I'm working on a grand scale adventure for my Traveller group,
and would, among other things, like to give them an Ancient map
of the Spinward Marches with one or two subtle clues included.
Thus I can't just describe the map ("It's a 300.000 year old
starmap with FLASH FLASH FLASH PAY ATTENTION NOW the following
odd features: ..." :-), I have to draw it. Unfortunately I know
very little about astronomy. Wouldn't the individual star
positions have changed during those 300.000 years? Or would the
stellar drift for stars in such a relatively small area as a
sector be the same for them all, thus maintaining the same
relative positions? Might some of the stars have changed type
in so short a while? Could anyone with some real astronomical
knowledge work out how the Spinward Marches looked 300.000
years ago?
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
[email removed]
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"A subsector official pompously states that the
subsector armed forces have four Kinunir class
ships in service, each with enough troop strength
to put down any military operations that threathen
the peace of the Imperium."
---Adventure 1, The Kinunir