Rebecca Ashling
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Why does Tirane have the name that it does? What is its etymology? Because I'm fairly certain that the first garden world found by humanity wouldn't be named after the capital of Albania.
Tirane: Origin Of Name?
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Why not?
Could be by the time folks got there Albania with its shift to a green, eco-friendly government and vast restored forests are what people think of when the come to a Garden world. Or maybe they were descended from Albanians. Or here is a really crazy one, maybe they didn't know that it was the capital of Albania and just thought it sounded cool and looked good on the star charts.
I'd go with this. In the US it seems that nearly 90% of place names are corruptions of a name or phrase from a different language. This is sometimes seen in multiple levels of corruption. For instance many place names in western New York and Pennsylvania started as Seneca or Cayuga or Mohawk but were originally described by Delaware or Mohigans to Dutch and French traders before being put in their final word form when the English took over.
I'd bet that the French version of Tirane is pronounced far closer the Latin and may even be spelled differently.
Benjamin
Rebecca Ashling
SOC-4
I suppose Tirane could be a corruption of Terre-Neuve ("New Land", also "Newfoundland") but as so many people in the setting are literate in French, why would they not spell it correctly or provide a more accurate translation in their own tongue?
Rebecca Ashling
SOC-4
Thank you!
According to notes on The Game on the 2300AD CD-ROM, France was played by John Harshman.
sayatmenace
SOC-11
I thought it had to do with the 'Alpha Centauri War' (forget if that's the exact nomenclature; the ESA-Argentine squabble over the garden world in the system, IIRC). The war was ended and extra-solar settlement rights were established by treaty(ies) signed in the capital of (neutral) Albania; the planet at the heart of the dispute was (re)named accordingly -- nice and neutral? Is that even close? My books are all packed away, unfortunately.
Rebecca Ashling
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Um, it was Australia, not Albania, that hosted the conference on extrasolar colonisation, hence the Melbourne Accords.
Nathan Brazil
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Yes, the Melbourne Accords set colonization standards. However, the year is 2119 when the Accords are first signed. They predate the invention of stutterwarp. Stutterwarp is invented in 2146 and the Alpha Centauri War takes place 2149–2154.
(Mongoose 2300AD pp. 6-7)
The Melbourne Accords did not carry too much teeth as it only applied to your nation, if your nation signed.
Is the history of these events different in 2320 or the GDW publications?
(Mongoose 2300AD pp. 6-7)
The Melbourne Accords did not carry too much teeth as it only applied to your nation, if your nation signed.
Is the history of these events different in 2320 or the GDW publications?
Dates are a little different, but what you say will still hold on.
For GDW2300 timeline:
I've always imagined (without looking at them 
) that the Melbourne Accords laid ground rules for the claims and colonizations that happened afterward, and possibly even created the a bureaucracy and courts to examine, maintain and adjudicate those claims.
Not that the system created was bulletproof :devil:
) that the Melbourne Accords laid ground rules for the claims and colonizations that happened afterward, and possibly even created the a bureaucracy and courts to examine, maintain and adjudicate those claims.Not that the system created was bulletproof :devil:
I've always imagined (without looking at them
MgT 2300AD said:
So really nothing about extra-solar colonization, except by extrapolation from "other worlds", because this was before working stutterwarps were built.
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