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Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?)
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Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:32:00 GMT
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:44:14 GMT, "Tom McDonald"
<radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
> After reading your post again Steve, it seems I ignored it. And I ignored
> Jonathan too. My apologies! Please forgive me.
No biggie. I wasn't clear on my post. I said:
> > > allow some
> > > generally description for the start of the name: "Station", "Planetary
> > > Outpost", "Free Trade Installation".
I meant each neighborhood would have a descriptive/category based on its
own peculiar nature. Not that every site would necessarily have the same
description. Or necessarily have different ones. But I think you all
picked up on that.
> I like your ideas now that I've read them again. And they can both work
> together. Steve, to nitpick here, instead of sub-id tags like "LD-2A" what
> about "LD-A2"? That way we could have a facility nicknamed "Alpha 1" or
> Jonathan's "Alpha 2".
That sounds cool. "Alpha 2" sounds better on the commbox than "2 Alpha".
:)
> BTW, for some reason I think of "Station" to mean something that includes
> civilian traffic and/or population, "Outpost" to be without civilian traffic,
> but "Base" to mean something more substantial than "Station".(1)
> (1) Originally, I had thought of these terms in relation to a planetary body,
> that is, "Stations" were only found in orbit or space, and "Bases" were only
> on planets, but due to the lack of words to fit all the possible kinds of
> installations, other nice short terms weren't to be found, or at least I've
> forgotten them.
I was thinking along the lines of your original thought. It could still
work: "Station Outpost" could be a remote installation in deep space, while
"Base Outpost" would be a remote, planet-side site. Actually, "Base
Outpost" is more of an oxymoron, since an outpost is explicitly not part of
a base.
But "Station" and "Base" probably aren't the best words to use for
identifying location. Base should be a big military thing, Station has a
lot of traffic, probably a mix of civ & mil, and Outpost is somewhere where
not a lot of people go, so there isn't much traffic of any type.
Let's see if I can find some synonyms. Here's a good one: outstation for
outpost.
Others:
Camp
Colony
Base
Post
Depot
Terminal
Waystation
(BTW, www.thesaurus.com is pretty sucky. All the above terms came from
MS-Word's thesaurus. Or my fevered brain.)
How about adding modifiers for location, such as "Surface", "Mobile" (in
space and maneuverable), "Orbiting" (going around a natural body)?
"Outworld" could mean either remote or off-planet.
Surface Base LD-A
Mobile Outpost LD-B
Orbiting Outstation LD-C
Other modifiers could be used for the purpose of the site. Such as a
observation post, a mining camp, a drydock station, or a trading
settlement.
> A downside of this idea is that over time is that as bigger and bigger
> installations continue to be made or added onto, some facilities could be
> downgraded from "Base" to "Station" (though sub-id's would remain the same).
I'd assume that as installations grew, they'd be upgraded. So a site which
starts out as a Station might grow over time, and become a Base. If a site
doesn't change, it wouldn't be downgraded. Just bypassed by other, more
active, sites.
> What do y'all think about that? Should that terminology be adopted, or are
> there other thoughts, or is this needless nitpicking?
Nitpicking can be fun.
Steve
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| (Edited for cogency!) ---...--- In lugnet.space, Steve Bliss responded: (...) I was thinking along the lines of your original thought. It could still work: "Station Outpost" could be a remote installation in deep space, while "Base Outpost" would be (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) fun. (...) After reading your post again Steve, it seems I ignored it. And I ignored Jonathan too. My apologies! Please forgive me. I like your ideas now that I've read them again. And they can both work together. Steve, to nitpick here, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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