The REAL milky way galaxy map - sol @ centre ;)

mottlee · #1 September 3rd, 2003, 09:15 PM

Geee there went the window format

scroll right

Cirvol · #2 September 3rd, 2003, 09:46 PM

ya, i know

sorry about that...

the big map really messes with the text of Messages... perhaps that should be fixed?

use left justification=D

geoschmo · #3 September 3rd, 2003, 10:23 PM

I fixed it. Shrunk the image and put in a link to the original large size image.

[ September 03, 2003, 21:27: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Arkcon · #4 September 3rd, 2003, 10:56 PM

Ahh... much better.

So anyways, I was once looking for a Sol neighborhood map. My plan was to write a scenario about several Groups from Earth leaving the solar system. They would encounter stars at the correct stellar distances, etc. I even went to some of the web pages Online and decided what to put in which system.

Now I personally ascribe to the theory that earth-like planets are extremely rare. Many people would disagree, but anyway. Most planets would be low mineral gas giants, small ice planets, and deadly tiny rock planets. Remote mining would be big.

Survival would be very difficult. The various Groups should start the game fairly well armed, but open warfare at the start would devastate both of them. The United Nations should claim the homesystem as a neutral race, and demand the expatriate Groups stay out.

At any rate, like I said before, the local neighborhood star map that was posted really doesn't add much to the standard rule set for SE4.

It's cool to play because the author added lots of very interesting odds and ends. But in the end it's just a somewhat sparse quadrant with some funkly distances between some of the systems.

I'm sure some similar parts have been randomly generated at some time by SE4's random quadrant generator.

[ September 03, 2003, 21:58: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Kamog · #5 September 4th, 2003, 06:54 AM

[On the big map] What are all those objects with names like "CD-28�302 -0:0:-14" and so on? Are they stars that don't have names? I thought Alpha Centauri was the closest star but there are several of these objects closer to Sol then Alpha Centauri. What are they?

Xaren Hypr · #6 September 4th, 2003, 07:36 AM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
[On the big map] What are all those objects with names like "CD-28�302 -0:0:-14" and so on? Are they stars that don't have names? I thought Alpha Centauri was the closest star but there are several of these objects closer to Sol then Alpha Centauri. What are they?

IIRC, there are a few very dim red dwarf stars closer to us than Alpha Centauri. They have only been seen/discovered very recently, but are too dim to see without a very powerful telescope...preferably an infrared one.

Just a few bits of info...

oleg · #7 September 5th, 2003, 01:03 AM

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Originally posted by Cirvol:
... hell, 5 or 10 LY can be done in 10 or 20 years with a half decent ion drive - going at .5 c speed is NOT that difficult for todays (or reasonably near term future) tech

so, its kinda exciting - i figure as soon as we get a decent fusion system going, we'll be off to the stars ... unmanned probes first of course... but with fusion engines, heck, there a LOT of stars within grasp

I still stand by my assertion : http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=008169
Traveling at such speed would require a nice-looking, aerodynamic designs. More like WhiteStars than EA destroyers