Interesting location names

Ghastly Knight Ghastly Knight Admin | Freestar Collective Freestar Collective Trailblazer Surveyor
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My testing on the star map has shined a light on some interesting moon/planet names

As I continue to test through the new star map for the site, I've seen some really interesting names - some I knew of already but some I didn't notice before until they began matching against mods that use common words in English.

Here's a list of some that have caught my eye:

  • @Max - Moon in Kryx. Lots of bad matches fixed for the word max. Had to outright exclude it from eligible mod matching.
  • @Ice - Another moon in Kryx. Same as Max.
  • @Worthless - Moon in Delta Pavonis. Had lots of mod matches where their descriptions mentioned some "worthless" thing in the game they fixed. There's even a mod called simply Worthless, so this location will not automatically match on mods.
  • @Voss - Moon in Alpha Centauri. Any mod mentioning Shinya Voss was matching against this moon, but that's been fixed.
  • @Frost - Planet in the Bernard's Star system. I updated mod matching to require proper casing for this lest we match on any biome mod that mentioned frost.
  • @Bitsy and @Itsy - Two moons in Delta Pavonis system. I imagine there's a story behind these two, so I might have to research into that.
  • @Volt, @Ampere, @Ohm, @Coulomb - All electrical units and all moons in Delta Pavonis system around the planet, @Faraday. Multiple weird names for one system. Interesting.
  • @Reva's World - Who is Reva and why is this their world?
  • @Grizzit & @Skink - Unique names. I've posted several photos from Skink with its crystal surface.

Any others I missed, or does anyone know more about these?

I might put together something on the site/map to help folks browse locations by themes like animal names (Wolf, The Pup, Katydid, etc) or scientist/author names (Verne, Sagan, Nikola, Hawking, Copernicus, Archimedes, etc).

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