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Well check the treknet board. Ive been doing some calculations from the Startrek Maps. Which used real data for its time. ie 1960's Deneb works out to be 1488 ly from Sol. And the TOS fed had a known space area of 1500ly radius from the Central Navigation Beacon: cordinates from Sol in Parsecs -23.?/-63.?/0.0
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well, I do my best to cross-pollenate relevant data between the boards I am on. Which, for the record, are: Flare (here) Section 31 (www.section31.com) Csoft (www.csoft.net) Trek BBS (www.trekbbs.com) Trek RPG (www.trekrpg.net)
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"While someone has proposed that the space empires will resemble a bucket full of marbles, a frying pan full of golf balls seems a better analogy."
Bravo. Best analogy I've yet encountered.
By the way, the reason the Federation sphere is so much larger than that of other powers is because it is comprised of several large powers, each doing its own commerce and scientific exploration before/after contact/membership.
A 3d map WOULD be possible. Check out some of 7's maps in Stellar cartography. By use of perspective, an underlying grid, and translucent splined territory markers (each a different color), with only major systems included, such a map is eminently workable. I would suggest that you first get as many XYZ locations from actual astrometry/canon sources as possble, and enter these into a 3d art program. Then rotate the POV until you have a reasonbly attractive and revealing viewpoint. After this, use photoshop to improve detail/add place names on an upper layer, which can be removed.
To me, this sounds like a fun project. Any takers/collaborators?
After we get some consensus on XYZ coordinates (could everyone please check out this site?), and at least get a system which is gun (a small canon), I am going to try to create a perspective map of the nearby systems, Federation etc, (possibly several scales of detail) which parallels the look of Stellar Catrography (love those grids).
There are reams of data on this site. I have to glean it down to essentials.
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