I was wondering how to give each random Traveller sector or subsector generated its own “touch” and I remembered the notes on generating names for the Twitter bot @unchartedatlas.
random Traveller sector or subsector
My generator uses a digraph based random generator, an idea going to back to the original Elite. What I’m doing now is randomly generating the list of digraphs to use for each sector or subsector, thus making the generated names more or less similar to each other. If you want to experiment with the name generator on its own, I installed it as a separate web application. Perhaps it can be useful to generate random names in fantasy languages. The Help page shows how to start with lists of digraphs based on the Japanese and Hawaiian language.
Who knows, it might be useful for your orc needs...
The Traveller generator now picks a random subset of English consonants and vowels, including some digraphs, as I said, and I think it works rather well.
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