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I am writing a book and trying to work out the plotline before i write anything further.

It is a sci-fi novel and i am sending my characters to a futuristic mining planet and i need a name for it.


Does anyone on here have any ideas?

Come on, anyone, anything i can adapt from there. :(

Planet of the rabid ninja monkeys.

No? Um... Tskrantsk? Hobbleflun? Zuletor Ektubrani? Qaksion Prime? Julakwach?

Earth Mark Two?

Minos

It's a mining planet.

Excavation.

Excavion.

Beurican, Fesminia, Porin, Meusin, Boorica, Sampica, Wooma, Bluepos, Gregoria and Soosania.

Note: I just made this up and have no idea if the words mean something in any language. Hope it helps.

It has to have a ring to it.

I like some of the ideas put forward.

I had an idea for it:

Ologost. but i realised i all ready used it for the characters alpha aite.
(its a military book set in 2160)

Traditionally, planets are named after deities (traditionally Roman, but might expand to other mythologies if enough are discovered).

Given that it's a mining planet, I'm thinking mining-> heavy industry-> forges-> Vulcan.

Guidmod Enhanede.
Smulu
Yokaton
Vergri
Faezhiord
Noliona
Hestaflichew

Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisogion?

Vulcan.

Somewhat unoriginal...

What about Miletus, the name of an old Roman city?

Oh, it's pronounced "my-leet-us", by the way.

Traditionally, planets are named after deities (traditionally Roman, but might expand to other mythologies if enough are discovered).

Given that it's a mining planet, I'm thinking mining-> heavy industry-> forges-> Vulcan.

Traditionally yes but the planet is in a different galaxy in a far off part of the universe.

the inhabitants would have named the planet.

Thraxus.

It sounds industrial and slightly unpleasant. As i imagine a mining world might be.

Or perhaps Middlesborough.

What about Miletus, the name of an old Roman city?

Oh, it's pronounced "my-leet-us", by the way.

I don't want anything that has been used in history.

the other planets in the book so far are:

Kellonia
Ologost
Gaia (that is from one of my other book ideas, i know it is already used innhistory and such but it has been named that for reason.)

I don't want anything that has been used in history.

the other planets in the book so far are:

Kellonia
Ologost
Gaia (that is from one of my other book ideas, i know it is already used innhistory and such but it has been named that for reason.)

Ah, well then... Hmm.

T'noffi
Zisce
Crolo
Remoren Ehecturotsni
Wizak
Jort
Zi
Mbatkwair
Thrask

Thraxus.

It sounds industrial and slightly unpleasant.

Or perhaps Middleborough.


I shall give a little info on what the planet will be like.

Very technologically advanced
supplies minerals and other resouces to the planets in its solar system.
they have a huge fecking defence system for their planet.
They are against violence (except in self defense, hence the huge defense system).

Have any of my ideas been any good so far?

What about Miletus, the name of an old Roman city?

Oh, it's pronounced "my-leet-us", by the way.

It was my understanding that, despite latin pronunciations being taught in the US and perhaps other places, the exact pronunciation of Latin is not know. All that IS know is the written language.

"Kanathria IV." This is the fourth, and last, of the moons of Selendria; a planet in the outer rim of the Solarian galaxy. It is the one satellite body universally feared by the Solarians.

I am writing a book and trying to work out the plotline before i write anything further.

It is a sci-fi novel and i am sending my characters to a futuristic mining planet and i need a name for it.


Does anyone on here have any ideas?Describe the planet. What is the Environment like?
what are the miners... Criminals, low paid hands, corporate flunkies...

the planet can have multiple names. one that the govenment gives it and one that the inhabitants (miners) give it.


what about the system. two suns? does it rotate so you have night and day or nightside and Dayside.

It was my understanding that, despite latin pronunciations being taught in the US and perhaps other places, the exact pronunciation of Latin is not know. All that IS know is the written language.

People can work out the pronunciation (roughly). it wouldn't be my leet us, though - thats an English language pronunciation. My guess is more like "mee-let-oos" (based on latin-derived languages).

Kessel
Oh wait, that's taken.

Have any of my ideas been any good so far?

Yes they have.



A little about the environment:

The environment has a lot of mountains and such for mining and it has a floating station where the miners live during their work shifts (which last anywhere up to a month or so) the cities are on the other side of the planet which looks much like Earth in its countryside except it has an untouched, unpolluted feel to it. It has crystal clear lakes. The inhabitants are humans (as millions of years ago humans lived on one planet far off into the universe. this planet is unknown, but my characters seek to find it thus they seek other humans in the universe.)

there is one sun, but this planet provides all other planets with technology as they are allies (the system is frequently attacked) the technology they lend are weather viels. these make the climate suitable for sustaining life.

