From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:40:12 -0400
Subject: [FH] Islamic and Alarishi systems
AE Alarish CP-51°5356 IF New Pakistan CP-51°4413 AE Coronado LTT 4818 IF New Persia CP-58°5467 AE (claim) CD-39°7301 IF New Egypt CD-32°8179 IF New Syria CD-26°8883 PAU KwaZulu CP-45°3978 PAU New Zimbabwe CP-42°4101 AE Huy Braseal Ross 695 IF New Arabia BD-17°3813 IF Dar es Salaam LTT 5455 The Islamic Federation wishes to protest the erroneous assignment by the Interstellar Astrographic Commission of the names "Mesopotamia" and "New Armenia". The correct names are as shown. Alarishi names are references to "paradise". Insofar as I can tell, the name Alarish itself comes from al-'Arish, the wadi between Egypt and the Promised Land. My subconscious hasn't kept me well informed about this, though. I tossed in a couple of PAU names because a) no one else had; b) they're close to me (in fact, closer than Huy Braseal is to Alarish--the list above is sorted by distance from Alarish); and c) I wanted to make sure those names got used. "KwaZulu" means approximately "Zulu Homeland" and "Zimbabwe" is a reference to the great trading kingdom. The Alarishi Empire is claiming CD-39*7301, and there's a G type star there--probably a lot more hospitable than anything the Alarishi own right now. I'll have to figure out why no one has claimed it before now. Maybe we found a KraVak shrine, and that's why they're headed this way?