It can be done, but would be more complex than you think. (Destiny)

by BeardFade , Portland, OR, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 15:30 (3339 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

Both of these things would actually be slightly more challenging than you expect.

It's pretty clear that both the Cabal and the Hive have certain linguistic conventions for their names. Consider the wizards. Each of their names begin with Ir. Bungie has created some sense of language and grammar for their different species. Thus, in order to make names that follow closely to convention, you would need to know/program these conventions in.

Next, consider that you could not randomly throw letters together, put an apostrophe in the word and get a Cabal name. Not only do we need to follow the convention that syllables need to connect in (more or less) a consonant-vowel, or vowel-consonant pattern in order to even be speakable, but I think it's pretty obvious that the apostrophe in Cabal names is actually either a 1) a contracted syllable, similar to "e'er" being "ever" in certain hymns, or 2) is intended as a form of glottal stop or 3) acts similar to a dagesh in Hebrew which at times represents a small pause and separation of a doubled letter. I think the final one has some creedance in that most of the names have a doubled vowel (typically "a") separated by the apostrophe.

All of this to say, while it can be done, the most realistic and worthwhile product would still appear to be simple, but could actually be quite complex under the hood.