I was looking through http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Nu ... 00001.html]a list of the first 5000 minor planets, and thought a few had names that were apropos for particular uses in Fenspace...
Anybody like these ideas? Anybody not like these ideas? Anybody have any more (remembering that most Main Belt bodies will be claimed by the people who live in the Main Belt)?
125 Liberatrix
A "homeland" for freed catgirl slaves who don't want to return to Earth or their factions.
342 Endymion
The Senshi's official token outpost in the Belt (but see also 2462)
388 Charybdis
Staging point for the last push in OGJ
476 Hedwig
Potterite communications station
519 Sylvania
A laboratory rock set aside for The Jason (rumors say you can already see "bonsai sakura" on the surface, if you look hard enough)
991 McDonalda
Home of the largest Ninjaburger franchise in Fenspace (established as a "preemptive strike")
1130 Skuld
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Except a marker beacon claiming the entire asteroid as Sora Hasegawa's private property.
1186 Turnera
Sons of Turner home base
1247 Memoria
Monument to those who fell during OGJ, possibly growing into a system-wide memorial park
1405 Sibelius
Filker outpost
1625 The NORC
Resupply and logistics base for the Stingray; hosts a massive computer complex ("NORC" is short for "Naval Ordnance Research Calculator")
1931 Capek
Metropolis Project home base
2090 Mizuho
a Japanese-style high school
(If you have to ask why, you haven't seen the right anime yet)
2138 Swissair
Transportation hub
2244 Tesla
Spark colony (with a drydock for the Sol Bianca, maybe?)
2277 Moreau
a.k.a. Monster Asteroid
2309 Mr. Spock
Trekkie base
2462 Nehalennia
A "Dark Kingdom" Boskonian base, pretending to be a Senshi outpost
2579 Spartacus
Minor and unofficial Artemis base, mainly because OV-103 Discovery keeps visiting it
2700 Baikonur
A gift from Fenspace to the VVS after the sucessful conclusion of OGJ
3325 TARDIS
Whovian home (and sole) base; not very roomy
3869 Norton
Erisian base
4017 Disneya
Nothing yet, but claimed by Disney Corp...
4523 MIT
A satellite campus of the Vesta Institute of Technology
(Edit: Yes, I know it's a different Norton, a different Turner, a different Mr. Spock, a different Hedwig, and so on... although it is the same Disney.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Anybody like these ideas? Anybody not like these ideas? Anybody have any more (remembering that most Main Belt bodies will be claimed by the people who live in the Main Belt)?
125 Liberatrix
A "homeland" for freed catgirl slaves who don't want to return to Earth or their factions.
342 Endymion
The Senshi's official token outpost in the Belt (but see also 2462)
388 Charybdis
Staging point for the last push in OGJ
476 Hedwig
Potterite communications station
519 Sylvania
A laboratory rock set aside for The Jason (rumors say you can already see "bonsai sakura" on the surface, if you look hard enough)
991 McDonalda
Home of the largest Ninjaburger franchise in Fenspace (established as a "preemptive strike")
1130 Skuld
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Except a marker beacon claiming the entire asteroid as Sora Hasegawa's private property.
1186 Turnera
Sons of Turner home base
1247 Memoria
Monument to those who fell during OGJ, possibly growing into a system-wide memorial park
1405 Sibelius
Filker outpost
1625 The NORC
Resupply and logistics base for the Stingray; hosts a massive computer complex ("NORC" is short for "Naval Ordnance Research Calculator")
1931 Capek
Metropolis Project home base
2090 Mizuho
a Japanese-style high school
(If you have to ask why, you haven't seen the right anime yet)
2138 Swissair
Transportation hub
2244 Tesla
Spark colony (with a drydock for the Sol Bianca, maybe?)
2277 Moreau
a.k.a. Monster Asteroid
2309 Mr. Spock
Trekkie base
2462 Nehalennia
A "Dark Kingdom" Boskonian base, pretending to be a Senshi outpost
2579 Spartacus
Minor and unofficial Artemis base, mainly because OV-103 Discovery keeps visiting it
2700 Baikonur
A gift from Fenspace to the VVS after the sucessful conclusion of OGJ
3325 TARDIS
Whovian home (and sole) base; not very roomy
3869 Norton
Erisian base
4017 Disneya
Nothing yet, but claimed by Disney Corp...
4523 MIT
A satellite campus of the Vesta Institute of Technology
(Edit: Yes, I know it's a different Norton, a different Turner, a different Mr. Spock, a different Hedwig, and so on... although it is the same Disney.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012