Random words in Latin are always good. Canis Major, Alpha Arcturus, Lorem Ipsum Prime, that sort of stuff.

Hmm, why is everyone(well, except Katarn) making up non-english-based names? What happened to good old "Junkyard" and the like?

Intra (system to which the initial colonists warped and then got trapped)
New Sol (seriously)
Rhawi
Lost Centaurus (or LC)
Ithaca (this is the island where Ulysses lived)
Bazaar
(drum roll...) Junkyard

maybe I'll think of some more

Anansi (Trixter god of african mythos)
Ananse-Ya
Anasazi ("ancient adversary")
Ziev (lemper-ziev ;)
PDP ( eight asteroids on a line, 4k apart. ;)
the adams station, Special cargo... Books and towels. ;)
Ziwatch
Nigil
Darkmere
Miere
Dau

"Talat - "market""

Ooooh, I like it. I hereby suggest that sector 9 (or whatever is the main trading sector in the new universe) be named Talat. :D

Hmmm... well how about "Vulcun", or "Vulcun Prime" for the Serco Home Planet?

Some other planet/station names...
Amok

(more will be added soon-ish)

where are the names for the sowjet-sectors?

Olga
Katjuscha
Boris
Puschkin
Wladimir
Igor
Rasputin
Sergeii
Rossija

man, i love russian names. Olga was the name of a small tree (a birthdaygift ;) )

(planiey names!)
Zig'alur prime
acktosh'
mmoldon
pieerly prime
THE ROCK
hozayla'
goldenglass(station names!)
ye' old toss(like a old Battle cruser turned to a station)
xxon mine's (sector 7 :D)



thats all for now..

Darokuna
Eguma
Faturim
Galaturi
Pintos
Hemulat
Initra
Davenos Nebula
J'wutis
Kogamar
Sacarno

zalgoth
ziatorth

Come on now. Not every name has to be totally random with lots of apostrophes and odd letter orders. I've found names can be more compelling when they allude to something that you can understand. (Like a ski-slope or a rock climbing route ;] ). Wistful! Aggressive! Sad! Comforting! Poetic! Awown'txks is great, but you can write a ten line c++ program that'll pump out a million of those. Some names that ellicit a response are what we need here.

How about:

The Broken Wings
Sapphire Dawn
Salient March
Refuge
Monument
Shattered Sky
Remnant

These take a little more time, but at least you don't sound like a retarded monkey with a mouthful of twigs when you say them. AND they sound cooler in conversation, "Yeah, I picked up a load of nanites from The Broken Wings, stopped off at Refuge then sold them all over Shattered Sky."

Compare with "Yeah, I picked up a load of nanites from Aaf2omc2, stopped off at Tjwof'wikw'ol'o'o'o then sold them all over POOOltswop.low9#"

Not only can you actually pronounce these names, they turn even the most mundane conversation into prose.

Or you could just pretend everything is an NGC object.

Chimpula Prime
Scimmia Nebula
Scimmie Pianeta
Monkeyoth
Zeb Monkeyus
Singe Lune
Rote Affekugel

MONKEY!!!!!!!

Not to rain on anybody's parade but Incarnate said "We don't want actual star names" for the contest because remember, we're a lost civilization (well mostly civilized) and we're not near our homeworld or homesystem so words like "Mars" don't really work.

I like some of the other ones though, like:

Sangjan - "moonbeam"


And they don't all have to be long alien words with lots of apostrophes, like StarFisher said, we need emotion:


More Planets:

Pyrotha (Fire world, main export, weapons)
Absolution
Pearl (a sea-paradise)
Windsor
Brigantine
Woodmar (Jungle World, (see Endor in Star Wars 6))
Black Planet (a world void of light, a drifting world without a star)
Valor (border world)

More Stations:

Honor (National Defense Outpost (NDO))
Duty (NDO)
Auxi

More Stars:

Flourescence (Bright sun)

First things first:

I really like Pyroman_Ace's suggestion of Prometheus Prime for the Serco Homeworld. *thumbs up*

danielky, it's Guadalupe

On to business...

Providence (Can't tell I'm from New England, can you) :-p
Terra (or New Terra)
Enigma
Kohoutek
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Hala (Means "halo around the moon" in Arabic)
Áine (Means "radiance" in Gaelic)
Sidhe (Pronounced Shee, means "people of the (fairy) hills" or "people of the mounds" in Gaelic.)
Verdonia
Olde

thanks Paed... it's Guadalupe!!!!!!!!

Maybe name them after their supposed position in the galaxy. Or how close they are to the center of known space.
As you get further out:
(allude to the scareness of stars, ending of stars, edge of the galaxy or outpost, borders, old west)

Boundary
Rimward Journey
Star's End
Diamond Sky
Here Be Dragons

As you get closer in:
(allude to more stars, brighter night skies or knowledge, civilization, perverse corporate advertisements)

Centerforge
Stella Genesis
Eternal Sunset
Rumination
Nexus
All You Can Eat 99c!

umm totally random no meaning AFAIK

Azek
Brahae
Conite'a
Dellum
Endegra
Fitima
Geil
Humberta
Ishik
Jallik (could be near Ishik)
Kallik (likewise)
Lassoma
Munt
Nort
O.o ( the supprised planet )
Plennum
Quata
Sedina
Thanaqull
Umm
Velal
Witzend ( mad planet )
Xenomer
Yanich
Zelnad

add any number over 2 to make a random planet name or add 'prime' to make a star or home world ala most space films, books.

I just got bored at work and copied all these names into an Access Database. We're up to 282, and I've got a dump of all the names alphabetized in HTML format. 36kb. I'll keep adding as the days go by, and post a new list each night.

Zahadum, deserted old planet
Epsilon IV
Augosta

btw, why not name some planets after veteranes players who left?

>>Nor are we going to name things after actual players ;)

--Incarnate

Xerusian Prime
Xesperados Outpost
Agerus Central
Xelotos
Bosalian Dominion
Knishnal j'ar
Targanoid
Oracle
Ascension
Entropy
Truth
Thought
Meaning
Crusade
Eternium
Space Mining Corp (SMC)
Distortion