Immersive Dynasty Names
The vanilla "last names", being very basic/well-known last names (and predominately of English origin), really broke the immersion for me and prevented me from feeling that it was a true sci-fi, neo-feudal political space opera in the way that the game otherwise tries to get you to feel. It’s just hard to take an intrigue seriously when the guy trying to murder you is named "Charlie Johnson" or something silly like that.
So this adds effectively the same number (1000) of names as in vanilla, completely done from scratch, with a lot of variance in terms of names, styles/linguistic origins, and so on. Some of them are completely made up, some of them are reminiscent of names or words which I modified, others are names that (at most) a hundred or so people in the world have. My criterion in terms of what does/doesn’t get included jumped around a bit.
I would recommend pairing this with my "Condensed Male Names" and "Condensed Female Names"; partly because the current names are also immersion-killers, but also because you need recognizable first names to ‘anchor’ the last names (see: Paul Atreides, Vladimir Harkonnen, etc). Otherwise, two unknowns together can feel like gibberish. Also pairs nicely with the "All Factions are Houses" mod, if you want that Dune feel.
I’ll add more names progressively when I feel like it. Or if someone wants to contribute their own names/name lists, just let me know.
