Overview

A Duskaran name says where a person comes from. The Stellar Horizon carried some thousands of African settlers in cryogenic stasis, most from East Africa and a minority from West Africa, and a crew of a few hundred from Asia: Chinese officers and engineers, with Filipino ratings. English was the working language between them. Eight hundred Ancestor Cyclesyears later, the names of all these peoples are still in use, worn down by the Creole and joined by new names made of Creole words.

There are no names in the English style. English gave the Creole a few working words (kin, go, dok), but nobody on the ship carried an English name into the new world.