Systems Spec & Suggestions

[Badger]

Ok, did a bit of research on the astronomy stuff since I'm not too knowledgeable in that area myself. Here's how I understand the naming convention:

The whole universe is named Sirius, after one of the closest stars to Earth not in our solar system, orbiting Sol or "The Sun". Humankind fled to Sirius at the start of the time-line of Freelancer (possibly earlier in other games of the same series, I don't know about those).

The house systems have obvious naming conventions but the borderworlds less so. Omicron, Omega, Tau, and Sigma are all letters of the Greek alphabet which in astronomy, are used to denote the stars in a particular constellation. Take the constellation Canis Major (the Greater Dog) for example, the main star of which is Sirius. In this constellation, Sirius is given the name Alpha Canis Majoris, but there is also an Omega Canis Majoris, Omicron Canis Majoris (actually two but let's not confuse things), Sigma and Tau Canis Majoris stars.

Now, in case you're not lost already, here's where the naming conventions get confusing. Some of the stars in that same constellation I didn't list are Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta Canis Majoris. Yep, the same suffixes used on the Omicron systems in-game.

So what has this determined? That edgeworlds pretty much completely use the Greek Alphabet and that Sigma, Omega, Omicron and Tau have been used to name clusters of systems, while Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta have been used as suffixes for individual systems in place of numbers, ie: Omega 5, 15, 41 etc. This also means there are Greek alphabet letters in Sirius' constellation available for new clusters of systems or system suffixes, so I'll list them here:

Epsilon
Eta
Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Nu
Pi
Xi
Zeta
(you might recognise them from NPC comms chatter in-game)

I think one of those would be a pretty good starting point for a new system cluster, keeping it all in-line with the original Freelancer, just how Discovery was intended :0)

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