Hi! I just wanted some outside opinions on the characters names in the sci-fi book I'm writing! : )
The book is about a girl (Cevinen Ej) who lives on a planet called Sana'akta. Ever since she was young, the people on her planet have roughly known the date that their very old sun (Kasars) is going to expand into a red giant and destroy their home. Unfortunately, the technology on Sana'akta is not very advanced. Their civilization has just recently invented space travel, and cannot figure out logistically how to evacuate the entire planet to the outermost planet (Brism - which actually orbits around a small black hole at the edge of the solar system, keeping it satisfactorily far away from Kasars for *most* of the time) safely. The rich have enough money to fund the construction of their own ships, but that isn't true for the lower-classes. As a child, Cevinen Ej submits an idea to the government via a school contest that the rich fund the construction of ships for the poor, and in return they can reserve the right to siphon those ships' power if anything goes wrong with their own. This inadvertently halts technological development, as the rich believe they can build cheap ships and (if anything goes wrong) simply take another.
Years later, the day comes when the star (Kasars) is set to expand, and citizens are given their assigned "end-tickets." Cevinen makes it to her ship, one of those designated for the lower-class, and is surprised to learn that her parents won't be joining her. They have always been conscientous objectors to her idea, knowing that it will likely result in the deaths of many lower-class people who are forced to evacuate via the dangerous ships and risk dying, or stay on-planet and die anyway. Instead, Cevinen's parents have paid their close friends to watch over her and give her instructions on how to find them. Cevinen is extremely distraught, and fails to seek out those people initially. Instead, after the expansion, she roams the ship looking for some paper. She's hysterical and wants to write a goodbye letter to her family as a coping mechanism. Eventually, the pilot of the ship (Amnon Asyci), gives her a piece of paper from his logbook. When she asks for another, Amnon realizes that there is no more paper on the ship. No paper, no books, nothing. He panics - wondering if the other ships thought to take books/knowledge and not *just* people. He contacts the co-pilot of the luxury ship he's tailing (Kvitsa Karlo) who also realizes that they have no books. She radios around, and the two uncover that their entire race is heading to Brism and is going to land having lost 400,000 years worth of advancement and ideas.
Basically - the group of characters land on Brism and having to rebuild their society from nothing while also dealing with the grief of losing their planet and loved ones. As the characters work on starting over (in the midst of both political and existential crises), a massive wormhole appears above Brism. Through this wormhole (or whatever it is) they can see Earth (Maj'ra)! Seeing a planet so obviously occupied and thriving gives the group the motivation they need to achieve their civilization's previous level of advancement, and, maybe, get to Earth themselves. Until, halfway through the book, Earth just... disappears.
What happened to Earth, and how can they go on?
Book title: "Nothing Matters" (pun on matter, in a scientific sense, lol, and also their existential dread)
Main Characters w/pronunciation:
Cevinen Ej (Sev-uh-nun Edge)
Amnon Asyci (Am-non Uh-sigh-see)
Kvitsa Karlo (Kuh-vitsa Karlo)
Dedri Norrjer (Dead-ri Nor-yare)
Imverly Reyvak (Imver-lee Rey-vuhk)
Rook Zaad (how it looks)
Star:
Kasars (Kay-sars)
Planets:
Memia
Ocuryn (Ah-cure-n)
Sana'akta (Sauna - Awk - tuh )
Radus (Ray-dis)
Brism
Black Hole:
Tolmus (toll-muss)
Earth
Maj'ra (Modge-ruh)
Are the names ridiculous?? Is the idea ridiculous?? Lol
The book is about a girl (Cevinen Ej) who lives on a planet called Sana'akta. Ever since she was young, the people on her planet have roughly known the date that their very old sun (Kasars) is going to expand into a red giant and destroy their home. Unfortunately, the technology on Sana'akta is not very advanced. Their civilization has just recently invented space travel, and cannot figure out logistically how to evacuate the entire planet to the outermost planet (Brism - which actually orbits around a small black hole at the edge of the solar system, keeping it satisfactorily far away from Kasars for *most* of the time) safely. The rich have enough money to fund the construction of their own ships, but that isn't true for the lower-classes. As a child, Cevinen Ej submits an idea to the government via a school contest that the rich fund the construction of ships for the poor, and in return they can reserve the right to siphon those ships' power if anything goes wrong with their own. This inadvertently halts technological development, as the rich believe they can build cheap ships and (if anything goes wrong) simply take another.
Years later, the day comes when the star (Kasars) is set to expand, and citizens are given their assigned "end-tickets." Cevinen makes it to her ship, one of those designated for the lower-class, and is surprised to learn that her parents won't be joining her. They have always been conscientous objectors to her idea, knowing that it will likely result in the deaths of many lower-class people who are forced to evacuate via the dangerous ships and risk dying, or stay on-planet and die anyway. Instead, Cevinen's parents have paid their close friends to watch over her and give her instructions on how to find them. Cevinen is extremely distraught, and fails to seek out those people initially. Instead, after the expansion, she roams the ship looking for some paper. She's hysterical and wants to write a goodbye letter to her family as a coping mechanism. Eventually, the pilot of the ship (Amnon Asyci), gives her a piece of paper from his logbook. When she asks for another, Amnon realizes that there is no more paper on the ship. No paper, no books, nothing. He panics - wondering if the other ships thought to take books/knowledge and not *just* people. He contacts the co-pilot of the luxury ship he's tailing (Kvitsa Karlo) who also realizes that they have no books. She radios around, and the two uncover that their entire race is heading to Brism and is going to land having lost 400,000 years worth of advancement and ideas.
Basically - the group of characters land on Brism and having to rebuild their society from nothing while also dealing with the grief of losing their planet and loved ones. As the characters work on starting over (in the midst of both political and existential crises), a massive wormhole appears above Brism. Through this wormhole (or whatever it is) they can see Earth (Maj'ra)! Seeing a planet so obviously occupied and thriving gives the group the motivation they need to achieve their civilization's previous level of advancement, and, maybe, get to Earth themselves. Until, halfway through the book, Earth just... disappears.
What happened to Earth, and how can they go on?
Book title: "Nothing Matters" (pun on matter, in a scientific sense, lol, and also their existential dread)
Main Characters w/pronunciation:
Cevinen Ej (Sev-uh-nun Edge)
Amnon Asyci (Am-non Uh-sigh-see)
Kvitsa Karlo (Kuh-vitsa Karlo)
Dedri Norrjer (Dead-ri Nor-yare)
Imverly Reyvak (Imver-lee Rey-vuhk)
Rook Zaad (how it looks)
Star:
Kasars (Kay-sars)
Planets:
Memia
Ocuryn (Ah-cure-n)
Sana'akta (Sauna - Awk - tuh )
Radus (Ray-dis)
Brism
Black Hole:
Tolmus (toll-muss)
Earth
Maj'ra (Modge-ruh)
Are the names ridiculous?? Is the idea ridiculous?? Lol
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