On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:28, Rene Herman wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It's good that the second planet in the series, Solaria, also has a > > nice ring to it. > > Solaria wasn't the second planet to be colonized though -- it was in > fact the last (of the 50 spacer worlds). Google isn't helping so I doubt > the second one is mentioned anywhere in the books... > > If the other spacer worlds weren't colonized directly from Earth then > Baley's World, also known as Benbally World and later Comporellon, is > the second one to be colonized from Earth but those obviously suck rock > as videocard names anyways ;-)
Hehe. "What, a Radeon? Naaah, I have a Benbally!" > "Trantor" is where the Aurorans went after Aurora died. I like it... Hmm. We'd have to cram the PCB chock full of chips though :-). > Some more: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spacer_planets > > But yes, Solaria is a good name as well :-) It's also a good followup to Aurora I think. After the dawn the sun is shining brightly... I suppose if the card is called Aurora then the chip could be named Eos? From the wikipedia article: "The largest 'city' on the planet was Eos, the administrative and robotic centre of Aurora where Han Fastolfe and Gladia Solaria lived." Lourens _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
