This is a continuation of the old thread: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...lky-Way-Galaxy
The galaxy itself is based on: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image...-the-Milky-Way (NASA image)
WIP:
This is a continuation of the old thread: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...lky-Way-Galaxy
The galaxy itself is based on: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image...-the-Milky-Way (NASA image)
WIP:
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I really loved the style of the previous version(s), but I'm digging this one too.
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It's very nice.
Do you have a version zoomed in the Empire territory proper? (The circle that extends out to include the Hive, New Frontier, and Empty Quarter.) I'm having trouble reading the marked colonies.
Sure. Just remember, it's very unfinished.
The systems are from the previous version, the arrangement is different though. I'll probably spread more or less the same system names over a much larger territory.
The basic idea is that the Empire does claim the entire galax, even if it, at this stage, could never enforce it. All the (mostly) blue stuff is how the Empire splits up the Milky Way galaxy. There are a few human nations, which are to the Empire as Taiwan is to the PRC, these aren't in the map yet.
Consider this RAH quote:
"But does Man have any "right" to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it."
The Empire's policy is one of Manifest Destiny.
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Current WIP:
Last edited by bartmoss; 08-14-2011 at 10:59 PM.
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Dude, I would kill for a breakdown of how you ended up with that map, the clean white background and greyscale stars in the front. I am starting, well restarting, my own galaxy map project for my Irimagik setting using the old Alternity RPG rules. I absolutely love what you've done with such a normally cluttered idea.
LOVE IT!