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Sleeper, just to know it's sci-fi, which stands for "science-fiction".

The Solar System- a civilian sector- contains our planet earth, and the other planets and the asteroid belts.

Great Blood. A Mantis hunting ground full of hives, very dangerous.

Metal 1CA

Where the men go to rock....

Some new sector type for you to name, if you like to.

Industrial Sector
Style: Could imply centres low tech industrial activity with heavy impact on the galactic environment.
Possible Indicators: "Industrial", "Factories", "Scrapyard", "Waste Disposal", "Salvageyard", "Pollution", "Smog", "Dust", "Dust Cloud", "Radiation", "Acid", "Corrosion"
Examples (Custom):
<name>Industrial Zone s-572-u</name>
<name>Cevis Alpha [Acid Hazard!]</name>
<name>The Theta Smog Cloud</name>

Quarantined Sector (original concept by kartoFlane)
Style: Could reference disease and humanitarian crisis and the efforts to contain it.
Possible Indicators: "Quarantine", "Contained", "Aid", "Disease", "Plague", "Medical Emergency", "Health Crisis", "Distress"
Examples (Custom):
<name>Malis 9 [Quarantined]</name>
<name>Contained Plague Zone 27</name>
<name>Health Crisis at 0.218.85</name>

Pirate Home World Sector
Style: Could reference clear total outlaw dominance and illegal activities. Im actually unsure how to differentiate this one clearly from the normal pirate sector. But that's actually not that of a big deal...
Possible Indicators: "Pirate Base", "Gang", "Smuggling" ... well yeah, not many ideas here... specially as this should still name a region in space, not a interior cell in skyrim
Examples (Custom):
<name>Rak'ksaks Gang HQ</name>
<name>The Omicron Smuggler Zone</name>
<name>Pirate Base at 0.071.33</name>

AI Controlled Sectors
Style: Could reference dominance by artificial lifeforms, nano bot clouds, isolation and an unknown threat.
Possible Indicators: "AI", "Nano Cloud", "Entity", "Bot", "Net", "Hack"
Examples (Custom):
<name>The Alpha AI</name>
<name>319-k-PS-Golgons Nano Cloud</name>
<name>Theta 6 [Rouge AI Controlled]</name>

had an idea for AI controlled Sectors or Quarantined Sector...

"Sector 51" (pretty much an FTL Area 51)

For pirate's sector I have so many ideas lol.
Baybar's bandits (A reference to Bazbar's bandits from FE8)
Slug black market
Colyum Nebula (A reference to Colm, a thief from FE8)
Rennayuc Gang Territory (A reference to Rennac, a rogue also from FE8)
The Black Scar
Red Demon Base
Mantis rogue hunting areas

Back again to try my hand at coming up with some names for the new sector types:

Industrial Sector:
<name>The Forge Worlds</name>
<name>Manufactoria 17</name>

Quarantined Sector:
<name>[Outbreak in Progress]</name>
<name>The Festering Zone</name>

Pirate Home World Sector:
<name>The Inmates' Cove</name>
<name>Blackheart's Haven</name>
<name>The Lawless Reach</name>

AI Sector: (Not sure about these ones, but I like the idea of the AI either trying to disguise their presence or falsify the sector data)
<name>[Digital Interference]</name>
<name>S/af)e Z0n[e]</name>
<name>Z0lt4n H0mew0rld5</name> (And similar variations for the eNg1, R0(K, M4nt15, 51ug, etc...)

Anyway, I hope you find some of them useful!

This is all awesome work but one thing that messes with me is when names are too smiliar.
Like, if the name of a pirate is a Mantis name then it sounds like a mantis sector........

How do you know if it isn't a ... Mantis Pirate sector?....