Cartographers Stunned After Dozens Of Systems Suddenly Renamed

NEWS | INTERSTELLAR ASSEMBLY | 18.01.2260

Report by Ashley Easterbrook | ⏱︎ 5 minute read

The Interstellar Navigation Agency (INA) has confirmed today that nearly fifty United Nations of Earth (UNE) star systems were unexpectedly renamed overnight, altering nomenclature which has been established since the dawn of human interstellar travel.

The discovery was made by a shipping fleet bound for the Mid-Rim system of Procyon, which catastrophically crashed out of a hyperlane after onboard navigation systems no longer registered the destination.

“I initially assumed the database was corrupted,” INA cartographer Elrax Torgar told Xenonion. “But the stars and planets were still there, only they had been… rebranded.”  

Image: The INA has since published an updated map of the Mid-Rim.

The name changes include landmark systems such as Crypto.com (formerly Sirius), Food 1 (formerly Alpha Centauri) and Build Arc Furnace Here (Covfefe), according to an initial report released by the INA.

UNE officials state the changes were legally executed under its sovereign authority to do “whatever it wanted whenever it wanted," including renaming a primitive homeworld to Floptropica before releasing it as a vassal.

The sudden update has caused chaos with interstellar travel, with all inbound spaceflights to the UNE redirected to Sol, one of the few systems to maintain its original name.

At the time of press, three systems have been renamed following a spelling review.

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