Starmaps of the Known Galaxy
This area will soon have 2 starmaps presented. One will detail the actual physical locations of all of the stars in so-called "Known Space" and the other will show the relationship between these systems as defined by the network of known Long Jump Portals.
Map of the Pulveran System
This map shows a basic planetary layout of the Pulveran System. Obvously, not all of the planets sit in alignment all of the time, but it helps to show them that way. The blue and yellow diamonds indicate stable short jump points within the system. Ships using these points can quickly traverse the immense distances between parts of the solar system, making in-system transit easier while still limiting the number of possible destinations in game terms. The objects nearest the sun are solar power arrays. They generate 40% of the power generated in the system and 75% of the power used within the inner ring. He who controls the converters, controls the system.
The planets and belts are, in order from the sun outwards:
- Tortuero: a barren mining planet
- New Pinarejos: an IO like planet with a thick debris ring favored by pirates
- The Halo belt: Named after the largest asteroid in the belt, the Halo belt is the system center for commerce and population
- Mara: A water world occupied by a large number of undersea colonists. Of its two moons, one is barren and one is covered in jungle
- Achilles: a barren, mars like planet currently undergoing terraforming. Its moon has huge quantities of frozen water ice
- Zeus: the first gas giant in the system, it supports a cloud of moons, many of them inhabited
- The Ice Ring: This ring primarily consists of asteroids composed of frozen gasses such as nitrogen and helium.
- Plasencia and Bejar: gas giants trapped in each other's gravity wells with a system of unstable satellights surrounding them.
Map of the asteroid in and around the Halo sub system
This was originally supposed to contain a map of the various smaller asteroids that form a mini-constellation around the gravity well of the asteroid Halo Prime as well as the significant nearer neighbors to this system. I was planning for Halo to have 26 named asteroids in captured orbits and an additional 40 smaller mapped objects which will be identified only by number (for example: Halo 35). Nearer objects will include 1 other sizeable colony, 32 other named objects, and 60 other charted numbered objects. This proved to be too busy to place on a single map. Instead I settled on 13 named objects, including the Halo colony asteroid and 27 smaller numbered objects, along with 6 debris fields. Each object has a Rel: number or just a :# after it. That number denotes the number of miles relatively up or down from the Halo colony itself that the object sits in space. Up and down are determined by a local standard in relation to the solar system's relative alignment with the sun's gravity field.
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