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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] This is the whole problem with them trying to do these type of maps - something I've come to terms with a long time ago. There is TOO little information to create any cohesive map. You can't do a very successful 2D map - it has to be 3D. Everyone ends up having the races SO close together that the idea of Kirk and Picard actually doing any exploring is nullified and that all the Feds are doing is scraping themselves over every inch of near-space. The real, and believable idea would be that these 'governments' can't be displayed with nice thick boarders. There are dots (stars) and like that 'squares' game - when you get a number of close stars, you can fill in the gaps and call it 'your space'. When you get further away from your central area of space you get less and less claimed space between each point. These interstellar areas end up becoming too hard to consistantly patrol and end up becoming neutral territory. Yeah you might have another star-system in a about 2 ly that-away, but this system is a dot that is more or less by itself, until that 'government' can build/establish itself in greater numbers around that area. This creates lots of dots with a 'nucleus' of dots. And these governments are more often than not irregular in shape (well... as much shape as you can get from a group of dots). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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