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It’s “hard sci-fi”, so that means no lightspeed travel but also we’ve had cryo sleep since the 90s because obviously that’s so fucking easy to invent.
Also, lots of mixed culture names like Aleksander Ho because your genius prediction of the future is that people will intermarry.
To be fair, cryo sleep does not violate fundamental laws of physics like FTL anything does.
no no no the name will be Ho Skywalker because they'll be named after jobs and fiction
Helios and Luna? You're mixing Greek and Latin nomenclature! My immersion is ruined!
So does English.
Megafying glass? Suffering from cold = superformia? Do you prefer monoceros or Nasacorn?
Yep. It’s Sol, not Helios.
What if they were wrong about Selene, not Sol
The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.
crunch
Why did you post a picture of a random empty background?
In real life, the sun is called "Sol" and we are in the "Solar system" as in, sol-ar. Others are called star systems, some are named; "Polaris" is usually just called that instead of the "Polaris system" or the like
Helios -> Helios system follows this same logic.
It has been so funny to me reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov as it appears very tropy, but then you realize that those things are tropes because of the books.
Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.
Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.
Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.
My pet peeve one
Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers
Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters
Slaps the superships central computer "This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time."
Or never specify. "That spacestation has massive computing power" "How big?" "Massive."
"This baby makes the NASA computer seems like a V-Tech."
Meanwhile at NASA, they compute simulations on like 2 PlayStation 3s... With a high accuracy.
Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it's an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn't feel all that original, but I can't point to where I would've seen that.
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.
Sun is called Sol.
Originally it was called Jimmy though.
Jimbo > Jimmy > Jim > Big Jim > James Sol > Big Gay Jim > Short Fat Jim > Little Gary > Jimothy > Jimward > Mothy Jim > Jimjim > Little Jim and finally Stankeye Jim
I'm no Astrologer, but I hear we're entering the age of Big Gay Jim.
And moon is called Luna
That's why an orbit around the sun is "solar" and an orbit around the moon is 'lunar"
It seems like earth is just called earth for most spaceflight purposes (e.g. low-earth orbit), although the word for it in some Latin languages comes from "terra"
I think it'd be fun to call earth "Humus". We get words like posthumous, exhume, humility from it, and it's theorized that it may share an origin with the word Homo, from which we get "Human".
So if we called it Earth we'd be Earthlings, if we call it Terra we'd be Terrans, if we called it Tellus we'd be Tellurians, but if we called it Humus we could stay as Humans =D
And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.