[Aquatayne]

could sumone gimmie the planet names of the freespace systems. im making a mod for a different game and i got no idea of wat the planets are. iv got sol, i need the rest and im using icefires starchart (thx ice). ne help will be greatly apreciated

[Mefustae]

Usually, they're just reffered to as "Vega IV" or "Vega VII", there's no real names, just classifications like that. If you want to come up with more personalised names for the people that inhabit said planets, just make up something off the top of your head and call it pseudo-canon . Otherwise, there's no real names ouside Sol...

[Aquatayne]

cool i thought it was like sol, different names but that will pass...........

[NGTM-1R]

The only explicit planet names mentioned in FS, off the top of my head, are Ribos IV, Vasuda Prime, and Earth.

[Unknown Target]

That implies that all planets are named numerically, I.E.; Ribos Prime, Ribos II, etc.

[Goober5000]

Additionally: Deneb III is mentioned in FS1, and Cygnus Prime is mentioned in FS2.

[Unknown Target]

All showing that systems in Freespace are labeled by a Roman numerical system.

[Goober5000]

Well actually, FS1 used "Ribos 4" and "Deneb 3".  But I'm pretty sure that Roman numerals are used conventionally.

[Mefustae]

Yes but, keeping in mind the numerical designation system of classification, the question remains; where does one begin counting? The most populated planet? Proximity from the Star outwards or perhaps inwards?

[CP5670]

Outwards I guess. That is how I've seen it everywhere else.

[Aquatayne]

k thx....another thing does ne 1 have ne info on the planets and systems that i can put on the infocards?

this is for a game called freelancer btw

[Mefustae]

Oh! You're doing a Freelancer mod? Are you going to be keeping in Tradelanes, or are you going to go Freeworlds style and have the player legging it between destroyers and such?

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Mefustae
Yes but, keeping in mind the numerical designation system of classification, the question remains; where does one begin counting? The most populated planet? Proximity from the Star outwards or perhaps inwards?

Isn't it obvious?

first planet from Vega sun = Vega I
second planet = Vega II
etc, etc...

[NGTM-1R]

That implies Vasuda Prime is the first planet in its system, which seems somewhat unlikely.

[CP5670]

Maybe the more important, populated planets are given the "Prime" designation. I don't how Cygnus Prime fits in though.

By the way, there is also a Sirius III in one of the multiplayer missions.

[RangerKarl]

Perhaps they give the Prime title exclusively to habitable/home worlds, for instance the planets in our solar system would be Sol 1, Sol 2, Earth/Sol Prime, Sol 4 and so on.

Erk, looks like someone had the same idea too!

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
That implies Vasuda Prime is the first planet in its system, which seems somewhat unlikely.

not really..Isn't it a desert planet? Hot, close to the sun?

but then again, it could allso be that the Prime designation is for pupulated planets, as some people suggested.

[BlueFlames]

Just because it's the first planet from the local star doesn't mean it has to be as lethally close as Mercury is in our solar system.  Vasuda Prime could very well be on a similar orbital path as Earth, but if it's the only planet or one of only a few planets in the system, it could still be the closest to the star.

[aldo_14]

I would imagine naming would depend a lot on who was there at the time... like Vasuda Prime would probably be named by the inhabitants (after all Earth=Terra=Terrans, so it's not exactly a massive step for the Vasudans to be originally named after their planet and system), and possibly the same for Cygnus Prime, etc.  Perhaps it's uninhabited/uninhabitable planets that are given numeric designations, and others can be renamed if and when colonised?

[Aquatayne]

Originally posted by Mefustae
Oh! You're doing a Freelancer mod? Are you going to be keeping in Tradelanes, or are you going to go Freeworlds style and have the player legging it between destroyers and such?

have not really decided yet, maybe both, i.e. tradelanes 2 start with then go to open space


what about Ross 128, wat would their planets be called