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We don't even have the old milestone (Bellatrix) finished, but the new one should be organized rather quickly. "Be best prepared" is my motto...

We have several names (many many names) as options. They've all got some meaning:

Canopus: Acted as southern North Star for navigation. In mythology Canopus is said to be the the steersman of the Argo, the ship of the Argonauts. He was also the steersman of king Menelaus' ship who started the Troy War in order to retrieve his stolen Helen.

Capella: "little she goat" in Latin. The star represents Jupiter's goat, Amalthea. Jupiter accidentally broke off one of her horns, which later became the Cornucopia.

Caph: Arabic for "palm".

Castor: Mortal twin of the "Gemini" constellation. Means "beaver" in Latin and Greek.

Castula (Nu Cephei): Part of a multiple star system in the Cepheus constellation.

Cebelrai: Arabic for "shepherd dog"

Celaeno: Harpy, lover of the west wind. Her name means "darkness" as one of the three aspects of a storm. An amazon killed by Heracles was also called Celaeno. Also Poseidon's wife was named Celaeno.

Chara: Meaning "joy" in Greek, this star's system is one of the top candidate for extraterrestrial life. Its distance to our sun is 27,4 light years.

Cheratan: Arabic for "two small rips". 170 light years separates us from that distant star.

Cor Caroli: "Charles' Heart" after Charles I of England who died after the English Civil War 1651.

Cujam: Means "club" in Latin and is in the constellation of Hercules.

Cursa: Arabic for "footstool of the giant". It's a star, which is 90 light years away from Earth and part of the Eridanus constellation.

come on guys... castor sounds so ************

Only 6 votes are cast as of this moment. I would so gladly send out a mail to everybody, especially now that our mailman is working again, but I still need to create new lists, because the old lists were on Datacore and those are not working anymore. And without the email addresses from them, it is not possible to do that.

So.. What's going on with Datacore? We need those email-addresses for our precious fans!!

If you make a release I have a small wish: could you please update the installation documents for all the systems you are currently developing on?

It is really time consuming for me trying to get it running at my home computer. And after work, you know how motivated one is to figure out how to install things...

and yes. you may call me lazy now

About the release: Is there any reason on earth we should make a release soon? I mean, a release would then be like a tag in the svn with the difference that no one will ever suggest to check it out for very obvious reasons (trunk is the most updated).

We have no game at all for the moment, there has only frame work been done. Fabian has created some very nice particle effects and AI ship and Felix has written an in game console and improved the HUD. But that's about it from the outside...


The text above was just for the case someone actually did think about tagging a release

Back to topic: I like Canopus.