diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/PlaceNamesTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/PlaceNamesTests.cs
index ffbd40e58..568f1f28d 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/PlaceNamesTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/PlaceNamesTests.cs
@@ -174,16 +174,21 @@ public sealed class PlaceNamesTests : IDisposable
     [Fact]
     public void AFactionWithoutAListGetsCatalogueDesignations()
     {
-        var terris = Shared.GetAll<Faction>().Single(f => f.ShortName == "Miss Terri's");
-        Assert.Empty(terris.Places);
-        var held = 0;
-        foreach (var galaxy in Galaxies(true, 10))
-            foreach (var zone in galaxy.Zones.Where(z => z.Owner == terris))
-            {
-                Assert.Matches(Designation, zone.Name);
-                held++;
-            }
-        Assert.True(held > 0, "Miss Terri's held no zone in the first ten prelude galaxies");
+        // Its own cache: the list is cleared, which must not reach the galaxies the other tests share.
+        var cache = RestoredHullsTests.OpenCatalog();
+        _own.Add(cache);
+        var terris = cache.GetAll<Faction>().Single(f => f.ShortName == "Miss Terri's");
+        Assert.NotEmpty(terris.Places);
+        var galaxy = Enumerable.Range(1, 20).Select(seed => { try { return Build(cache, true, (uint)seed); } catch (Exception) { return null; } })
+            .First(g => g != null && g.Zones.Any(z => z.Owner == terris));
+        terris.Places = Array.Empty<FactionPlace>();
+
+        var random = new Random(7);
+        galaxy.NamePlaces(ref random);
+
+        var held = galaxy.Zones.Where(z => z.Owner == terris).ToArray();
+        Assert.NotEmpty(held);
+        Assert.All(held, zone => Assert.Matches(Designation, zone.Name));
     }
 
     [Fact]
diff --git a/tools/AetherDb/PlaceNamesCommand.cs b/tools/AetherDb/PlaceNamesCommand.cs
index dd3dcb137..55348de64 100644
--- a/tools/AetherDb/PlaceNamesCommand.cs
+++ b/tools/AetherDb/PlaceNamesCommand.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ using GameCult.Caching;
 // place-names [apply] (aetheria-release, cut faction-curated-place-names; ruling faction-curated-place-names):
 // authors every curated faction's Places from the table below, which is the one source of those names. A faction is
 // identified by its record key, and its ShortName must agree (ghostlight-verse ruling faction-identity-is-record-key).
-// A faction without a row keeps the catalogue designations Galaxy.NamePlaces falls back to (question miss-terris-place-names).
+// A faction without a row keeps the catalogue designations Galaxy.NamePlaces falls back to.
 // Order is meaning: the first name is the faction's capital, and the home zone takes it. Dry run unless passed "apply".
 public static class PlaceNamesCommand
 {
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ public static class PlaceNamesCommand
             "Ishtar Studios | Prime Time | Maxwell Heights | Cloud Nine Live | Channel Aphrodite | Clout | Buzz Market | Ratings Tower | Lagrange Feed | Spotlight | Exclusive | Trending | Broadcast Row | Red Carpet | Season Finale | Sponsored | Headliner | Viral | Golden Hour | Breaking News"),
         new("087df3f89e59beab14f9d41c849b202f", "Megiddo",
             "First Vigil | Earth Stars | Continuity | The Long Silence | Deferred Ground | Unverified | Boundary Watch | Custody | Not Our World | Pleiades Watch | Second Vault | Presumption | Under Orion | Night Watch | Witness | Flatland Edge | Old Sky | Record Keeper | Patience | Revelation Pending"),
+        // Real Australian place names, Indigenous-derived and English, a draft Emily may replace (ruling miss-terris-improvised-places).
+        new("d6466821-6776-4f40-9609-2342debf5c86", "Miss Terri's",
+            "Woolloomooloo | Wagga Wagga | Humpty Doo | Come By Chance | Yackandandah | Nowhere Else | Kurri Kurri | Lightning Ridge | Mooloolaba | Woy Woy | Banana | Coober Pedy | Gundagai | Burpengary | Toowoomba | Kalgoorlie | Bald Hills | Wollongong | Innaloo | Ballarat"),
         new("73d368dd-58a8-4431-b9ba-2d44754d36a1", "NiteLife",
             "Caloris Array | Arete Grid | Malam | Cahaya | Graveyard Shift | Lights On | Bintang | Night Count | Pelita | Uptime Pro | Bulan | Grid Plus | Kilat | Afterglow | Load Balance | Peak Hours | Terang | Version Two | Midnight Blue | Keep On"),
         new("e34d0354f46873df7ec27273fa2abe3d", "Forge",