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[gfish]

Ever wonder what placenames you would use if you were colonizing a planet? I'm not sure I could resist things like Seattle 2 and New New York.

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[caladri.livejournal.com]

Awesomeville
Hilaritown
Placegasmic
Old Geezer Geyser
μYork
Sporksylvania
Bisexualdniestr
Squidtopolis
Truth or Consequences: The Next Generation

[ionan.livejournal.com]

There should definitely be a Neo Tokyo. Or Neo Neo Tokyo, depending on if the original Tokyo had already been destroyed by giant monsters and rebuilt by that point.

[corivax.livejournal.com]

I really liked that Titan AE actually included, upon discovery of a new planet, lines of dialog a lot like

"What should we call it?"
"How about Bob?"
"You can't name a planet Bob!"

And then it cut to a scene set there, with the tagline [Planet Bob] twenty years later or whatever. It always struck me as charming and believably done.

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

Somewhere
Overyonder
Farfaraway
Dontgothere
Fantastastan

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

I'd have "theme continents". Or maybe geographical features. All mountain ranges might be named after operatic composers, for example.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Spaceattle
Future York
New Kalamazoo

Reminds me when I was a kid, and would spend hours drawing maps of imaginary countries. Usually my placenames were nonsense collections of syllables.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I can't think of specific examples, but I'd leave some kind of place-holder socket for people's names. A new planet is going to have new people names, and as the aquarium 'craps up', they'll want to put those names on their towns.

[drakemonger.livejournal.com]

Haldeman named an orbital station New New York in his Worlds series.

[maribou]

Now that you've mentioned it, there'd have to be a Kalamazoo 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Even if I didn't really want one.

Otherwise I'd use genus names.

Actinomma
Felis
Pongo
Oenanthe

etc etc etc