From 9ccf951473e21a8b90c25161156fa09a9b227a7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: skylar <me@casper>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:24:37 -0800
Subject: Orrery 0.1.0: the galaxy, flight, cities, inventory and saves

Grows the derelict crawler into the whole game, and gets it ready to
publish.

- A galaxy of star systems joined by lanes, split between four peoples'
  territories, with a star map and a system map. Systems are modelled
  with Kepler orbits, moons inside their Hill spheres, belts past the
  frost line and stations at Lagrange points.
- Flight around one place at a time: arcade flight with a throttle
  fallback where held keys can't be detected, mining rocks for ore,
  landing, docking at stations, and boarding wrecks that come and go by
  the calendar.
- Your ship to walk about, and capital cities to land at: generated
  plans with walls, quarters and streets, building interiors, shops,
  taverns, scholars and armourers.
- Fighting with a weapon and a gun ready, six damage types and how each
  monster takes them, and armour that guards, wears and can be mended.
- Everything you own has a weight: a vim-keyed inventory, a pack and the
  ship's lockers, and trade in ore, salvage, arms and fuel.
- Characters with a people and a ship of their own, saved as versioned
  JSON on every scene change and on quit, with a character sheet, a
  saves list and a pause menu wherever you are.
- `orrery weapons`, `armour`, `galaxy`, `system` and `town` print the
  generators' output without the TUI.
- Release: README install steps for macOS and Linux, a Makefile whose
  install also works with macOS's install, an MIT licence, and Cargo
  metadata with rust-version 1.88.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/names/mod.rs | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/names/mod.rs')

diff --git a/src/names/mod.rs b/src/names/mod.rs
index 719455f..9b5d9a6 100644
--- a/src/names/mod.rs
+++ b/src/names/mod.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ use std::fmt::Write as _;
 
 use rand::RngExt;
 use rand::seq::IndexedRandom;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 use crate::seed::Rng;
 
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum Culture {
     Qaari,
     Cant,
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@ impl Culture {
         self.expand(pick(self.phonology().places, rng), rng)
     }
 
-    fn expand(self, template: &str, rng: &mut Rng) -> String {
+    pub(crate) fn expand(self, template: &str, rng: &mut Rng) -> String {
         let mut out = String::new();
         let mut rest = template;
         while let Some(open) = rest.find('{') {
@@ -217,6 +219,13 @@ impl Culture {
     }
 }
 
+/// The phrase with "a" or "an" in front, by its first letter: "an ice
+/// world", "a desert world".
+pub fn a(phrase: &str) -> String {
+    let article = if phrase.starts_with(['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']) { "an" } else { "a" };
+    format!("{article} {phrase}")
+}
+
 pub(crate) fn pick(list: &'static [&'static str], rng: &mut Rng) -> &'static str {
     list.choose(rng).expect("name lists are never empty")
 }
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