Wondering on Star wars star map data

[capnq]

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Not sure if that's a safe assumption..they could have made up stars or moved some for convenience, after all.

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One example of that is the old tabletop boardgame _Federation Space_ (Task Force Games, 1981). The designer's notes point out that they deliberately distorted the map, because at the map's scale, the major worlds of the Federation would all be in a single hex, and it would take 50 years at maximum warp to reach the Klingon border.

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Cap'n Q

[Str8_Gain]

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Originally posted by Darwin:
No actually, My statements were based on locations named on the show, statements made by JMS off the show and this website.
http://www.chronology.org/b-five/ic_astronomy.html

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Took a peek at it. I based my VRML representation (hopefully the URL works now) off the Hyperspace Route Map presented in The Babylon Project, the role-playing game based on the B5 universe. It has this map of routes (circa 2250) showing the Earth Alliance and nearby alien space in the sourcebook. As I understand it, they has to run it by JMS (and Warner Brothers) before they could release it. Now whether it's completely canon....,well that's another discussion entirely, given the general muck-up of stuff from the show, the novelizations, the other books, and the RPG.

One thing that I've noticed in the Map was that colony names and actual catalog names don't match up totally. For example, the Alliance's "Vega" colony is actually Ross 248. The Minbari Federation owns the real Vega, and named the colony Sh'lekk'tha. In other words, the "common" names aren't necessarily the same as the "catalog" names.

[Andrés]

http://www.geocities.com/kuatdy/downloads/Map/Map.htm

[Noble713]

The Babylon 5 Wars Rules Compendium is supposed to have a complete map of the major races' territory, and I'd assume it has warp lines as well. I don't have it yet (it's not cheap, and I don't play B5W anymore) so I'm not sure if it's true. The Atlas of the Narn-Centauri War has a complete map of Narn and Centaur territory, along with a few other systems. It doesn't list planets, but you can always make them up.