Eric, God of discord
Before the mysterious cataclysm that wiped them out, the only sentient inhabitants of the system had named several of the planets, apparently after local deities. It's their naming system I use to describe these worlds.
I've reconstructed the naming as best I can, but as all records, both physical and digital, perished with the people, some exact spellings may be inaccurate.
At the core is a string of rocky worlds. Nearest the sun is tiny, irradiated planet Mary, then mysterious cloud-swathed Vera.
Next is the Homos' own world, temperate blue-green Eamon, with its large rocky satellite, Mona, covered in junk from the Homos' many visits. Finally, there is the angry-looking red planet Martin, where traces of life genetically congruent to that found on Eamon can be seen, indicating common origin.
Outside of Martin's orbit is a slowly accreting ring of debris which we believe to be the remains of a collision event between two or more rocky worlds. There is evidence that over time, this will coalesce into a fifth, larger rocky planet. The Homos named the largest object in this belt after Colin, their ancient god of plenty.
The next object is the most impressive, a huge gaseous world called Jeremy, king of all the Gods in the Homo pantheon. Jeremy, with its huge red spot, a massive storm feature which has lasted millennia, is surrounded by a numerous system of satellites. Of note are the four largest, rocky Camilla and Gertie, violently volcanic Ian, and mysterious, icy Emma, with her deep oceans of warm, liquid water.
Next out is pale, beautiful, Sammie and her rings, the remnant of a collision between satellites. Sammie has a large, atmosphere-shrouded satellite called Tammy as well as many smaller, icy companions.
Further out still are a pair of ice giants formed from liquid and gaseous Nitrogen. Uriah and Noddy are the largest objects this far out.
Beyond their orbit is a massive collection of icy objects of various sizes at the limit of influence of the system's sun. It appears that the Homos had classified and named two of the largest of these bodies at the time of their demise. First named was Peter with its slightly smaller binary twin, Karen.
Later, a slightly larger object was found. I believe the Homos named this after Eric, God of discord, though on this fact there is some disagreement in academic circles.
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