Originally posted by mikhael:
Going out on a limb 'Hard Light' has been used as word for solid projections/holograms. So the Hard Light Array is where the original crew got together to conjure up some creative projections of their own.
Bing!

Well, almost. Correct in that we took the concept of 'Hard Light' being a solid hologram (we first heard about it from Rimmer in Red Dwarf). We thought that was cool and added the Productions on the end.

(When I say 'we' I mean Thunder and I, way back in
The Beginning.

)
And, as for the bit on the Array, that's actually a bit younger than HLP itself - some six months after we opened HLP, I came up with the idea of the Array. I then catalogued all my renders into it and have done so ever since.

The name 'Array' stemmed from me being an AWACS, but fit conveniently in with the idea of a render archive... so, I stuck with it.
