Posted by: Borealis4x
« on: September 28, 2016, 02:34:05 AM »I keep their official name but also give them their "nickname" in brackets. After all, who want to say they are from Alpha Centari III A
One of my favourite computer games from my younger days was Wing Commander: Privateer, which has many colonies named after appropriate Earth cities, so New Detroit is a grim industrial planet, Oxford is a research world etc. It's a system a fell in love with, and often use for human empires. Makes it easier to remember what each colony is supposed to eb as well, especially if there are multiple colonies in the same system.