Has anyone ever put any thought into where the different protagonists are
located in space relative to each other? How many worlds each of them own and
what sort of distances each of the "Nations" cover?
Renegade Legion took a lot of trouble to spell out where everyone was and
while I don't necessarily want to go to that level, having some "official"
maps or map descriptions would add some nice feel I think.
comments?
Dan
> Cleyne, Daniel wrote:
> Has anyone ever put any thought into where the different protagonists
Robert Deakin has put together some maps at his Unofficial GZG Campaign
Universe
Page:http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html
Dear Dan,
There is a big campaign going on here in Melbourne at the moment that has some
excellent maps and background that you may find interesting. Try contacting
RDeakin@Colonial.com.au for more details.
Nic
> At 12:13 PM 3/5/98 +1000, you wrote:
> At 12:13 3/5/98, Cleyne, Daniel wrote:
You might see if you could lay hands on a copy of 2300AD. It had a map that
accurately represented the local stellar area, and as I recall, the book
detailed the various 'regions' owned by each national group. Aside from the
effects of different technoligies, methinks it would work well with the FT
background.
Just curious, Jon, how big of a stellar area does Free Cal-Tex control?
Excerpts from FT: 9-Mar-98 Re: Full Thrust Background by Jim 'Jiji'
Foster@kansas
> >Renegade Legion took a lot of trouble to spell out where everyone was
Keep in mind, that's accurate as of... 1967? 1962? The first Gliese star
survey, anyway, and several of the star locations have been shown to be off.
In fact, one star that was "moved" in a later survey broke
the back of one of the Arms... not good, in game terms. ^_-
> and as I recall, the book
It does detail the regions, but with the 7.7 ly FTL travel limit that was
forced by 2300 AD's system. (FTL engines in 2300 accumulated a 'charge' as
they travelled; if you went too far, charge gets released as a, ah, sizeable
amount of radiation, and humans, electronic circuits, etc, etc, died. Bad
juju.) Anyway, the 2300 AD political boundaries won't make sense for FT, I'd
bet, but the starmap is decent otherwise.
> Just curious, Jon, how big of a stellar area does Free Cal-Tex
You mean Low-Cal Tex-Mex? ^_-
> Jim 'Jiji' Foster wrote:
There is a computer program for MS-DOS that shows the stars
in 2300AD and rotates them, located at
http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/smap07.html#nearstar
It is not quite as useful as one could hope.
http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/starmap.html
has links to some GIF images of 3 dimensional starmaps of the local area, plus
many links to other useful sites.
( blatant self-promoting plug )