>there, now we just need an equally ridiculous but completely
>unrelated explanation for why there's a planet named "Core" in the
>"Fedora" system.

In the parlance of the twelfth-century Royal Salusian Astrographic Society, the "Core" world of a colonized star system was the first one to be settled, or the one with the most populous settlements after the colony passed its century mark (these were almost always the same). By the twenty-fifth century, it's an archaic usage (and it comes across a little odd in Anglo-Standard translation), but it still persists in many places—in much the same way that nowadays we still call a lot of terrestrial places by names with the suffix "-ia", a convention that goes back to the Romans.

The Corellian equivalent to this term translates into Anglo-Standard as "Prime", and from this one can often make an educated guess as to which civilization first colonized a system, at least before the advent of Earth-human exosettlement. We never developed our own convention, and instead individual colony establishers denoted the system's main settlement with the Salusian convention, the Corellian, some other standard, or made up their own, or didn't use one at all, as the whimsy struck them.

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