Wondering on Star wars star map data

pathfinder · #1 April 26th, 2001, 12:31 AM

and B5 star map data. anybody know if/where some may be? I may try my hand at making one...or both..

Darwin · #2 April 26th, 2001, 01:02 AM

Star Wars map is commmonly avalible, but is not very detailed. The positions of Inhabited Planets are ploted and areas outlined for various areas, but actually information on Stars and systems and planets is either hard to come by or non existant.

Bab5 Map, is just our real world, (I'm working on this.) But some of the locations of colonies and alien races are a bit flaky. JMS kicks ***, but he didn't seem to care for total accuracy.

pathfinder · #3 April 26th, 2001, 01:07 AM

ah, Ok. I have d'l most of the SW and ST shipsets, so I was a thinkin' .... plus having the EA and Narn....plus I have partials on AOD/AOL....

Sabre21 · #4 April 26th, 2001, 02:47 AM

As for ST, there are various sources that depict the layout of the Star Trek galaxy. I am making a map based off of the old federation and Empire board game, but adding in some of the later races found in STNG and DS9.

Sabre21

Admiral Grover · #5 April 26th, 2001, 07:17 PM

There is an OK map for the Star Wars Galaxy located in the New Jedi Order books...may not be great, but it is a starting point.

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Atrocities · #6 April 26th, 2001, 10:08 PM

If your into star wars maps, buy a game called Rebellion. It has 200 planet names and 20 star system names. The game itself is simular in ways to SEIV, but has 3d battles.

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Str8_Gain · #7 April 27th, 2001, 12:23 AM

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Originally posted by Darwin:
Bab5 Map, is just our real world, (I'm working on this.) But some of the locations of colonies and alien races are a bit flaky. JMS kicks ***, but he didn't seem to care for total accuracy.

Are you working off the map in The Babylon Project, by any chance? I have a VRML representation of most of it, but all it gives are the EA colonies, plus some surrounding Centauri, Narn, Minbari, and League systems.

It'd have to be translated somehow from its 3D representation into a flat 2D one (project it into the x-y plane, I guess), but I don't know how you'd do it without the warp point lines becoming a rat's nest.

capnq · #8 April 27th, 2001, 02:39 AM

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If your into star wars maps, buy a game called Rebellion. It has 200 planet names and 20 star system names. The game itself is simular in ways to SEIV, but has 3d battles.

Caveat: Star Wars Rebellion is real-time, not turn-based like SE4. I enjoyed it more as a SW database than as a strategy game. The animated 3D battles also required the largest swap Cache of any game I've owned, 150M.

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Atrocities · #9 April 27th, 2001, 08:05 AM

150 MEGS! No wonder that thing ran so slow on my old system. Ya, it was a nice game as it had a lot of depth. (Spread sheet style.

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chewy027 · #10 April 27th, 2001, 07:30 PM

even though those battles were slow, they were great to watch unfold. My huge fleets of Star Destroyers attacking the rebel fleets with all their corvettes, frigates, dreadnoughts, etc. were some of the best computer game battles I've ever controlled/seen.

If SE4 had that capability then it would be even more popular than it already is.

along with some more realistic ground combat.