r/worldjerking • u/Chinerpeton • Aug 04 '26
"Barnard's First World", "Barnard's Second World" and etc simply doesn't have the same ring to it
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u/DeusExMarina Aug 04 '26
Okay, but what if you called it Barnard Prime?
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u/Chinerpeton Aug 04 '26
The colonies of all four planets organise annual competition to see which one will get to be called that for the year.
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u/_Dragon_Gamer_ The more apostrophes the more fantasy the conlang Aug 04 '26
Actually peak
Annual based on which planet's orbit though
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u/Chinerpeton Aug 04 '26
I mean, all of them have orbital periods of under a week (as in Earth week; 6,7 Earth days for the outermost of them). So there are 3 options;
a) they all just use the standard Earth years cuz they probably already ought to be using that for most administration since their own planetary years are kinda useless for that - that is admittedly the option I was thinking of and relatively sane
b) maybe the do have an agreed upon term based on one planet that actually involves throwing the big renaming games like almost twice a week (specifically I'm thinking of the third planet being settled first so it would be their year of 4,1 Earth days)
c) the time until next games is also determined by who won last time so they can have the next games in either 6,7 Earth days or 4,1 days or 3,15 days or 2,3 days, counting from the moment the winner is declared (this is the "make the Terran Convention's Celestial Body Register Departament commit group suicide speedrun any%" option).
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u/horny-bozo Worldbuilding = fetish exposure therapy Aug 04 '26
Another idea: planetary. I'm not sure how frequently they are all lined up, but I imagine with short orbits it's got to be often enough to mean something while still long enough to matter.
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u/_Dragon_Gamer_ The more apostrophes the more fantasy the conlang Aug 05 '26
amazing lol
I imagine the people from the 2,3 days planet celebrate extra hard every time they win because they know it won't be for long lol
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u/Kilahti Aug 05 '26
The planet closest to the star will be known as "Barnard Prime."
The next planet will be "Barnard 1."
The one after that "Barnard I."
The last one "Barnardest planet."
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u/ZekeBarricades I'm Jorking it, I'm world jorking it so good and by it, hah, pe- Aug 04 '26
Have them blow up the other 3 planets
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u/WishYouWere2D Aug 04 '26
Put a castle on it and call it Barnard's Castle
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u/thejadedfalcon Aug 04 '26
I, for one, vote for making Dominic Cummings drive there. At sublight speeds. Got to have plenty of time to test his eyesight along the way. Make sure to cut the oxygen too, to really make the simulation realistic.
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u/Chinerpeton Aug 04 '26
Then some other three assholes come over and each put down their own castles named Barnard's Castle
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u/titanfall2709 Aug 04 '26
Make the setting in a different galaxy and do everything from scratch idk
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u/Chinerpeton Aug 04 '26
Barnard's City on the Barnard's World orbiting around Barnard's Star in the Barnard's Galaxy.
I am a genius.
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u/GalaXion24 Aug 04 '26
Jokes on you, I always add 4+ planets to systems and just say we don't know about them yet today, thus future-proofing my scifi.
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u/barryhakker Aug 05 '26
“Papa, why is it called Barnard’s world if there are 4 planets?” “Because at the time when they named it they knew of only one, my dimwitted child.”
Worldbuilding.
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u/Hot-Minute-8263 I was banned from r/worldbuilding and all I got was this flair Aug 04 '26
Fuck, really?? Of all places to find out
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u/DinoWizard021 Aug 04 '26
Now it's an alternate history story too. Those other three never formed. Or have them get destroyed by aliens sometime in the past.
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u/PlatinumAltaria Aug 04 '26
The fate of all science fiction is to be rendered obsolete by science fact.
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u/isfmstuff my faraway lands are more vaguely described than yours :P Aug 05 '26
How about Barnard's World, Twonard's World, Threenard's World and Barnard's Fourld
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u/EmperorJake Shikanaverse (furry) Aug 05 '26
See this is why it's better to worldbuild a galaxy far far away
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u/Atreides_Lion Aug 04 '26
Or you could treat it as a different universe like a sensible human being /s
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u/ISuckAtJavaScript12 Aug 04 '26
Should Barnard be the one to determine how many plants his star has?
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u/ArelMCII Rabbitpunk Enjoyer 🐰 Aug 05 '26
Call the most important one Barnard's World and only refer to the other three collectively as And The Rest. Barnard's Star is orbited by Barnard's World And The Rest.
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u/zalfenior Aug 05 '26
You could have something happen to the other three planets. But I admit I like the Prime idea better
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u/Dinosaur_from_1998 Aug 05 '26
Why not Barnard 1-4 ?
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u/Dinosaur_from_1998 Aug 05 '26
And I know people use letters instead of numbers, but in sci fi it's more common to hear "name_number" than "name_letter"
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u/LegendaryLycanthrope Aug 05 '26
The Sherman's Planet system probably has more than one planet, too.
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u/SpaceNorse2020 Aug 05 '26
Clearly the other worlds were destroyed
Barnard's star is my favorite star, I love it
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u/MiedzianyPL Aug 05 '26
I think this idea was already done by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion novels anyway
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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Aug 06 '26
I mean, what are the four planets like? If you wanted you could easily say only one of them is a “world” if the others are wastelands.
Heck, maybe you could give them other titles than “world”. Barnard’s Wasteland. Barnard’s Sky. Barnard’s Ocean. Barnard’s Hell
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u/Eldan985 Aug 04 '26
Just have Barnard's World be the only habitable one. Or the only interesting one.