Renegades (Expeditionary Force, #7)

by Craig Alanson

Skippy had of course wanted to refuel by extracting gas from Uranus, but only because that would give him a solid week of amusement, so I had vetoed that idea. Seriously, why couldn’t the astronomers of the world get together and agree on a new name for that stupid planet? I read somewhere that it is the only planet named from Greek mythology, all the others are named after Roman gods. There must be Roman gods who don’t already have a planet named after them, how about something like ‘Minerva’ or- Ok, whatever, you get my point. Or maybe we could sell naming rights to that planet like sports teams do for their stadiums. I think ‘Chico’s Bail Bonds Planet’ would be a much better name than ‘Your Anus’. “Ok, what is it that should we do on our way home?” “That thing we talked about, Joe,” he prodded me.