Hans:
>Overlook? That's why I wrote that there was a 5/6th chance. And
>the lowest Space TL for a tech 13 world is 12. The lowest for a
>tech 15 world is 15.
Why, so I did. I misread the limits when I read the Tables. I thought
the lower limit was (upper/3), not (upper - 3).
>Well within the World Builders rules too. What is not within
>the rules is *Regina* building TL 15 ships, yet according to
>_Kinunir_ they do! ;-)
Maybe they used imported parts.
<about Ancient starmaps and stellar positions>
I wish I could help, but I can't in any meaningful way. Stellar
velocities vary depending on their orbits about the galactic center.
Barnard's Star is moving fast enough to have crossed several sectors in
300,000 years. Sol is moving about 12Kmps relative to most of our
immediate neighbors, and so would have moved about 4 parsecs in 300,000
years.
Basically, you can (and should) rewrite the sector map any way you
want. Keep in mind that the Ancients probably did NOT use Imperial
mapping conventions, so a map of the "Spinward Marches" would be
slightly unreal. Make the map one of some largely arbitrary area, say
45.341 parsecs by 61.202 parsecs. Avoid Imperial conventions like the
plague - mark each star separately, including "distant companions".
Don't treat all stars in a given parsec hex as the same system. And
don't mark one main world per system, mark as many as are appropriate.
Later...
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