The big, Big, BIG picture
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- #2222 Re: the big Big BIG picture by Pauli
Just for grins, I took some time this weekend and drew up a map of the known Universe as known in the Traveller mythos, using sector names scrawled in tiny print on a sheet of graph paper, one sector per square centimeter. It was a big damn map, y'know that? Between the veiled hints we've gotten in the Zhodani, Aslan, Hiver and K'Kree Alien Books, to say nothing of the Vargr map that was recently expanded upon in the DGP Dullboys'n'Doggies thicky, there is a chart of space approximately 18 by 11 sectors in a rough rectangle, spilling off the edges of the famous GDW promo poster showing The Whole Shmear, as it were. Impressive. What's also impressive are the incredible, aggravating HOLES in this map-- I rated each sector on a scale of 0 to 3: 0-- nothing known, other than a sector name (e.g. RimReach or Gmbiir!!k) 1-- Star Map published in the Atlas of the Imperium, no other data out 2-- Sector data available, pre-Imperial (i.e. the GEnie archives) 3-- Current data available (via GDW for Hinterworlds, Spinward; DGP for others) The resulting map is patchy as hell. We have "good" data for the Hinterworlds, courtesy Challenge magazine; the Spinward Marches, courtesy the MT rules; and Massilia, whoops, also courtesy GDW via "Knightfall." We also have DGP maps for Trojan Reach, Riftspan reaches, Reft, Verge (I think), Corridor, and Deneb. The rest of the IMperium relies on the GEnie archives, not including the tiny bits of Lishun and Zarushagar and Windhorn that have been published in various adventures and the Vland sector in the DnD book. Note, though, that while Ealisiyiw in the Aslan Hierate is modern and we at least have an old map for Gvurrdon (the Vargr book), there are FIVE SECTORS in the Imperium and surrounds for which there is no available data at all: Ilelish, Zarushagar, Dark Nebula, Reaver's Deep and Magyar. This is inexcusable! So, open question for you completists and archive raiders out there: anyone know where I can get extant official data for any of the sectors not listed above? And would anyone like to see a schematic view of the BIG BIG picture here in the TML? Thrills! Excitement! Learn to answer burning questions like "What do the Zhodani call the Spinward Marches?" (answer: Tloql) and "How many official names does the Windhorn have?" (answer: at least three-- Galanglic, old Vilani, and Gvegh-Aek) And so on.... Your ramblin' kinda historian kinda guy, metlay | "It is not easy to get a Prophet T8 to | 'shimmer.' One tends to get shimmering [email removed] | *BLAAAAAAT*." [email removed] | zrgynl