From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:41:39 -0500
Subject: [FT] Asteroid names, was Re: [FT] NAC Fleet Roster
Quoth the Indy: > I was kinda thinking of the few conventions I've been to and ran FT I've usually gotten descended upon by a 'pack' of FTers. :-) Call it a tip of the hat nod to the list. Ship names for this class come from names of people on the list (eg, HAN, DAVIS, TESKE, ISENBERG, BELL, GUNDBERG, FIELD, etc)< And I was just last night thinking, "I'd like to name some of my asteroids in the Alarishi Empire after people on the list." The first inspiration I had was the two main sites of the Imperial University's Very Long Baseline Array astrocartography project. They orbit about 40 AU out from the Alarishi main star (on opposite sides from each other). With permission, I'll name them Winchell and Chung. My second was Kochte, a scientific station devoted to plasma research. One of their favorite activities is racing around the asteroid--since it is a microgravity environment, they can't run, so they climb... As for the rest of you characters, please bear in mind that in the Alarishi Empire, anyone who can define a territory and occupy it can claim sovereignty. You can set up whatever society you wish, from a family to a corporation to an anarchy to a commune to a whatever. If you'd like an asteroid (rock, ship, habitat, section of one of the gas giant moon's, comet