This map was designed without much knowledge of FASA's triangle. Comments welcome. I know it won't be of much use to you guys, but I am looking for comments on the mpa itself. Details to follow.
This map was designed without much knowledge of FASA's triangle. Comments welcome. I know it won't be of much use to you guys, but I am looking for comments on the mpa itself. Details to follow.
Well, I will try and explain it the best that I can.
My series has a heavy DS9 feel. Especially now that I have watched the first season of DS9 I know how a Station game is played out.
Deep Space 16
This is my players homebase. They come back for everything, from restocking to shore leave. It is not in orbit of a planet, near a wormhole, or anything of that nature.
I am seriously contemplating using a Nor class station. Although I would not have quite the same story as DS9.
The Delva Society is allied with the Federation and is considering membership to the Federation. This could be a possible plot arc that I can use at anytime during the series.
The Gammittian Imperium is a warring culture who is skirmishing with the Endaarans and does not agree that the Federation presence in the sector is comforting. They have had one skirmish so far with the crew.
The Endaaran empire is very religious and I am going to integrate the Qenfani in as the Endaarans. Right now the Qenfani are going to waste on my shelf somewhere. Make a few modifications and name change and voila.
Here are the different capital systems:
Endaaran Empire...........Endar
Gammittian Imperium.......Gamit
Delva Society.............T'ana
The Defensive outposts around Gamit, are very large and imposing starbases armed to the teeth.
I like the layout. Don't know who some of those guys are. Any hints for thoughs of us who might want to have our players encounter these races. Ya know details man!
"Target all your firepower on the nearest Federation starship!" Yoda, Episode II
I don't have everything made up yet! I am a fly by the seat of the pants Narrator for these races. Not sure why, have not found inspiration yet. So I was going to play them by ear and see where my mind takes me. In the pilot episode they encounter the Gammittians. As soon as they get back to the station they will encounter Delvans, since they run half the station. Endaarans will be a later arc of two-three episodes.
I will post plot summaries and other things. Give me time!
Sweet, Lt. Cmdr ... really sweet.
What software package did you use to create the map with? I ask as I'm really keen to do something similar for my USS Dauntless campaign.
I actually used a combination of Paint Shop Pro 7 and Adobe Photoshop 7. I created the circles and triangles with PSP7 and the rest of it was done in Photoshop.
Ah...someone else using the Delvians. I grabbed them, and a bunch of the minor races from Farscape for our campaign as well; ported over nicely from the Farscape RPG into CODA.
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill
Um no....They are a homebrew race. I have never watched Farscape.Originally posted by qerlin
Ah...someone else using the Delvians. I grabbed them, and a bunch of the minor races from Farscape for our campaign as well; ported over nicely from the Farscape RPG into CODA.
I've never tried using photoshop for map-making myself, but I've found CorelDRAW pretty useful. I usually draw the map and the salient points in Corel, then export it to Paintshop to label the locations. It's worked well for me, but that may just be because I'm used to Corel. I have no idea how it compares to other similar software. That said, I much prefer Photoshop to Corel Photo Paint, so go figure.
Are you planning on adding more detail to this map Matt?
Dunno yet Captain. I think that the map will grow and change with each episode of my campaign....need a starbase here or there.
Yeah, well. . . in my graphic design classes, we avoid anything with the word COREL . The industry standard for vector drawing is either Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. Freehand is quite easy to use and very cheap ($99 to $149) for a professional level graphics program.Originally posted by Capt Daniel Hunter
I've never tried using photoshop for map-making myself, but I've found CorelDRAW pretty useful. I usually draw the map and the salient points in Corel, then export it to Paintshop to label the locations. It's worked well for me, but that may just be because I'm used to Corel. I have no idea how it compares to other similar software. That said, I much prefer Photoshop to Corel Photo Paint, so go figure.
In fact, I'm using it right now to design the deck plans of a freigher for one of my next STRPG adventures. . . plus I'm also designing a logo for the local gaming club.
As for Adobe Illustrator, I believe its about the same price as Freehand. Illustrator was the program used to generate the commercial Galaxy-class deck plans as well as a number of the graphics on STTNG and after. . . . I find Freehand easier to use and the number of file format outputs are about the same as Illustrator.
The advantage of vector-based drawing programs, of course, is that you can scale your work up or down with no loss of resolution. (So, if you need to blow up one of your map sections, you don't have to redraw anything you've already done just to avoid the "jaggies.")
I have no idea what the scale is yet. I am not sure that I really need to either. Eventually through enough travels from one system to the other, it would map itself out. :P I guess I will work on that when I do it in Freehand.