I've finished my first draft of the whole sector , and now I need to deal with things I've neglected, so here is the data posted: https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-whole-beyond-first-draft.html Still to do is to finish subsector and world articles at a minimum. In addtion to those "requi...

2) Make the Tigress a Sphere hull The ships where based on the listing in Classic Traveller so have whatever type they did. The CT Tigress has configuration 5: Sphere? https://i.imgur.com/nVshw5N.png There is no "Standard" configuration in CT: https://i.imgur.com/FnHx5AN.png I figured AnotherDilber...

Are these official, semi-official, or just your suggestions? At least semi official. Cool! I'm assuming you're the Andrew who is the coauthor? Two humble suggestions from my very superficial skimming: 1) Make the Ghalalk match the Elements version (spinal mount sticks out, but I didn't look further...

Are these official, semi-official, or just your suggestions?

I'm not sure why the settlers of the new Weltbund should not have been able to use proper German. It would be Der Weltenbund , it should say Peenemünde , because you don't just drop the umlaut, and Nervenheilanstalt instead of Ner b enheilanstalt. It needs to be Hessen and not Hesse , the latter be...

And a picture of the two subsectors:


If that doesn't work, it's on the blog:

https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/ ... ctors.html

(This is a slightly shorted version of what I spent off to the T5SS list) I'm continuing to work on The Beyond. During the week I tackled Subsectors B and C, Liberty Hall and Die Weltbund to try to build a more reasonable Die Weltbund. This is like a puzzle with half melted pieces, some missing and ...

It is, however, not canonical for the OTU for the very reason that it includes FTL comms. They are one of MWM's great forbidden technologies for the OTU and quite how this chapter made it past the great old ones/inner circle/secret squirrels with it included is a bit of a mystery. Marc breaks his o...

Actually thinking of Pandemonium subsector in Vanguard Reaches - a dozen worlds literally named after Nazi SS divisions. Which was just tasteless even for 1981. Oh, yeah, I see that now. And there is Niebelungen, what do you know. Yeah, that's got to go, though the sector itself isn't as broken as ...

Is that the one with a subsector full of worlds named after SS divisions? If you mean the worlds of Die Weltbund in subsectors B and C of the "in Review" or currently most official version of The Beyond, then not literally named after SS Divisions, but all in German, yes. In some cases, though some...

I could tackle a bunch of sectors, but I would want to see how much information comes out in the next Deepnight release and at least not contradict any of it. The other sectors along the route don't have the serious flaws that The Beyond does. The Vanguard Reaches doesn't look that bad as is, and th...

I've used travellermap's tools for making custom sectors. It's fun. But it takes a bit of work to tweak the metadata to get the results I want, so not a causal undertaking. It is a great tool set, though. Using it now (well, yesterday) to test out my version of The Beyond data.

Well the first responses from the T5SS group doesn't show a lot of enthusiasm for a new version of The Beyond, and I can understand that. But I just can't see using it as is, so no matter what, for IMTU, it needs to be redone. I've gotten through the first pass of the my overarching "historical" ste...

The Beyond is indeed a mess. The preliminary integration of the Paranoia Press version of the sector into the T5SS dataset was done by Don McKinney shortly before he passed away, so much of the context was lost. The most effective way to work to improve it is to join the mailing list at http://wiki...

Ah, yes T4. Lovely idea, that. But execution did leave something to be desired. Vland population 3 was about the point I threw up my hands. In retrospect the artwork by Chris Foss is what I most fondly remember. This process ate my weekend. I've spent more than 20 hours on it, but managed to get thr...

Impressive work. I can see some real potential with this approach, particularly if you can at least partially automate the process - it would allow you to rapidly create some large sandbox regions which would be at least reasonably internally consistent, which has historically been somewhat of a pr...

This is what I get for trying to "fix" The Beyond. A mini White Paper on sector design. To build a plausible model of the political state of the regions Spinward of the Imperial border we need to look at settlement and growth patterns over time and treat the region as a whole. First, we need to buil...

Ah, you’re the guy worried about the fuel processors. I responded to an old comment you made about the lack of processors on the kickstarter page. I think it was on update #16. Go take a look at it. Short version is, the ship is so good, it doesn’t need no stinking fuel processors. I see your point...

[ Geir, do you have any interest in redeveloping it in a way that makes it fit more cohesively with canon? I realize you're already doing that, based on your comments above, but you might be able to get Marc's blessing and make your work official. Travellermap's creator/admin posts here on the forum...

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Fri Feb 07, 2020 12:41 am

It baffles me that The Beyond is somehow "official data" according to Travellermap. It just doesn't fit in with canon at all.

Well, it's "under review".
I found the old Paranoia Press Supplement in a box in the basement. At least the current canon version took out the ringworld.