It's the little things

[Maize]

Of course, when you're doing an exploration run, you have to make your own fun, to some extent.
Imagine my joy when, during the long haul back down toward the bubble to sell my data and get some much-needed human contact, I stumbled across a system that had been entirely discovered (but not mapped) by Commander Fikus. The opportunity to map those planets and forever have them come up as having been discovered by Commander Fikus, mapped by Commander Epiphyte was irresistible. What a fun thing to leave behind for someone to maybe stumble across (or maybe not).
(For those at a loss here, a ficus is a genus of plant, and an epiphyte is an organism which grows on a plant for structure but which isn't parasitic, broadly. Many ficus are themselves epiphytes.)
Unfortunately, I only got a few planets in before I decided to double-check that fikus was an alternate spelling of ficus from another language. It is -- Swedish in particular. However, it turns out in Swedish it's also strongly pejorative slang for gay men. So what I was picturing as an amazing accidental botanical duo was probably just me and some random homophobe.
The universe is vast, and vast in its ability to disappoint. sigh

 

[Eahlstan]

So you found one language where this is a slang you consider bad and immediately you assumed that this has to be the only valid interpretation.
Congratulations on disappointing yourself.

https://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/fikus
https://glosbe.com/hr/en/fikus

 

[Maize]

A few thousand LY out, page loads get too slow to look past the first page of Google results.

 

[Caramel Clown]

You know it is way more likely that's just some random word chosen for a commander name? Following methodology majority of players come up with names in multiplayer games - just make something up. No reason to throw those kind of assumptions, and especially being disappointed somehow. That's just weird.

 

[schlowi123]

… what a great idea!
And regarding names, Caramel Clown is probably right. That's at least how I arrived at my name.

 

[Andromeda456]

I don't think it's that weird of an assumption to make, has no one ever played any multiplayer game in the last 15 years? Caring about it is another thing, but I thought it's a funny story nonetheless.

 

[HAMM3R]

'Fikus' is also the name of an office chair model by a Polish furniture manufacturer, Nowy Styl. Maybe said commander had/has this particular chair and took his name from it. Possibilities are endless.

 

[Rooster Podunk]

I hope the Edna-Earl doesn't ruffle the OP's feathers.

 

[marx]

Fikus is also a Polish family name apparently. Looky here.
Personally, I'd find that a player would be more likely to use that as their Commander name than to use a single pejorative slang word instead. But hey, who knows... well, the player in question does, so you could even ask them.

 

[fu9ar]

I usually put my name on only a few things because I love to see systems where multiple other commanders have tagged bodies. Even alone out in the black, we are together.