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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Wiki Project => Topic started by: Mobius on January 12, 2008, 05:20:15 pm

Title: De Nominibus Stellarum
Post by: Mobius on January 12, 2008, 05:20:15 pm

What do you think about the changes I made? Do you know where I can find the meanings of Arabian(Arabic?!?) names? I completely forgot the meaning of Altair and Aldebaran, for example.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellis
Post by: Wanderer on January 13, 2008, 02:32:54 am

Well either using google's def: option or then surprisingly... wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair

I think those additions are ok. They could be useful to campaign makers for example.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellis
Post by: Mobius on January 13, 2008, 06:28:32 am

Ok, thanks...I only hope that the Wiki is reliable, I read many different forms in sites and books.

Should I mention Chinese names? They're not used in FS.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellis
Post by: Shade on January 13, 2008, 10:53:54 am

It's still potentially useful information, so I see no reason to keep them out if you want to add them.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellis
Post by: Mobius on January 13, 2008, 02:06:30 pm

Most canon stars are done. What about un-canon ones?

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellarum
Post by: Mustang19 on January 14, 2008, 08:40:17 am

Thanks for the linguistics lessons, Mobius. There are some non-canon systems in the Wiki, although I think that there's only Talania, Tau Sigma and Tania Australis right now. So it'd be cool with me if you added name information for them too.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellarum
Post by: Mobius on January 18, 2008, 10:32:01 pm

I was refering to all systems, even the ones not necessarily involved with the main FS1 and FS2 campaigns.

Title: Re: De Nominibus Stellarum
Post by: Aardwolf on February 14, 2008, 03:11:28 am

Tau Sigma is from Derelict and is NOT canon.

To elaborate: the name Tau Sigma would imply that it was the (whatever letter Tau is in the Greek alphabet)th brightest star in the constellation Sigma. First, there is no constellation Sigma. Second, if there were, it would be Tau Sigmi.

Also, Mobius---about the latin---it's kind of getting annoying.