Looking for inspiration for race and nation names.

[Sedmeister]

If you have the time and the inclination, please hit me up with some of your alien and nation names. My NPC empires are looking a bit stale.

Bonus points if you include a description of the portrait, civics, attributes and ship set.

Tia

[Darkaiser]

A lot will depend on the race. Aliens might have a totally different speech pattern than we do. The farther they are from Human, the stranger their names can be. Fungoids might not even speak at all.

If you build a Humanoid warrior race (totally NOT Klingons), then try using warlike or weapon names. You can use names of battles (real or made up), or things like 'Great Courage'.

[sevensided]

get some space stunties up in your game:

Dawi Trade Confederation (Dawi adj)
Dwarf, Dwarves, Dwarven (use the , erm, Dwarf humanoid species portrait)
Subterranean Origin
Thrifty, Unruly, Traditional, Natural Engineers
Materialist, Xenophile, Militarist
Masterful Crafters, Distinguished Admiralty

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

You can use AI services to quickly generate names, such as ChatGPT or its free clones. Example: "generate ten names for the alien undersea race"
1. Aquaphids
2. Seadrifters
3. Oceanites
4. Seaborgians
5. Maritronians
6. Abyssopods
7. Atlantisians
8. Pseudomarines
9. Neptuneans
10. Xenohydras
You see, the bot did not generate random names, but even took into account the marine theme

[Sedmeister]

Originally posted by sevensided:

get some space stunties up in your game:

Dawi Trade Confederation (Dawi adj)
Dwarf, Dwarves, Dwarven (use the , erm, Dwarf humanoid species portrait)
Subterranean Origin
Thrifty, Unruly, Traditional, Natural Engineers
Materialist, Xenophile, Militarist
Masterful Crafters, Distinguished Admiralty

Got one of these already.

[corisai]

I think everyone'd done that but if you're not:
a) A portraits with cute girls (ideally from mod as vanila females are... not so cute).
b) Set to be all-female race.
c) Necrophages.
d) Pleasure Seekers among starting civics. FP or Barbaric Despoilers next.

You just'd made a race of space succubi :)

[Synopse]

https://www.chaoticanwriter.com/resources/star-empire-name-generator/

[steven1mac]

Ooida, xenophobe, militarist, spiritual I think I used a musculoids for it.
Kilrathi, from the Wing commander game Basicaly a big cat mammal.
Succineidae, void dweller merchant trader, is a snail.
Skeksis (Dark Crystal) - avian bird, has Gelflings as the secondary race. It is a slaver race.