About Nuponoparau
Nuponoparau is galaxy 77 of 256 in No Man's Sky, a normal galaxy. The standard odds. The game calls them Imperfect, Improved, Parallel or Rebuilt galaxies, under a cyan hologram. Most of the 256 are normal.
Travellers arrive here from the centre of Thorettac. From the centre of Nuponoparau, the road goes on to Moglaschil.
This atlas holds 354 charted regions and 9 star systems of Nuponoparau, each with its portal address.
Polynesian sounds
Nuponoparau could be read aloud in Tahiti. Like Tahitian, Maori or Hawaiian, it is built only from open syllables, a consonant then a vowel: nu-po-no-pa-ra-u. And it ends on a real Tahitian word, parau, speech, the spoken word.
Polynesian languages use very few consonants, and the generator picked the right ones.
Image: Engraving of 'The Fleet of Otaheite Assembled at Oparee', William Hodges,1777-02-01,Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, sepia toned and resized.