What kind of feel do you want? A gentle, flowing name or something a bit harsher? Are consonant clusters good or bad? What about diphthongs?

They are a friendly yet noble race who.
I care not for the feel of the name as it would have been given by the first inhabitants of the planet. and they would not share the same beliefs.

Most famous mining planet in Star Wars: Peragus

My recommendation: Aegis V

They are a friendly yet noble race who.
I care not for the feel of the name as it would have been given by the first inhabitants of the planet. and they would not share the same beliefs.

But language evolves. As the civilisation evolved, so would language, and thus, the name of the planet would alter, even if only slightly.

Besides, the feel of the name affects how a reader feels towards the planet - what kind of impression do you want to give?

Batson.

Fred.

A little about the environment:

The environment has a lot of mountains and such for mining and it has a floating station where the miners live during their work shifts (which last anywhere up to a month or so) the cities are on the other side of the planet which looks much like Earth in its countryside except it has an untouched, unpolluted feel to it. It has crystal clear lakes. The inhabitants are humans (as millions of years ago humans lived on one planet far off into the universe. this planet is unknown, but my characters seek to find it thus they seek other humans in the universe.)

there is one sun, but this planet provides all other planets with technology as they are allies (the system is frequently attacked) the technology they lend are weather viels. these make the climate suitable for sustaining life.
Mythos baised
Gaia: symbolic for what the planet provides.
Elysia: Elysian feilds. heaven.
Eden: symbolic if you have hidden horrors or secrets under the idylic surface.

Parallel basied
Terah: Bastardization of Terra
Ert: Bastardization of Earth.

Earth designation.
Quarant/Parscet/sector - number QPS-012

how important is the name for your story?

JRV's a nice name.

If you don't like vowels, you could use only syllabic consonants, e.g.

Lmnr

Fred.What's wrong with Bob?

Glenfeinyul.

Here are some suggestions:
Versina
Aveyal
Ixil
Ilmina
Narane
Jibyr
Zield

Err, I do hope none of those have been taken by other books or movies or anything.

What's wrong with Bob?
It's been done.

It's been done.
Been Done...

Bien Dunn

Hey howabout Beindunn

Greek letters always followed by numbers work, or you might also use a polytheistic god's name.

uische beatha

Naming A planet eh?

commonly used methods:

Take a word associated with watever your doing and mess it up a bit...

For mining? hmmm....

Gravel= Grevail
shaft= Shaefet

or just combine some words...

Gravel+shaft= Graeft
dirt+shovel= Dirshel

or take a cool language, for example latin, and translate it...

Broken ground=Infractus humus

I'm not sure how good that last one was but you get the idea.

that's if you want it to make at least a little sense. if you just want something that sounds cool you can pretty much make up anything. how do you think I got kholar :D

Does anyone on here have any ideas?

Duh .... Keruvalia!

Duh .... Keruvalia!
Hmm, I'd use it for a Medievel Europe kinda thing.

Plutoniaum IV

But language evolves. As the civilisation evolved, so would language, and thus, the name of the planet would alter, even if only slightly.

Besides, the feel of the name affects how a reader feels towards the planet - what kind of impression do you want to give?

A feeling of uncertanty. As there is mystery around the inhabitants as to wheteher they are friend or foe. My main character is not very trustworthy of anyone.

There are loads of fantastic ideas. May use these for other planets in the series (i am writing a series of books. I already have some of the storylines planned out for the second and thrid book.)

Bananaphone

erm...no...

erm...no...
Erm-no?

Call it France and just put it down to some huge intergalactic coincidence.

God no.

God no.
Why not? It's a mining planet, you could have sections where people call 'France' a hellhole because of the dust and these strange snooty beings that smell strongly of Galacta-garlic. :D

(I'm joking, please do not kill me if you are French *ducks and covers*)

(I'm joking, please do not kill me if you are French *ducks and covers*)
Chikatopia
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I think you are safe

I would never call a planet that is to be a main part in my book...France.....uhgggg

yup i'm english

I would never call a planet that is to be a main part in my book...France.....uhgggg
It would certainly keep you from naming it too much

Hmm, I'd use it for a Medievel Europe kinda thing.
I'd use it for a girl who likes to wear melons on her head and screams 'I'm a television', while running around, making silly faces and plain scary noices.

planet name suggestion: Angleterre.

why not Terra.

why not Terra.

It's been done.

