Well since various threads in this area have grown and diversified. I have chosen to bring them all together under one roof.
As a rough rundown on the fan consensus stuff read on:
* A large federation seems the most common choice
* The Warp Charts need modifing to keep in line with a large federation. The Chi factor from TOS seems to be coming along with the idea of by-passing matter in subspace and thus quicker travels
* Sectors seem to be going the 20 ly cubed although perhaps some contention on where sector 001 lies with respect to the alpha/beta quadrant border
* The other races? Well not much so far. The RNZ is in hot contention but to fit with the Romulan War its looking like 60-100 lys away from Earth/vicinity.
So where to from here? More discussion!
Definately in the arrangement of the various races in 2/3D.
So this will 'hopefully' become the main post for mapping now. So jump on the bandwagon and i'll see ya soon!
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SIR SIG a Aussie TREK Narrator