Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

I think until some of the continuity issues with the CW are completely settled (which probably won't be until the TV show is at least close to being finished) they really have to walk lightly around that section. Stuff changes too easily otherwise.

 

Almania and Teth are both in appendix as Outer Rim, but should be Outer Rim, as per EGP&Moons and Clone Wars (movie) respectively?

Shouldn't Gardaji Rift also be in Wild Space? Zonama Sekot wasn't in the Republic.

 

In my case, I used "various" and "other" as equivalent terms. In the case of Nar Shaddaa I think Jason did that stat block, but my guess would be the "various" represents all the starhoppers who hang out there and "other" represents the Evocii or vrblthrs.

Dan

 

Hi everybody -- just a note that the fifth and final installment in the endnotes series is now up. You can check it out at:

Geekosity
Starwars.com blogs

Also, all of the relevant online pieces of the Atlas will be rolled up at the following address on the official site, if you're ever looking for something: starwars.com/atlas

Dan

 

alright, thanks for the response!

 

The sectorial Moffs are all there from the beginning - the 20 special Moffs are the ones that got control of one of the 20 "Sector Army" military territories; essentially oversectors, but as the HNN article showed they didn't have a special title at the time. Tarkin later suggested changes to the concept of oversectors and the title of "Grand Moff" was started then.

 

Here's something interesting re Dr. Vindi -- I couldn't figure out why his species was so mysterious, given that I said he was a Faust in Ultimate Battles (something I got from something internal to LFL, but can't remember exactly what). So I checked the book as published, and that paragraph was changed to remove the Faust reference. Interesting! I asked Leland, and he said Vindi's species is unclear at present.

So Vindi may or may not be a Faust, or a Permese. FWIW, I wrote him up as not a Permese -- the line in Ultimate Battles is meant so suggest that the Permese crime families arrange accidents all the time, so it was suspected that they'd killed Vindi when he disappeared.

I'll be very interested to find out what's ultimately decided....

 

A sector fleet with 6-8 major capital ships would equal 4500-6000 major capital ships for the NRDF circa the Thrawn Campaign, IF you simply assume that the 3/4 of the galaxy controlled by the NR was fully stocked and staffed equally.

I would argue, however, that sector fleets could vary significantly given their size, strategic value, location, etc. Backed by 3/4 of the galaxy, it is easy to imagine the New Republic fielding a few thousand large capital ships at this time. A mix of Mon Cal cruisers (probably at least 50%), captured Star Destroyers, and newer designs like the Republic-class SD. The NR heavily relied on Assault Frigates in this era, so it is also likely that during the push to the Core that countless Dreadnaughts were captured, acquired, purchased, or found in old scrapyards and depots.

Of course, I didn't mean to derail the cartographic discussion, so we can start another thread for this if you like.

--Adm. Nick

 

Jason and Dan: Since y'all are doing a highlight of the Tion Cluster, don't forget it was the location of the asteroid where the Colicoid Creation Nest was relocated (cf. the novel "Millennium Falcon")

regarding the Faust: aha! Jason thx for clarifying that about the Faust, as I was real curious how I was missing that!

 

After digesting the conquests of Xim map, I can hardly wait for the Tion Cluster... It's strange that most of the information about it comes from one obscure WEG module and one of the Han Solo books!
Jason and Dan, the endnotes mentioned you guys had a bunch of never-published WEG material. I know they had mentioned a future Hegemony SB in the Corporate Sector one - did they have any notes on that SB that you'd be using in your article?

 

Couple of new things up at the official site, with big thanks to Pablo Hidalgo. Here is the online version of the appendix. It will be updated periodically -- in fact, it already needs an update to add some new placements and to fix some errors. (We'll get to it; we don't want to drive Pablo totally insane right off the bat....)

And here is a behind-the-scenes piece Dan and I put together that talks a bit more about the book's development.

More to come!

(Oh, and don't forget Wednesday's chat on Suvudu....)

 

after postin in the rpg section... i realized this belonged here...


So Resh 9376 apparantly has roughly a 20 year "orbit" and since I don't own the atlas.... yet, I'm trying to figure out where that orbit most likely is. I remember something about the Gordian Reach being nearby, but not enough to close in much further. Guesstimating, how many systems would the comet glide past with a that short of a run? and which way (up down north south east west)? what was had in mind by those who made mention of it in the atlas?

I'm a big fan of continuity (i know... good luck to me) and am trying to fig out how to get my players to stumble upon it when they are stuck with a broken hyperdrive, practically adrift in space somewhere around the corporate sector/sith space/the gordian reach neck of the woods.

They're going to die from starvation, asphyxiation, or pirates... aren't they?

edit: where is the Niuri sector?

 

Even if you have the Atlas - ESPECIALLY if you have the Atlas - go there right now. SECTORS! (Not for every planet, but there's an additional column for the sectors in the Online Appendix!)

 

i don't... i have to wait for a paycheck that allows me some wiggle room.

 

Sorry, IcePirate, our posts overlapped and I should've included Jason Fry's post in mine - I was referring to the Online Appendix. Apologies about the confusion (although you might find answers there anyways)

 

... If anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner, hyperventilating.

This is just awesome beyond words.

 

Jason and Dan - this Online Companion is better than anything I could have hoped for! The Index now has sectors! This is simply beyond the meaning of the word "awesome"

I'm seriously thinking of start a new religion decicated to worshipping you two. (What, I'm regularly praying to Chris Trevas since the day I first saw the Essential Guide to the Force)

 

Where's this DS3 reference? I'm not seeing it...

 

The online index is fantastic, but please let there be some easy way to distinguish updates. (Translating that to a wiki table was not as simple as I expected and I'd hate to have to re-export the whole thing every time an update is announced.)

Seriously, though. An online chart of 4,387 systems is a monumental piece of reference material even if we didn't have the Atlas to go with it. Have you seen the kind of chaos your creation caused before we stopped needing to copy everything in by hand?

 

Quest, Lok is indeed in the Karthakk system.

 

I've checked near Endor; I can't find the reference either. The map does point out D'rinba as the site of Rebel spy activity , and also suggests it's the site where the Death Star II's superlaser was constructed. This may be a retcon, suggesting the superlaser was constructed at D'rinba, and the Death Star II was moved there briefly to install it...but this doesn't quite jive with the boardgame backstory as presented in the game rules. It could also be accidentally only referencing Abel's mention of the D'rinba mission in the Dark Forces articles, and not taking into account the game itself. Personally, I now wonder if the initial construction site wasn't Geonosis...for a number of reasons that would take a small essay to explain.

TC