It's been done.
How about terra cotta. It could be a clay mining planet :p

How about Minopius-gamma-ZZR26?
Or better yet - Earth! It could be a bg twist that the nameless mining planet turns out to be Earth...and that chimps now run it.

The main characters originally came from Earth so it wouldn't be Earth...and no apes.

Zafon Beta.

Inowou Epsilon
O'Oxyor
Moruna
Pyaun
Oikw
Ap'Ojoko Secundus
Wire
Myr
A.C.E. Otahefo

Sosbaminio

ps. Let me know when the book is for sale!

I am writing a book and trying to work out the plotline before i write anything further.

It is a sci-fi novel and i am sending my characters to a futuristic mining planet and i need a name for it.


Does anyone on here have any ideas?
Seventh Sanctum (http://www.seventhsanctum.com/) has a Planet Name Generator (http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/planetname.html).

how about hephaestus?

Sosbaminio

ps. Let me know when the book is for sale!

I plan to finish it before christmas, then there is the process of sending it off to publishers, they won't read it, send it back and i will have to send it to them until the buggers decide to read it.

Depending on who is mining what there (and how "unimportant" mining planets usually are), either go for a letter/number combination that looks and sounds good (or spells in h4<k3rc0d3 or whatever) or take a female name (miners are usually males, are they not?) in combination with a roman numeral (to indicate its position in the system which could have the same name?).

Call it L3I4 in the Lando system ;)

I was thinking of a letter combo.

Oh and this mining planet is very important! it supplies all other planets in its system with resources that they need for their weapons and other forms of technology.

I was thinking of a letter combo.

Oh and this mining planet is very important! it supplies all other planets in its system with resources that they need for their weapons and other forms of technology.
Earth enviroment... Gravity, no native sentient life I presume...

who discovered/settled on it. if it's a country, New (country's name) i.e. New Iraq.

what you can do, is not name it, write your story and perhaps a name will come out as you are writing it.

I'm working on my own religion. I am working on a pantheon of 27 dieties and one of them happens to be a goddess/spirit of metal/rock, Riserí.

Ixis or Ixus or Exus or Exos

Ooh! I know ... call it "Rock"

Just "Rock"

Sweet.

Earth enviroment... Gravity, no native sentient life I presume...

who discovered/settled on it. if it's a country, New (country's name) i.e. New Iraq.

what you can do, is not name it, write your story and perhaps a name will come out as you are writing it.


Its not humans from Earth that settled on it. It is humans from the p[lanet where all humans originated (no body knows where that is)

Hmmm...

Rapalm
Orkhadací
Radion <actually, that's a good name for a futuristic telescope-like instrument - not a planet :headbang:>
Vaktarj
Saljuk
Nova <insert name of planet from which your planet was colonized here>
Hâzaf Leidun <sounds better as the name of an evil alien general>
Dîjra

Or you could use the name of an actual NSer. "Menelmacar", "Scolopendra", and "Sdaeriji" all sound like names of good alien planets. Of course, you'll have to ask the said nations if you can use their nation name as a planet...

I'm working on my own religion. I am working on a pantheon of 27 dieties and one of them happens to be a goddess/spirit of metal/rock, Riserí.
*Giggles*

Synstra

Ooh, ooh, I got one with a mini-back story!

The super-rich always claim they got where they were from hard work, right? So, theoretically, they would work hardest in the mines if they thought there was some financial gain greater than playing the markets or whatever. Bear with me here.

The richest people invariably gain wealth with at least some level of shady dealings or downright dealings in organised crime - sure, some make it look legal by sticking the 'good of the empire' behind their greedy foraging, but it all comes down to theft of lands, right? Also, if that doesn't work just use the old 'property is theft' argument to accuse all super-rich folk of crimes. Keep with me, come on...

Now, the super-rich will have ways of getting out of their sentences - slick lawyers, a few bribes, waging war with half the galaxy behind them - so ultimately, no rich person serves a full term in prison for their crimes. The galactic government wants to arrest these people and make them serve their time, but with no effective methods. The solution? This planet, and more specifically, its name. TAX HAVEN.

By calling a planet Tax Haven, the über-rich will be immediately interested. They will want to declare all profits in this place. But a certain planetary 'law' states that the ultimate benefactor of the profits must be present on the planet - but only the benefactors. They won't be happy, but tax free profits will keep them interested.

