In my game (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technomancy.itch.io&#x2F;bussard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technomancy.itch.io&#x2F;bussard</a>) I consulted star maps of nearby regions of the galaxy (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;starmaps&#x2F;mapindex.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;starmaps&#x2F;mapindex.php</a>) and placed systems accurately.<p>However, I felt that using their astronomical names&#x2F;numbers would be unrealistic--if these stars ever ended up being colonized, they would be given colloquial names, so I made up my own names for most of them.