Talk:Story (To the Heavens Supplement)

"...the first Heavens Ship was sent off, captained by Gerald Tzing D'Flor..."

"Gerald Tzing D'Flor"? Were this guy's parents british, chinese, and african? Very strange name, and I don't think "D'Flor" is a human name at all.

Is it OK to change it, our did some thought go into it? -- Hadman 11 February 2012

It's friggin' Dungeons and Dragons. The names are supposed to be retarded. Also, what, dude can't be multicultural? HEY, BLACKIE! STAY AWAY FROM THE ASIAN AND BRITISH CHILDREN! Also, where are you getting British? Gerald is German. -- Jota 08:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not trying to be hostile here. This isn't dungeons and dragons, it is sci-fi, and I prefer details in sci-fi to be founded in realistic speculation. I'm not sure I understand your asian/british children comment. All I was saying is that his name seems to come from three different languages, and I don't see how that would happen.

But whatever. It's 2460, I guess, so names could be totally different. I wanted to tweak the name, but thought I'd make sure no one had a problem with it before I edited someone else's thing. You seem to have an issue with it so I'll just forget about it.

-- Hadman 18:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Given the story behind the name (planet Earth has been united into a world-wide organization known as the U.N.C.S.) The name seems perfectly reasonable. If the majority of humans all have joined together it would be expected that people would attempt the retain their heritage by naming children based on ancestry. If marriage/sexual relationships between the countries is as common as I assume it would be, my guess is tons of people would have several names to honor every branch of the child's family tree. 3 or 4 cultural names is probably the most expected thing, especially among military families (which is how I assume GTD was raised), who would travel a lot. --Badger 22:44, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

That's totally reasonable. I can get behind that. --Hadman 05:02, 13 February 2010 (UTC)