Next, make up wild stories about the mining of this planet, and the fantastic riches to be made. Plant a few workers there and make it so one of them 'gets lucky' once in a while, thus keeping interest alive. Since only the super-rich can live on this planet, they will see these possible riches as a massive benefit - make it up so this stuff is worth trillions for ounces. The competitive, greedy nature of these people will drive them to work harder. This is the first advantage i.e. you have basically imprisoned these crooks on an horrible, dustbowl of a planet of their own free will. The second advantage is; they are mining whatever there is down there that you wish to mine! Coal, minerals, ore, whatever - as long as it isn't worth much but you can easily turn a profit, it's all good.

So, in summation - call your planet Tax Haven. You can impose sentences on the real galactic crooks whilst turning a tidy profit.

Well an idea might be to give it its offical name first such as

"insert mineral being mined here" plannet sector *** Plantet *** (insert numbers, letters or greek letter names in the *** spaces)

and then give it a more coloquial name that the miners use because of a fameous atribute that planet has

what about Tenalp?

Ooh, ooh, I got one with a mini-back story!

The super-rich always claim they got where they were from hard work, right? So, theoretically, they would work hardest in the mines if they thought there was some financial gain greater than playing the markets or whatever. Bear with me here.

The richest people invariably gain wealth with at least some level of shady dealings or downright dealings in organised crime - sure, some make it look legal by sticking the 'good of the empire' behind their greedy foraging, but it all comes down to theft of lands, right? Also, if that doesn't work just use the old 'property is theft' argument to accuse all super-rich folk of crimes. Keep with me, come on...

Now, the super-rich will have ways of getting out of their sentences - slick lawyers, a few bribes, waging war with half the galaxy behind them - so ultimately, no rich person serves a full term in prison for their crimes. The galactic government wants to arrest these people and make them serve their time, but with no effective methods. The solution? This planet, and more specifically, its name. TAX HAVEN.

By calling a planet Tax Haven, the über-rich will be immediately interested. They will want to declare all profits in this place. But a certain planetary 'law' states that the ultimate benefactor of the profits must be present on the planet - but only the benefactors. They won't be happy, but tax free profits will keep them interested.

Next, make up wild stories about the mining of this planet, and the fantastic riches to be made. Plant a few workers there and make it so one of them 'gets lucky' once in a while, thus keeping interest alive. Since only the super-rich can live on this planet, they will see these possible riches as a massive benefit - make it up so this stuff is worth trillions for ounces. The competitive, greedy nature of these people will drive them to work harder. This is the first advantage i.e. you have basically imprisoned these crooks on an horrible, dustbowl of a planet of their own free will. The second advantage is; they are mining whatever there is down there that you wish to mine! Coal, minerals, ore, whatever - as long as it isn't worth much but you can easily turn a profit, it's all good.

So, in summation - call your planet Tax Haven. You can impose sentences on the real galactic crooks whilst turning a tidy profit.


Could do something like that.

here is a little more back info on my book :


There is a small order of 12 creatures who were the original creators of their respective race.
These 12 are called apon in times of need eg. a possible chance of universal war which the Vercetai bring (the alien race in my book) however 11 of the 12 have to remain dormant so other cannot sense their energy and find a location for them, as they are to powerful togeher. one of them stays awake, the reason he is doing this is because one of the 12 fell in battle, the human creator. The 1 that is awake is tracing one of my main characters (Col. Balhaar) through the universe to try and sway him to thier cause.

the alien finds him on this planet which we are naming and their is a chase through the mines resulting in one of my characters being killed by the creator (he is the Vercetai representive of the 12). thats all i am saying, but i have alot in store for the characters.

what about Tenalp?Nope, too clichéd.


Hey, I just thought of something! You can use the names of real planets as named by the inhabitants. Ex. "Tythanios" = Mars to the rest of us; "Kalkéthion" = Io; "San Jovia" = Aurora... you know.

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

Not bad.

I am really motoring along in the book atm.

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/planetname.html

^Try this^

*Giggles*

What is so funny about it?

take the name of the biggest mining company in the UK and stick some number/letter combo after it. as if they have filled the galaxy with their mining business

as in

phelps dodge PL47B

What is so funny about it?
Not funny, I just think it's cool. That was a happy giggle, not an amused giggle.

Not bad.

I am really motoring along in the book atm.So have you decided yet what to call the planet?

(You could name it after your NS ID. No one else will know. Call it Chikatopia!)

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

Go to http://rinkworks.com/namegen/ and in the textbox in the section labeled "Advanced Interface", copy and paste the following: (m(i|y)n(<V><C>|<V>|<V><D>|<V><s>|<V><C><V><C>))

Voila! A list of names that would be suitable for a mining planet. Not good enough? Refresh the page again!