Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

Jason, a small question about a detail from the Atlas. At one point a species called the Nartians, who are stubby little guys with four arms, is described. Are these meant to be the same as the stubby little guys with four arms who were always popping up in the background of WEG illustrations? I've wondered that for a good while now as the description does sound very similar.

 

Hmm, I wonder if Gatalenta has been placed yet. It is pretty prominent in the New Republic, my guys says Core, but I am curious. I am still very curious about Mirrin Prime too.

--Adm. Nick

 

It's funny, I had to deal with some flooding at my apartment, and ended up finding my full-sized print-outs of the old galaxy maps from the Essential Atlas days - the Outer Rim, the Tion Cluster, the Knight Errant map... ah, the golden days of SW cartography!

 

Afraid I don't know. (Or once knew and have forgotten.) They were given a homeworld -- Nars -- in the Senex/Juvex for the Atlas, but IIRC that was the extent of our duties. Illustrations didn't come into it.

 

So, when do we get the whole thing? Curious.

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Were maps for the sectors of the Core Worlds, Colonies and Inner Rim ever developed? Would love to know what sectors Taanab and Yir Tangee were in.

 

Thanks any way Jason. If you did forget, I'll attach a picture of the aliens in question. Might be worth a shot to jog your memory, no? This is them:

 

No. On the list to be done one day but can't give you an ETA.

 

Fantasy Flight Games' Suns of Fortune has a pretty good map of the Corellian Sector...

 

Ok, having poured over all the recent TLJ material and looked at some of the older stuff, we are starting to get a rough picture of FO space. The majority are definitely in the New Territories (aka old Remnant Space in EU), with Entralla, Jaemus, Prefsbelt, and Borosk being locations of prominent FO shipyards, ministries, and the like. They have conquered and strip mined worlds like Hays Major & Minor (in the Otomok system, which appears to be Expansion Region in a map from Bomber Command) and turned worlds like Martaus VI into labor camps.

Their activities in the Known Galaxy are focused on the Trans-Hydian Borderlands, which seem to be the unofficial barrier between the New Republic and First Order Space. They are actively encouraging pirates in the Cassander Sector and harassing the neutral worlds of Mamkoda and Caraxl.

In short, I'd argue that the New Territories, parts of the Trans-Hydian Borderlands, and the topmost portions of the Northern Dependencies are under FO control pre-TFA. As for which Centrist worlds I'd put firmly in the FO camp, Orinda is located smack dab in the New Territories and had senators that were ardently pro-Imperial. I'm sure that the FO found a way to take over Scipio and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had Yaga Minor too.

The only pocket of the New Territories that I see the New Republic controlling is that region around Ithor and Taris, which are both NR members. Beyond those worlds, the region is chalk full of confirmed or likely FO members.

--Adm. Nick

 

The Unknown Regions and Wild Space are chalk full of potential FO colonies as well. We know that they established a sort of frontier corps that encouraged the settlement of new worlds. The size, scope, and power of the First Order's Unknown Regions holdings are unknown (in intended), but given they are barely 20-30 years old, they are probably more akin to the small colonies we see in Star Trek than worlds populated by millions or billions of people. The Visual Dictionary reinforced the point from the TFA VD that most First Order naval crewers spend their lives on one vessel. That, coupled with Snoke's seemingly lack of interest in a planetary capital, reinforces the mobile nature of the First Order.

--Adm. Nick

 

So from the TLJ VD, does the map of Luke's journey to Ahch-To actually have a starting point, and/or any notable locations he stops at along the way?

 

He starts somewhere in the Taldot Sector (the one represented by Vasp Vaspar, Rebel minister of industry) and then appears to stop at Kashyyyk. The line goes through Kashyyyk (implying the stop), but the rest of the line doesn't go through worlds listed on the map. Of course, I'm sure he made multiple stops along the way.

--Adm. Nick

 

Wrong thread.

 

I've said elsewhere how TLJ seems, thematically, right at home in the Bantam-era books. The last of these, of course, was the Hand of Thrawn duology, which hinged on the fear that secret military might hidden in the Unknown Regions could hook up with the Imperial Remnant and fuel their resurgence across a huge chunk of the galaxy, with only a fractious, disorganized, undergunned New Republic to stop them.

All these years later, and we're seeing exactly that.

Considering that we haven't seen any Chiss helping the First Order, I'd put their western border east of Csilla but west of Illum. Who knows how far back they go, but someday soon we'll have to get a good, hard look inside the Unknown Regions. Considering how militarily capable the FO is, I doubt there's much, if anything, left of the Chiss or Chiss space.