THE BIG BIG PICTURE
A Do-It-Yourself Map of the Known Universe for Traveller
by metlay, from data published by, and copyrighted by, GDW and DGP.
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Version 1.0
Contains information from:
a. all published Game Designers Workshop books, modules and adventures to date
b. all materials published to date by Digest Group Publications
c. all issues of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society and Challenge
d. all issues of the Traveller's Digest EXCEPT 5, 6, and 7
e. all sector data uploaded to GEnie
Does NOT include information from:
a. the now-excommunicated data that appeared in star charts by Paranoia Press
(Beyond, Vanguard Reaches) and Judges' Guild (Ley Sector, Glimmerdrift
Reaches, Crucis Margin, and Maranantha-Alkahest (now renamed ))
b. sectors of Reavers' Deep and the Old Expanses that appeared in High Passage
and Far Traveller whose officialdom is uncertain
c. The HIWG or other "official but not widely published" sources, INCLUDING
the complete Atlas of the Imperium data that I have from Bart Simpson but
have not determined if I can distribute freely
d. Efforts to crosscheck or verify any of these sources, some of which are
known to be incomplete or inconsistent in places. This should not discourage
the referee or the players; these errors are usually small.
New official data (MegaTraveller Journal issues, HIWG, etc) will be added to
future versions.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Make a grid of squares on a big piece of paper, 18 wide by 11 high.
2. Number the grid as given in the Handy Chart (see Handy Chart, below).
3. Once you've laid out the chart in your own preferred fashion, just write
in the relevant data from the Handy Database (see Handy Database, below).
You have the option of putting in as much or as little data as you wish.
4. Voila! You now know as much about this Swiss-cheese universe our
characters live in as I do. Isn't that exciting?
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*** HANDY CHART ***
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108
109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126
127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144
145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180
181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198
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*** HANDY DATABASE ***
Use as much or as little data for each sector as you wish. I have tried
to be as thorough as possible in listing references, and I expect all you
little munchkins to doublecheck my every word and number, okay?
Here's a key to the listings, with a sample listing to give you a feel for how
to read them:
KEY
The first number is the sector's location on the Handy Chart. Note that the
entirety of known space is represented on the grid, with the exception of a
corridor approximately one sector wide and many, many sectors long stretching
from the coreward border of the Zhodani Consulate halfway to the center of the
Galaxy. Nothing is known of the territory of this corridor yet, other than a
few names of administrative districts and one fully-colonized sector, called
(We anticipate more information on this and other boundaries, in a
promised but not yet scheduled book on frontier explorations from DGP.)
The NAME is given in capital letters, followed by alternate names where known.
The first name listed is in capitals, and is the prevailing name in use in the
Imperium, NOT necessarily that used by the natives of the sector, although for
sectors far removed from the Imperium that is often the default. The codes for
the various languages are:
A - Aslan (Trokh)
B - Bilandin (old high Vilani)
I - Imperial (Galanglic: used for Solomani and Hiver sectors as well)
K - K'Kree
V - Vargr (usually Gvegh)
Z - Zhodani
The next line lists the pertinent data available, followed by the reference
where it may be found and the amount of the sector covered by the reference
listed. If there is no second line, that means nothing at all is known about
the sector except its name(s), a fairly common occurrence due to the inclusion
of wide-ranging sector maps in many of the Classic Traveller Alien Modules.
Names for core-spinward sectors are from the Zhodani Module (4), coreward
sectors are named in the Vargr Module (3) and in the Vilani and Vargr book,
core-trailing sectors are named in the K'kree Module (2), rim-spinward sectors
are named in the Aslan Module (1), and trailing and rim-trailing sectors are
named in the Hiver Module (7). The Solomani Module (6) contains no new data of
this type, largely overlapping with the Hiver and Aslan maps, and the same is
true for the map in the Droyne Module (5).
The data codes are:
SC Star Chart-- usually includes presence of water or asteroid belts, starport
type, allegiance code (may be wrong if map is from Trav Classic), gas giant
and bases if any. Names are only available for High-Population worlds.
UWP Full Universal World Profile listings-- includes, except in very old
references, eight-digit UWP and three-digit addendum, hex locale, star
type, and trade and Zone classifications. Does NOT always have all names.
NM All names are given for all worlds, not just High Population ones.
BR Borders of interstellar states, and Xboat and other main news routes, are
shown graphically.
ALL Comprises all of the above data in a comprehensive listing.
- - --> NOTE: Not all of these classifications are nested. For example, GEnie
listings as raw ASCII are UWP only, and NM only on occasion, but the program
written by Mark Cook can create SC on a subsector basis. The Atlas of the
Imperium is SC only. Several sector listings in Traveller's Digest are BR
only, and so on. Generally subsectors reproduced on their own have ALL data.
Codes for references include:
Sup - Supplement
Adv - Adventure
Dbl - Double Adventure
AM - Alien Module
TTB - The Traveller Book \ These four sources contain a great deal
TTA - The Traveller Adventure | of data about the Spinward Marches: maps
SMC - The Spinward Marches | of trade routes, histories, battles, etc.
MT - MegaTraveller Rules / Such extra detail is unique to the Marches.
AI - Atlas of the Imperium
TAS - Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (includes Challenge)
TD - Traveller's Digest
MTJ - MegaTraveller Journal
GE - GEnie Sector Listings
MTA - MegTraveller Alien Book (e.g. Vilani and Vargr = MTA1)
The codes for data extent are:
:all - Entire sector represented
:A,B - Subsectors A and B represented, per the usual array:
SUBSECTORS IN A SECTOR
A B C D
E F G H
I J K L
M N O P
- - --> NOTE that information on single worlds, no matter how detailed, is
excluded from this listing. We deal in sectors and subsectors ONLY.
SAMPLE
200 ARGENT (G)/Zhdatlqats(Z)/Grrnokhvrrgaeng(V)/Mulikaa(B)
SC UWP (GE:all), SC UWP NM BR (Dbl9:J,K) (Adv14:A,B,E,F)
Sector number 200 on the Handy Chart is called Argent by the Imperium and
other Galanglic-speaking peoples, and its other names are listed. The Star
Chart and UWP listing is obtainable from GEnie's archives, but full data
(note that we could have written "SC UWP NM BR" as simply "ALL") is available
from Double Adventure 9 for subsectors J and K, and from Adventure 14 for
subsectors A, B, E and F.
Easy, right? OK, then, here are the listings:
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[end of part 1. Actual listing data follows in part 2, still being written]