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Any idea why letters are used instead of numbers?
This is pure speculation on my part, but my theory is that fleets use Greek letters to differentiate them from ships, which use numbers, and planets, which use Roman numerals.
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Cap'n Q
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"