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Star System EULA

Amusing Star names

September 25, 2006 5:37:32 AM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I just noticed a star system in my current game called EULA. It had no planets so couldn't appear in the colony screen. I assume this is End User License Agreement.

I guess there are a lot of star names to come up with, but EULA? This prompted me to look for other amusing/interesting star names on my map. These are a few I came up with.

Algore (Al Gore)
Begle (Cari)
Bilbo (Baggins)
Bond (James)
Bullwinkle (Moose and Squirell)
Chebychev (Russian mathematician who came up with a set of polynomials that were used to model a class of band bass filters)
Cherryh (Science fiction writer)
Clair (as in Planet Clair from the B52's)
Wardell (Brad)
Yggdradill (I know this comes from a famous scifi book or series but I can't remember which)

There are also a whole bunch of B5 references but I never followed the series enough to get them all.
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Reply #1 September 25, 2006 6:57:44 AM
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Tycho and Gabe (from Penny Arcade) are also star systems. Not to mention Hoth of course. I suppose that when you're trying to make a really long list of names, it becomes hard to keep things original!
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Reply #2 September 25, 2006 7:03:57 AM
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Yggdrasill is the Tree Of Life from Norse (Viking) mythology.
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Reply #3 September 25, 2006 11:09:56 AM
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Isn't Yggdrasill also the name of the Zerg hero overlord in Starcraft?
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Reply #4 September 25, 2006 1:40:37 PM
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Yggdrasill is also the name of a ship in the sci-fi book hyperion
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Reply #5 September 25, 2006 1:51:21 PM
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Isn't Wardell already a system? Or am I thinking of another game?
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Reply #6 September 25, 2006 2:41:22 PM
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Isn't Wardell already a system? Or am I thinking of another game?


Yes it is. Mumble was pointing out the names of different stars on the galaxy map he was playing on.
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Reply #7 September 25, 2006 5:11:21 PM
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as is Loki
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Reply #8 September 25, 2006 5:21:52 PM
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Actually Clair is named after me...
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Reply #9 September 25, 2006 5:36:24 PM
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Yggdrasil is also the name of the coolest ship ever from Xenogears. It starts out as a 'sandcruiser', then becomes a proper 'submarine', then finally it's an honest to gawd Airship. At some point, it's given a fourth form that lasts only long enough for a few cutscenes that have the original ship only part of a giant mecha the size of a city (the actual mecha part /was/ used as the central district of a city, while it was in 'aircruiser' form). It OMGWFTBBQPWNd some big nasty things. After all that, it goes back to being an airship.

But it's still uber-cool.
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Reply #10 September 25, 2006 6:01:21 PM
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OMGWFTBBQPWNd

It's not so much that you used this ridiculus string of internet slang but that I understood what you meant without having to goggle it   BTW isn't it OMGWTFBBQPWNd?
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Reply #11 September 25, 2006 6:23:20 PM
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BTW isn't it OMGWTFBBQPWNd?

... yes.. yes, it is.. I suppose I sometimes type so fast I hit letters out of order.
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Reply #12 September 26, 2006 4:06:31 AM
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'Weber' is also one named after one guy from the Stardock crew.

Check the credits in the game, there are a couple of other star system named after someone involved in the game.
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