Ah. I don't recall ever doing theme naming in that way, cult-of-personality style. Holy Bat-cookies!
Years (decades!) ago, I outlined a planet that struck the colonists as kind of spooky, so a fair number of the place names and animal/plant designations carried aspects of that. Darktower Port, from my earlier post, was the only starport they admitted having. There was a kind of ape-like creature the face of which looked just barely canine enough to justify calling that species "werewolf." An aquatic creature they called the "nixie," a bird-analog termed "witch owl," that sort of thing. But there were plenty of other names on the planet that weren't fantasy-related at all.
Name for a government: Conciliar Alliance. The joke here is that "conciliar" means "of the council," and in Russian that would be "Sovietskiy." And Russian uses the same word, "Soyuz," for "Union" and "Alliance." I wonder if C.J. Cherryh knew that at the time she began her Union vs. Alliance universe?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Years (decades!) ago, I outlined a planet that struck the colonists as kind of spooky, so a fair number of the place names and animal/plant designations carried aspects of that. Darktower Port, from my earlier post, was the only starport they admitted having. There was a kind of ape-like creature the face of which looked just barely canine enough to justify calling that species "werewolf." An aquatic creature they called the "nixie," a bird-analog termed "witch owl," that sort of thing. But there were plenty of other names on the planet that weren't fantasy-related at all.
Name for a government: Conciliar Alliance. The joke here is that "conciliar" means "of the council," and in Russian that would be "Sovietskiy." And Russian uses the same word, "Soyuz," for "Union" and "Alliance." I wonder if C.J. Cherryh knew that at the time she began her Union vs. Alliance universe?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.