MapMaker in the House! :D

[General Velal]

Hi

I will start off and rant by saying here in the fabulous Down Under of Australia where I reside-we do not have this book yet-it is "On Order" a mysterious limbo that can take as long year of waiting-or we can order it by the net and pay many bodgy aussie pesos for it-too many for any book.

So I'm friggin jealous and only know of this book by what you have said and some pics on the net.

I am first a romulan fan then a trek fan

Phantom, It pains me to say this as I recall chatting with you and know your a big fan of the best race

But stated by the writers (I think its moore) someone asked the sizes of the Empires during DS9 in an online Q and A

The Romulan Empire is the smallest-The Klingons were bigger with the peace love and mungbeans Feds the biggest-I had a hard time accepting this. But it works as well. Now I have not seen the book som maybe the sizes are way off-but theres my 2 cents.

Some questions to owners of the book:

Is there a planet called "D'Deridex" in the RSE?

Are the Breen on the Romulan Border?

Is there more information on Romulus or Remus-like a close up on them?

[SIR SIG]

Okay first off, some very positive results.

It appears one of the first things I'll being adding to the StarCharts section of my website (www.nnsw.quik.com.au/sirsig).

Will be a planetary index, which with any luck will be up in a week or so.

[SIR SIG]

Eric R: In time I certainly will be able to have some more 'toned down' maps available.
Also since I was already working on a 'zoomed' in DW map. It shouldn't be to hard to extrapolate from the charts and data.

Dan Stack: As I said in my previous post. First thing I'll do is a index

Phantom: Between you and me we'll get that Tholian Sector licked yet.
And maybe some Z axis for the rommies

Dave: As Sea Tyger said, Alpha Ceti or Ceti Alpha?
As to indexs and DW maps, I'm working on it.
I've messing with Chview a bit as well. Yet IFOS is till pretty darn good.

Greg Smith: A little tweaking with warp and sectors will get you far apart worlds.
And yes the Klingon and Romulan planets named after ships was a little silly.
As to Trill, there is reference to Curzon Dax being a Federation Diplomat/Ambassador during the 2280's.

Sea Tyger: Eminar, I'll have to check when I'm at home with my maps

General Velal: Unfortunately I believe Australia is due Dec/Jan. I'd be ordering it from Amazon or such like I did.
Yes there is a Romulan planet named D'deridex unfortunately.
The Breen are in fact quite a ways from the RNZ.

Thanks

[AslanC]

Is there an overal map of the AQ/BQ?

[SIR SIG]

Aslan: There are 4 gatefold maps that if you are delicate with, you can rip out and stick together.

I'll be laminating mine today.

[Greg Smith]

Originally posted by SIR SIG

As to Trill, there is reference to Curzon Dax being a Federation Diplomat/Ambassador during the 2280's.

Of course!

[Dave]

Originally posted by SIR SIG
I'll be laminating mine today.

You and me both!

For those interested in star mapping software, I came across a freeware app by Winchel Chung. Locks up frequently but worth the download. Makes some beautiful charts...

<a href="http://www.projectrho.com/smapx.html">go here</a>

[SIR SIG]

Unfortunately for them to line up properly, you need about a 1cm gap between the left/right sides

[Cochrane]

Without examining the choices closely, I thought they were in order from lowest rating to highest. I voted the last category, but I meant to give it the highest rating.

[SIR SIG]

Originally posted by Cochrane
Without examining the choices closely, I thought they were in order from lowest rating to highest. I voted the last category, but I meant to give it the highest rating.

hehehe

As to a planetary index, how do people want it layed out?
Do you want an exhaustive list with episode refs?

[Sea Tyger]

Originally posted by SIR SIG
hehehe

As to a planetary index, how do people want it layed out?
Do you want an exhaustive list with episode refs?

I'd have to say that episode refs would make it easier for me to hop over to startrek.com or the Okudachron for details. (Noth that I don't recall most everything from TOS. )

[SIR SIG]

Working on it.

I've logged every star ref upto the late 40 pages.

Should have something on the net within the week.

[Cochrane]

So Sig, is there any particular reason to send you personal messages rather than talk maps on the boards?

I'd like to see descriptions of all the Nebulae and Clusters on the Federation Foldouts. The sectors where they are located may be a good start for sector descriptions. I'd like descriptions of all the Ferengi worlds, and details about the Patriarchy, First Federation, and Tzenkethi, including the systems they control. Details of the sectors with known Starbases may be good to have when a choice must be made between sectors.

[Lowly Uhlan]

I gave it the highest rating.This book, along with the Encyc. have proven to be as valuable for my game's design as the Decipher rulebooks.Whenever I need a stellar or planetary classification I go straight to SC,bypassing the NG.

Visually the book is very impressive.And just enough "flavor " text to make it interesting.And thanks to all involved in it's creation for not having the Ringworld,Riverworld,Kzin,ect. represented like they were in ST Maps.The diagrams of the individual systems and the map of Bajor were outstanding.I'll integrate those into my game also.

My series started in the sector containing Bortas(as said before, named after a ship).Bortas was Gowron's flagship so for gaming purposes it is the homeworld of the house of Gowron.It worked and I love coming up with explanations for stuff like that.

SIR SIG:Have you had a chance to see if the starbase descriptions in SOM give any hint as to whether they correspond with their locations in SC?A Z+/Z- chart would be awesome(maybe part of your index).

[Kirok]

Originally posted by SIR SIG
Aslan: There are 4 gatefold maps that if you are delicate with, you can rip out and stick together.

I'll be laminating mine today.

Any tips on how to do this? It looks like I'll have to remove the back cover to get those fold-outs detached right at the spine. The inner 1/8-1/4 inch of that last foldout seems to be glued to the back cover.

My wife works at a custom framiong shop, so I'll be getting mine mounte don foam-core and laminated!

Wee!


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