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Our Newest Campaign?
WHAT IS OUR NAME?!!
By Miguel Gomez, Co-EditorUndoubtedly every now and then you read online about our ambitious travel plans to another solar system, into the big adventure, in humanity’s push in the unknown, braving new frontiers and conquering impossible odds. The most common name you will hear thrown around is of course Alpha Centauri. Our closest neighboring solar system.
And the exponential growth of TV shows and movies that bear the Star Trek name are an undeniable testimonial to the millions, possibly billions of fans out there hungry for humankind’s conquest of the infinite cosmos, to expand, grow and fill the darkness with human drive and our species.
Alas, at WANQOR™ Entertainment and sister publications, we have always wondered how come our closest solar system already has a name, a fancy Latin name no less, as opposed to some serial number for galaxy XZB-2759, and yet for goodness sake, our own solar system does NOT have any kind of name?
Some claim this is the solar system Sol, but it has never been made official anywhere. Imagine if alien beings from another system or galaxy strolled into our corner of the cosmos and asked us: so what is the name of this system? How embarrassing it would be if we admitted we issued names to dozens of star systems, yet did not bother giving a name to ourselves? Wow, talk about dereliction of the Federation-to-be (in a million billion years from now).
So we thought since Alpha Centauri is the most famous and popular of the solar systems in our literature, both science and fiction, we should suggest a few names for our own solar system and use the Latin template since we will of course eventually turn into an evolution of the Roman Empire (no. XXV or LLV?).
And we thought we could call some of the more distant solar systems destinations like Polonius Offendius III, Herodus Flavius V, Damascus Explodus II. Other star systems could be Apollonius Virginus LV, But to no avail we cannot think of a name for our star system. Do we call ourselves Hummus Erectus Primus? That might be too ethnic for some or too gender neutral.
We spent weeks in the wild, in the company of those into astrology and star charting, coal briquets charring around campfires with fireflies, carrot peels and tarot cards reading, yet all we could confab are names like: Monumentus Altus Stupidus, Promixa Alexandrius Morbidius, Agamemnon Exaltus I, Sirius Delta Vega, Altavida Flakovus One, Picadellus Circus Jesticulous, Tanaka Harada Yamada Madidus Nassuss Five, Machu Picchu Altius, and yeah there is more, but we thought we would make this an engaging interactus experientius spacious for all of youths.
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