subterranean homes, some quite elaborate. I thought "Coober Pedy" sounded a bit silly, but fortunately, a nearby town had a cooler name: Marble Bar.

An over crowded hellhole. I misremembered the author of "Make Room, Make Room", the basis for "Soylent Green" as Richard Matheson (actually, it's Harry Harrison), but Matheson had a nice ring to it.

Another "Why would anyone live there?" world. I was on a "Firefly" kick, so Perdition seemed a nice fit.

An Area-51 type planet named Lazar, after Bob Lazar, a fellow who claimed to have worked on reverse engineering captured flying saucers. Everything was named after people I remembered from my childhood reading of UFO lore. The gas giant was Zamora, after Lonnie Zamora, a claimed UFO witness.

A balkanized planet named Montague, after one of the families in "Romeo and Juliet".

Lots of little moonlike planets. Koenig, after the Moonbase commander on "Space 1999"; Zerodia, after "Moon Zero Two"; Gerry's Folly, after TV producer Gerry Anderson; Seldora, a mashup of Selene (I'd just read "First Men in the Moon" again) and Andorra, a tiny European principality.

 

[leo knight]

Also, four water worlds: Panthalassa, meaning 'all ocean'; Seaview, after "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"; Primus, after an Ivan Tors scuba TV show; and Spindrift, after the ill-fated ship on "Land of the Giants".

 

[karakris]

This all looks good - Guys

Hmmmm

Lots of good names here.

I may need to use some.

I was playing - now running, a Game in a future Sci-Fi Universe, in another Site.

Yay - for my sterling work in stopping the Game from dying - I was appointed Game Master - so it is now the "Krisyverse" instead of the "Dashyverse". mega:

Earth about 150 years in the future - now with obsecenely fast FTL Drives - 100,000 times the Speed of Light - and special one-off Z-Drive, 10,000,000 time the Speed of Light. We are Colonising other Star Systems - and now expanding after a very short but destructive Civil War.
Humanity is in a Loooooong war with Aliens who have taken over most of this Galaxy.
So - I am busy - Ten Players now, including me.
I am sort of Schizo, with two heads - one as G.M. and one as a System President. :alpha:

I was refered to this site by the fella playing the Science Advisor / Director in my System.

Sorry for my ignorance - but I know nothing at all about "Traveller". aragraph:

Best Wishes to all :toast:

 

[karakris]

Thanks - I am USING Them.

Also, four water worlds: Panthalassa, meaning 'all ocean'; Seaview, after "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"; Primus, after an Ivan Tors scuba TV show; and Spindrift, after the ill-fated ship on "Land of the Giants".

I have added all these to my list of Names - from my "krisyverse" in another place. YES - I am G.M. of an S.F. Game.

We are naming New Discovered Systems with Greek Letters anyway - so we have found the Omega System.

Omega III ( 85% water ) is proposed to be called "Piscemund" ( Fish World )

Omega IV ( 99% water ) is nearly ALL water, so is to be called "Panthalassa".

I will keep the names 'Seaview' and 'Spindrift' for Cities on these worlds.

'Spindrift' would best be on the Planet "Panthalassa" with only 1% land area - any land would seem like a bit of spume or spindrift, in the all-engirdling Sea.

Thanks Guys.

I have also added Primus, Marble Bar, Perdition, Lazar, Zamora, Zerodia, Seldora, Stendec, Sendac, Bilani to my List - from other people's Posts.

Just for interest - we have some Friendly Aliens in our Confederation in my "krisyverse" - the Kolee, the Halthoe, the Leith, the Rastor - and guess what, the Goram.
The Goram are expert at mining and mineral processing - and Industrialising rapidly, and big time. Maybe they will build Armament Factories.
Then we really could have Goram Genades -

as in "Throw the Goram Grenade !!" .... pause ... "** BOOM !!**".

Sorry - that one still rolls me up.

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

Has anyone just come up with silly or fun names for the worlds they create?

Enya - A pleasant enough world, even though five years may pass between significant events. Otherwise, its melancholy society tends to drive people to other worlds in search of a more exciting and joyful environment.

I 'invented' this world in response to one of my players, who was obsessed with the musical triad of the same name. Unfortunately, he was so upset with the sad, dark, gothic environment that I depicted that he quit the gaming group completely.

 

[karakris]

Not really FUN Names -

But I just loved the names of Worlds and Places in Larry Niven's - "Leshy Circuit" series of Worlds.

"Night on Mispec Moor" was one of my favourite short stories from that series of stories - at night, the strange plants take-over the bodies of the dead from a battle, and go on a rampage like "Dawn of the Dead".
One of the survivors is having a hard time with them - but they can be "cured" to normal dead - by injections of Spectra-Cure, so it must be a disease !!
When dawn comes - they crawl away and root themselves to the ground, becoming more of the strange plants.

Sorry - too much Off-Topic, I know.