Wormhole Name Generator

How the Wormhole Name Generator works

How the wormhole name generator works

A wormhole is a tunnel through spacetime, the Einstein-Rosen bridge of physics, and science fiction uses them as gates between stars. The Catalogue code kind gives the designation a survey would assign, a prefix and coordinates or a serial number. The Named gate kind gives the formal name once a wormhole becomes a trade route: named after its discoverer, its two ends, or its character. The Pilot nickname kind gives the name crews use after a rough transit, the Corkscrew or the Washing Machine.

Wormholes in a setting

Wormholes shape a galaxy's map more than distance does. Whoever controls a gate controls trade, so stations, toll fleets and wars gather around them. A wormhole that is unstable, one-way or slowly closing gives a plot a clock. Naming each end separately, as the Sol-Proxima Bridge does, reminds readers that the two ends may be very far apart in the real sky.

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Name the systems at each end with the star system name generator, the station guarding it with the space station name generator and the drive that makes ordinary jumps with the hyperdrive name generator.

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