No Man's Sky players name planets after Patrick Stewart
Players are turning planets and star systems in No Man's Sky into memorials for Patrick Stewart, including one beacon reading "Sir Patrick Stewart 1940-2026".
Players in No Man's Sky are naming planets and star systems after Patrick Stewart as in-game memorials, according to Polygon. The tributes have spread across the game's shared universe, where players can register names for the worlds and systems they discover.
A Reddit post asking players to name a planet after Stewart gathered around 1,900 upvotes. One player named a planet "Picard's Rest" and left a communication beacon on it reading "Sir Patrick Stewart 1940-2026". Another named an unexplored system in the Euclid galaxy the "Sir Patrick Stewart Memorial System".
Players have also floated naming worlds after other roles from Stewart's career, including Gurney Halleck, Professor Charles Xavier and Avery Bullock. Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Charles Xavier in the X-Men films and Gurney Halleck in Dune (1984).
Stewart died this week at the age of 86. He also performed for decades with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played King Richard in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
No Man's Sky is developed by Hello Games, and its planets and systems are named by the players who first reach them.
Quick answers
What is the "Picard's Rest" planet in No Man's Sky?
It is a planet named by a player as a memorial to Patrick Stewart, with a communication beacon reading "Sir Patrick Stewart 1940-2026".
What is the Sir Patrick Stewart Memorial System?
An unexplored star system in the Euclid galaxy that a player named after Stewart.
How old was Patrick Stewart when he died?
He died this week at the age of 86.