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Hi All,
I am a big Banks fan and I would like to run a campaign in the Banks Culture
universe. I can remember that in one of his novels earth is featured and
visited by a Special Circumstances operative.
It is easy to track down information about the ship names and novel reviews
but what about a star map from the culture universe or even a databank of the
aliens?
I am also a follower of Peter Hamilton and would love to find a star map
/
colony outline for his universe. I really like the communist Martian colonists
from earth!
Any thoughts or links would be appreciated.
Regards
> Robin Fitton wrote:
> I am a big Banks fan and I would like to run a campaign in the Banks
The Earth Story (set in 1977) is one of the short stories in the
collection called "State of the Art". As for maps/stars etc, Banks has
always been vague on these things in his novels, the best approach would
be to make stuff up, after all the culture itself is a disparate collection of
orbitals and ships scattered throughout the galaxy as a
whole. As for wargaming individual vessels which could destroy/shut
down/sequest an entire enemy fleet 2500 light years away....not sure
how....
> I am also a follower of Peter Hamilton and would love to find a star
There is a companion to the Nights Dawn "Universe" that has loads of extra
details and info but I'm not so sure if any maps are present. However as the
human space is in a volume of spave 600LY across, and travel times between
worlds can be obtained from the books themselves, creating somekind of star
map should be easier for this background than the culture setting.
Regards,