Official: Next 5 Base Names

[Method]

i've selected 23 of our finest base names to be put to poll. here they are:

Markopolis
Twin Peaks
Boobypoopoo
Per-Ah
Hatikva
HomeODrone
Fallout Center
Number 4
Elskerdom
Kensai's Grave
Big Crislers Re-Learning Center
Poly Troll Penal Colony
U.N. Beatable Base
UN Corn Dolly
Og
The Academy of Transcendentalism
Aurora
UN Research Complex
Aurinko
Cyclops
Sesamestrasse
U.N. Scientific Expo

and herc, please don't sue

[Maniac]

The Academy of Transcendentalism

I doubt that large name would fit in.

[Method]

can eliminate "the" if necessary

[Drogue]

Or 'Transcendentalism Academy' if needs be. Or even Transcendence Academy.

[DeathByTheSword]

aurora and xanadu are certain of a spot!

[Maniac]

My second base name proposal which wins. I'll have to send a clone of mine to live there.
Where does Xanadu come from btw?

[Kassiopeia]

Lemme see...

Fallout Centre - good game (I hope it's based on that )

Elskerdom, Aurinko - nice ethnic touches.

Aurora, Xanadu - aesthetically and ethymo-mythologically excellent names.

[Kassiopeia]

Xanadu has several meanings, but the mythologically most known one is that Xanadu is a strange exotic land in Asia where Kubla Khan resided. Xanadu is said to be a perfect paradise.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=14119

Kubla Khan, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first brought Xanadu into focus. The poem dealt with a mythical exotic land where a king called Kubla Khan built a stately pleasure dome close to the sacred river Alph. The poem was written in a stupor as Coleridge was supposed to be an opium addict and is said to be incomplete. However, there has been a lot of recent curiosity about whether there was/is a real Xanadu or not. An interesting quest in this regard is that of William Dalrymple who travelled from Jerusalem to Beijing in search of Xanadu.

Aurora is, not only the name of the princess who slept a hundred years in that Disney film and the Roman goddess of morning, but Latin for 'dawn'.

It is also the scientific name for the phenomenon of solar wind impacting the spots of the magnetic field surrounding Earth above the polar areas creating a beautiful visual effect in the night sky.
Thus, Aurora taking place over the Arctic is called Aurora Borealis, 'Northern Dawn', and the Aurora above the Antarctic are Aurora Australis, 'Southern Dawn'.

Since Chiron is in a star system with a Sol-like star, and is a planet that can support life, it is logical to assume that a similar phenomenon can be observed here as well. This of course depends on the shape of our magnetic field, but since the crust consists of minerals somewhat likely to those of old Earth, and since the solar wind bends the magnetic field with it's pressure, the field's edges will come inside the atmosphere on the polar regions.

[Kassiopeia]

Yeah, and Aurinko is the Finnish word for 'Sun'. How dull when compared to those other two suggestions... Even 'Maailma' (World) would be better, that one at least has a little story to it - 'Maa' is the word for 'Earth' and 'ilma' the word for 'air'...

[Maniac]

1 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
2 A stately pleasure-dome decree:
3 Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
4 Through caverns measureless to man
5 Down to a sunless sea.
6 So twice five miles of fertile ground
7 With walls and towers were girdled round:
8 And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
9 Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
10 And here were forests ancient as the hills,
11 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

12 But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
13 Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
14 A savage place! as holy and enchanted
15 As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
16 By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
17 And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
18 As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
19 A mighty fountain momently was forced:
20 Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
21 Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
22 Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
23 And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
24 It flung up momently the sacred river.
25 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
26 Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
27 Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
28 And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
29 And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
30 Ancestral voices prophesying war!
31 The shadow of the dome of pleasure
32 Floated midway on the waves;
33 Where was heard the mingled measure
34 From the fountain and the caves.
35 It was a miracle of rare device,
36 A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
37 A damsel with a dulcimer
38 In a vision once I saw:
39 It was an Abyssinian maid,
40 And on her dulcimer she played,
41 Singing of Mount Abora.
42 Could I revive within me
43 Her symphony and song,
44 To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
45 That with music loud and long,
46 I would build that dome in air,
47 That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
48 And all who heard should see them there,
49 And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
50 His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
51 Weave a circle round him thrice,
52 And close your eyes with holy dread,
53 For he on honey-dew hath fed,
54 And drunk the milk of Paradise.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Hercules]

Xanadu as you all know was the magnificent palace of Citizen Kane in the film of the same name. However good to see a bit of fine poetry.

I shall now recant the story of Hercules V Cyclops over several threads. That should get me to emperor in no time.

[Hercules]

I need somewhere to live. I am tired of living in this cardboard Box, it makes me tetchy and also it is not a suitable place of residence for aspiring judge.

[Hercules]

If Xanadu is chosen along the way; no better place for the large scale production of high quality black xenorose gold.