Xenoarchaeological Space Mission to Planet Miner
Saving it from getting sucked into a black hole, i decided to better post the map here as finished
You can find the WIP-thread --> here
It was my first attempt at space-mapping, inspired by Ilanthar's wonderful "Aarklash in space" map. It was a lot of fun and in the process i not only learned a lot of new stuff about "space" and the wide genre of sci-fi but also about the good old gimp. I tried to give it a bit of an "retro-sci-fi" touch... not sure if it was successful...
The map is actually made of four maps each depicting different "zoom levels".
- The background depicts the "Porocheck Star-Cluster" and two sectors the crew of the I.S.S. Ibn Khaldoun had to pass on their way to planet miner, starting from the hyperspace jump-knot at the Bakhtin-Outpost.
- Second is the planetary System of the Star Boas in the Malinowski Sector.
- Third is the Planet Miner itself
- Fourth is the planetary surface, where a vanguard mission under Ernst Warburg, leaving the Sun System two years before, established a base camp and started to dig...
Some lore i already posted in the WIP thread
The archeological mission in the Boas System is led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Bohrenheimer. As a young assistant he was a member of the legendary "Laika Mission" under Major Porocheck, who accomplished the first successful space-jump and thereby opened up a new chapter in history. It seems that Bohrenheimer brought something mysterious back from that mission and his further research urged him to go back to the Malinowski Sector.
But the quirky Prof. Bohrenheimer had some trouble raising funds for his new mission, and had to accept the funding of the IASA (Independent Association for Space Archaeology), a somewhat dubious organization full of "hobby archaeologists" and conspiracy nuts. Nonetheless he's sure under Miner's Sand he'll find something of enormous importance for the whole universe...
Cheers,
Abu Lafia
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