A map of the Known Worlds?

[Nerroth]

Hi.

I got the PDF of A Call to Arms: Noble Armada via DriveThruRPG today; looks interesting so far (though I do need to blow off a few of the mental cobwebs left since the last time I saw a version of the ACtA ruleset...) though there was one thing I was hoping to see which was missing:

Is there an official map anywhere showing the Known Worlds? (And bordering systems of the other powers, like the Kurgans, Vau and others.)

I was hoping there could be something akin to the old jump route maps seen in some of Mongoose's old B5 material.

 

[Anunnaki]

Hello,

You would likely be looking for the Fading Suns "Jumpweb of the Known Worlds" and you can download a copy from here:

http://www.redbrick-limited.com/cms/index.php?categoryid=12&p13_sectionid=4&p13_fileid=43

Kind regards,

James Sutton
Managing Director

 

[Nerroth]

Thank you kindly.

Is there any data on how large an area of space the Known Worlds are spread over, and would the relative distances (in parsecs) from one star system to another be relative to the length of each interconnecting jump route?

Also, which (if any) of the border systems have jump-routes leading to Kurgan and Vuldrok space?

 

[Digger2000]

Most of the distances between world are unknown, what maybe looks like two planets next to each other may in fact be many galaxies apart.

 

[Nerroth]

Well, if they were in separate galaxies, would astronomers not be able to tell by comparing the relative positions of various celestial phenomena (other galaxies visible from both places, the centre of whichever galaxy they happen to be in, etc) and seeing if there are any matches?

 

[Digger2000]

Yes some places have been Identifed by the side view of Galaxies, but as these are all over the universe its hard to identfy where the galaxies are.

 

[McKickaha]

Well, if they were in separate galaxies, would astronomers not be able to tell by comparing the relative positions of various celestial phenomena (other galaxies visible from both places, the centre of whichever galaxy they happen to be in, etc) and seeing if there are any matches?

But your are looking at "instanaeous" travel by gate versus observation from another galaxy. Difference in relative time of those two images would be huge. Postions of all the stars, and even their existance and numbers, old stars dying v new stars forming, would be entirely different.

Acedemic point tho. :lol: