In message #1085, Mark F. Cook asks about subsector names in the Deneb
sector. The discrepancy he describes is one that has been hanging
around for many years.
Supplement 11 (Library Data N-Z) featured a sector map of the Spinward
Marches in which the adjacent subsectors of Deneb were listed in reverse
order to the way they had previously been shown in Supplement 3 (The
Spinward Marches). The Sup.11 map has since appeared in a number of
other places (including the MegaTraveller Players' Handbook). I don't
have a copy of the Spinward Marches Campaign sourcebook - would I be
right in thinking it uses the same map again?
So which is correct, Sup.3 or Sup.11? I believe the answer can be found
in the Atlas of the Imperium. The Atlas doesn't show subsectors, but
it *does* have some important evidence. If you examine Deneb sector
you will see a world named Pretoria (sector location 0406, which puts
it in subsector A) and one named Vincennes (1122, which puts it in
subsector J). It seems like a good bet that these worlds would be
found in the subsectors of the same name. If this is the case then
Sup.3 and GEnie have got it right, and Sup.11 and the SMC book are
in error.
Sorry, Mark, I don't have any info on X-boat routes. Just join the
dots ... your players won't know the difference. :-)
Come to think of it, I doubt that any data on X-boat routes would be
entirely reliable in these troubled times - this week's X-boat route
is next week's Vargr territory!
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