Ah, progress.
The map has evolved quite a bit since my last posting, and as you can see it’s getting a bit crowded. Naming those systems – currently about 250 – is much more work than one might at first think.
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Oops. Here’s a direct link.
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Although I've been at this for a while now, so I have a good stock of names built up.
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Think Soren means this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bricklovinfreakboy/2921170018/
Thanks for dropping by Soren – Nice map. It looks a lot like the Escape Velocity maps!
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No, I mean the later one – among other things, it’s three times as large. I made it public, so you can kill my second post if you like.
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Oh okay, the link in that 2nd post got killed. Anyway that is a really nice looking map. Have you considered joining the Cartographer's guild at http://www.cartographersguild.com/ ? If you enjoy map-making, that is THE community for you!
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Interesting! I”m not a huge fan of forums, but I may participate semi-anonymously
. I’ve got several old maps that I was working on prior to a drive crash – I should rework and expand them. -
Cool. Is this an alternate Traveller setting?
L.
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Part of the inspiration was certainly Traveller, but in the end it's as much an alternate Traveller setting the same way, oh, Warhammer is an alternate D&D setting. That is to say, they are rather built on the same sources. My main inspiration to start building this setting was that I discovered H. Beam Piper's works, which I never had read before. There's some awesome stuff he wrote and I highly recommend his works. If you look at the map – and know Piper – you will find a lot of his colony names as well as an adherence to the same general naming schemes.
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