More on sector map problems...

In reply to Alan Huscroft's reply to my earlier posting about problems
with the Trojan Reach map in the archives not agreeing with published
material [ (1979) Re:(1976) Messed up sector map in archives? ] --

>I suspect the data in the archives were early drafts.  It's possible
>that the folks at DGP forgot about the data in Leviathan when they
>were originally working out the Trojan Reach and corrected it later
>when it was published in the Digest.  The base/allegiance/port/giant
>codes would be correct because they were taken from the Atlas of the
>Imperium.  If this is true then the problem should be isolated to
>the 2 subsectors that were published in Leviathan.

Well, that's what I thought at first too.  So I checked some of the other
data for both Trojan Reach and Riftspan Reaches, which I also have in a
Digest.  Riftspan looks ok, _but_ it is probably Second Survey era data,
where the Digest article was circa 1120.  Govenment codes were different,
but that was to change them to the Aslan codes now in use.  Some TLs had
changed, but heck, Regina's has too.  One world was marked as having a
hydro code of 1 which now had one of 0, but library data said that it
had lost its surface water in 1106 or so.  For the Solomani Rim archive,
pop multipliers don't agree with info in the 1108 era Supplement 10.
For instance, Lagash/Sol in the Supplement has a pop of 21 billion,
while in the archive is listed as 50 billion.  Personally, I can live
with that.  However, back to Trojan Reaches.....

I checked some worlds outside the Leviathan area.  The 1120 sector capital
is Gazulin/Gazulin, so I checked that:
*ARCHIVE LISTING*
 [unnamed]  2708 BA6A002-7 A   Lo Ni Wa      301 Im K6V
*Digest #20*
  Gazulin   2708 AA86887-B A   Ri Cp An      213 Dd F3D
Well, the size is right, but atmosphere is denser, it has 40% less water,
200 million people instead of 3, and a higher TL.  The Imperium isn't
that good at terraforming -- and why change the atmosphere from standard?
Still, this might be justifiable.  The problem is that every world that
I looked at was different.  In some cases, massive change might be
understood; the Aslan have been rather thourough in reducing some worlds.

So the problem might just be restricted to Trojan Reach sector.  Still,
I'm a little wary about the sectors I can't check.  I'm sure the
ones that were enterd by hand to update them are pretty safe, but it's
hard to tell with the other ones, especially ones like Vland for which
the pop multiplier and stars part is incomplete.  Perhaps someone with
"Vargr and Vilani" could check that one?  Hopefully it's just the one
sector file that is messed up.  Anyway, if anybody has any ideas or
more info out there, I'm sure many of us would appreciate it!

- - --Steve