Sci-fi Drug Name Generator

How the Sci-fi Drug / Substance Name Generator works

How the sci-fi drug name generator works

A substance in science fiction has as many names as it has users, and the generator gives the four that matter. The street name is what the dealer calls it, a single plain word, Glass, Hush, Salt, Chalk, Wax, Smoke, Frost, Velvet, Static, Bloom, or a colour and a word, Blue Tallow, Grey Ember, Red Ledger, Black Slate, Pink Rue, Gold Wren, White Glass, Amber Dust, or what it does, Calm, Drift, Shine, Slip, Float, Haze, Rush, Blur, Pale Bliss, Green Glow, or a slow word, Slow Salt, Sweet Smoke, Cold Silk, Deep Fog, Soft Snow, or a maker and a number, Halcyon Nine, Quade Seven, Thorne Twelve, Glass Three, since a street name is short because it is said quickly. The clinical name is what the prescription says, a root and an ending, Veylorin, Cassidrine, Oxyphase, Quadrilene, Halcex, Kestase, Solmide, Threnvex, Merizine, or with a middle syllable, Vantorol, Ashidin, Novanate, Cindirium, Tarsulone, or a prefix, Neothrenex, Polycassate, Isoquadol, Metaveylin, Cryosidmide, or with a dose, Orlaxine 20mg, Lyrenol 5mg, Sidovex 100mg, or a maker, Castellan Andrase, Nakamura Serol, which is a name built the way real pharmaceutical names are built, from a root that means nothing and an ending that sounds like medicine. The military stim is what the quartermaster issues, a numbered stim, Stim-7, Stim-3, or combat and an effect, Combat Focus K, Combat Surge R, Combat Hold M, or a maker and a colour, Kestrel Red, Halcyon Blue, Orvane Grey, or the field, Field Calm, Field Wake, Field Steady, or an effect and a number, Surge-41, Burn-17, Push-88, Sharp Dose 3, or a colour and an effect, Iron Grey, White Clear, Black Rally, or a letter, K-Grip, V-Drive, R-Cold, Solano Stim 4, since a stim is named so it can be shouted. The compound code is what the laboratory wrote before it had a name, Compound 41-R, Compound 17-K, or two letters and a number, KR-9, VT-3, MX-7, or a batch with a place, Batch Meridian 3, Batch Thule 9, Batch Cinder 1, or a sample, Sample V-22, Sample Q-08, or a place and number, Halden-14, Kesh-77, or an agent, Agent K4, Agent X9, or a lot, Lot 700-Q, Lot 315-D, K200, T917, or a maker, Farrow B-2, Voss H-9, which is a name that means the substance has not yet been allowed to have one.

Street name gives the dealer. Clinical name gives the prescription. Military stim gives the quartermaster. Compound code gives the laboratory.

The lists are original. The makers, places and chosen words are the shared cast and worlds of this section, the clinical roots are cut from those worlds and paired with the ordinary syllables real pharmaceutical names use, and the street words, colours, effects, letters and digits are ordinary English; no published fictional drug, franchise substance or real medicine appears in the lists, a match with a film, a game or a real drug would be chance, since every real drug ends in one of a dozen syllables and every street drug is called a colour and a word, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the implant the drug goes with, the sci-fi gadget page; for the corporation that makes it, the megacorp page; for the disease it treats or causes, the sci-fi virus page; for the material it is refined from, the sci-fi material page; and for the gang that sells it, the cyberpunk gang page.

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