Stapled Peacock Flesh - pls rename this planet

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I kid you not, there is a planet called "Stapled Peacock Flesh" in the Calhuacan system (it has two space stations orbiting it, and it's an important system for Arissa Lavigney-Duval).

It's blatantly obvious that some Kickstarter backer was trying to see how far they could push the boundaries of taste & Frontier's moderation process. Not only does it totally break immersion (absolutely no-one in their right mind would name a real planet that), but it's fairly unpleasant in it's own right, and quite possibly was intended to have a rather different reading. I'm not the first person to complain about this issue:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=153104&p=2375012&viewfull=1#post2375012

Naming conventions at the moment are controlled by agreements between countries and scientific bodies so that when stars and exo-planets are named they are given reasonable names, once non-scientists and others get out and start finding and naming planets and stars that's bound to change. Some examples of silly names have already been brought up, ordinary people sometimes do silly things just to relieve the boredom. There's in Indonesia (I doubt if that will get through the filters but oh well you get the idea), Bell End in England, Brown Willy in Cornwall, Port Circumcision in Antarctica, Happy Smashed in Buffalo Jump in the Rocky Mountains, Rectum in the Netherlands, Scratch My Rock in Cook islands (another one for the filter I am guessing), the list goes on. Not to have some silly names on celestial bodies would be immersion breaking because it would mean the entire universe is populated by robots with no sense of humour or vestige of humanity about them.

It's not immersion breaking, in fact i 's the exact opposite, it gives us the sense that the galaxy is populated by humans with all their foibles, quirks and tendencies to give amusing names to funny looking objects, obscene names to popular tourist attractions, and stupid names to towns, rivers and villages just because they can!
 
"No-one in their right mind would name a boat Boaty McBoatface!" Except they will because they can. If I had a time machine, I would go to the year 3306 to get a planet named 'Stapled Peacock Flesh' or rename a station, the station's planet and the star that planet is orbiting 'Pepper'. Your intuition doesn't override natural human behaviour. Not to mention a backer probably paid good money to have that planet named, and they can't just waste that money because some rando wanted their immhurseon!. Now I'm going to go hunting for things with silly names because I'm not an immature river-flooder who wants everything to be named with boring codes. And no, you're not getting a lack of responses, you're getting a lack of responses agreeing to you.
 
Hmm, this thread has been dead for more than three years, it's getting rather smelly I thinks...

Also, given that, I don't really think the OP nor anyone else in this thread is really bothered about the lack of responses...
 
Well, all game birds need to be hung for a while before thay are palatable...

As for the planet name rankling the OP - hilarious, perhaps he was a Vegan?
 
The namer of "Stapled Peacock Flesh" gave FDev at least £750 during the Kickstarter for the privilege of naming that planet. It passed the filter back then, so was not considered offensive or inappropriate. Is the OP (or, since the thread is a serious necro, anyone who agrees with the OP) prepared to refund that person their money?

As for a lore explanation for such a name: perhaps the planet was having trouble with immigration - too many new colonists. So they deliberately renamed their planet to something disgusting, in order to try to stem the flow.

And for those who wish to refer to the planet in their own blogs, journals etc but can't bring themselves to type the name: simply type "SPF" instead. I'm sure it's what many of the planet's inhabitants do.
 
Captian: We are approaching the planet Stapled Peacock Flesh and we are looking for a passenger named Mike. Last name Rotch. Has any one seen Mike Rotch?
outrageous i shall start a change.org petition immediately, i am so offended because i identify as a kettle.

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