System Naming Conventions

With so many objects to be found in a star sector, its often impossible - and frankly undesired by the locals - to name them all. Each body in a system should have some sort of designation, though, for navigators and travelers to use. When generating systems, those bodies that are not assigned a name are instead assigned a designation using the following system.

Systems

Un-named systems are identified with a letter describing their type, and the coordinates of the body. The letter used as a prefix to the designation can be:

• S - Stars
• W - White Dwarf
• N - Nebula
• R - Neutron Star
• T - Station
• V - Black Hole
• F - Free planet (this may be either a terrestrial planet or gas giant)

For example, an un-named star system located at (5, 6, 8), might be designated S050608. An un-named White Dwarf located at (15, 2, 57) would be named W150257.

Multiple Star Systems

When more than one star is within a system, the suffix A, B, C, etc. is used to distinguish the stars from each other. For example, say a multiple star system named Sirius contains two stars. The first (and usually the largest) star would be Sirius A. The second would be Sirius B. In some star systems, one star may have a name, while the others do not. So it is very possible to see multiple star systems that might have stars named like 'Correate' and 'S045694 B'. In this case, there is no 'A' star because what would have been the A star already has a name. It is also possible that you will see systems with a list of stars named 'Correate A', 'Correate', 'Correate C'. In this case, the 2nd star probably has a planet called Correate, which gave the star system its name. The other stars within the multiple star system then took on their name based on the one named star within their system.

Planets

Un-named planets (or asteroid belts, space stations, etc.) are designated with their star's name and a Roman numeral suffix to denote the orbital order of the planet around the star. For example, an un-named planet that is the 4th out from a star named Yarrith would be designated Yarrith IV. The 5th planet orbiting an un-named star called S050608 would be designated S050608 V. A planet orbiting an un-named member of a multiple star system might be designated as S045694 B IX if it was the 9th planet around S045694 B.

Planet Systems

Planet Systems are named similarly to Multiple Star Systems. Each un-named planet in a planet system will have an A, B, C, etc. added to its name.

Moons

Un-named moons are identified by their parent planet's name, and a decimal number indicating its orbital order around the planet. For example, the 3rd moon around a planet named Brove would be designated Brove.3.