[ The answer is obvious. The name was chosen by the very astronomers of Earth before the times of the Citizen Federation, on what is also known as the "Giraffe Constellation." A name that ended up adopted for the cluster as a whole.
Then it comes to the Star name: Tonatiuh. The fact the hispanic and latinamerican colonizers found said star and exoplanet at the safest distance away from Terra as almost destiny. It was the reason the first Earth-like planet was, likewise, called 'Aztlán'.
At first, she struggles to believe it. Then takes a longer look at the plaque: Male and female humans compared in size with the object. Two circles and a line between them. A big sphere with nine other spheres, one from which the probe originated from. A bunch of lines hailing from a singular star system. It was a map.
She had no idea what any of that meant, but rapidly connects the dots: Primitive probe, two circles and a line, probe from a third rock from a sun... ]
¡Hijo de la chingada! ¿En serio eres de la Tierra?
[ Which finally led her to process it. ]
How come weren't you hunted down by the Terran Federation? You have a map of where we come from. Last we heard, they hated anything that may give away their position or even culture.
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Then it comes to the Star name: Tonatiuh. The fact the hispanic and latinamerican colonizers found said star and exoplanet at the safest distance away from Terra as almost destiny. It was the reason the first Earth-like planet was, likewise, called 'Aztlán'.
At first, she struggles to believe it. Then takes a longer look at the plaque: Male and female humans compared in size with the object. Two circles and a line between them. A big sphere with nine other spheres, one from which the probe originated from. A bunch of lines hailing from a singular star system. It was a map.
She had no idea what any of that meant, but rapidly connects the dots: Primitive probe, two circles and a line, probe from a third rock from a sun... ]
¡Hijo de la chingada! ¿En serio eres de la Tierra?
[ Which finally led her to process it. ]
How come weren't you hunted down by the Terran Federation? You have a map of where we come from. Last we heard, they hated anything that may give away their position or even culture.