Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

Pretty much the answer. IIRC, didn't the episode actually state that they needed to choose not only an aquatic fighting force, but also one that is a standing army, and that can be called into action on rather short notice?

 

Ok, just watched Lego Padawan Menace; couldn't understand all the dialogue, but they seemed to mention two planet names in dialogue--were these new planets? One sounded like it might have been Christophsis, but I had a hard time making it out

 

inPadawan Menace

C-3PO tells Wuher he is so and so from where2 and where2

and the Senator that says blahblahblah is from planet where 1 and where1

I can't make out either name; but I think both planets could find room in the Atlas regardless of the short's lack of canonicity

 

Well I wouldn't see it in the atlas since that Lego stuff is non canon.

 

We've known about the magic of astrogating since WEG days. Hyperspace travel duration is not fixed constant; even if all of the equipment is the same between two given vessels. There are standard routes to be calculated for the safest travel. That's what everyone's idea of "normal travel" is based on.

But, those were never the only times available. Astrogators could "cut corners" so to speak, increasing the risk and decreasing the travel time. Force-users had it even better. And a master of the Force like Sidious could Force astrogate to find the quickest possible routes, literally unavailable to anyone else, as no one rivaled his ability to do so.

It was win-win for us, because those that tried and failed blessed us with knowledge of Otherspace.

I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel -- or in this case, navicomputer -- on this one.

There never has been a fixed travel time; it was always subject to change for any two travelers, depending on their astrogation skill -- natural or supernatural.

 

ah-uhm the movie isn't canon, doesn't mean the planets can't be! Jason included lots of planets in the Atlas from sources even less canonical than this movie

 

There is a new Galaxy Map on the SWTOR website. Uttini!

Edit: Oh, and it uses the coordinate grid from the Awesome Atlas! Double-fun!

 

the 3d version is sooooooo awesome!

 

awesome... I smell it for regular atlas map in future coming too! greeeat...


now the obvious question... how do I rip it for offline use?

 

This thing is pretty cool -- we shared some Atlas resources with the designer, but he already knew his stuff pretty well.

There is a separate Atlas tool in the works -- Modi's "megamap," which Pablo gave folks at Celebration V a peek at. It's insanely great and I hope we can make into a destination soon. It will blow you away.

 

Is Modi's Megamap 2D or 3D? Either way, love the cross-media use of Atlas-related items.

 

I just went through my browser's cache and downloaded all the stuff from cdn-www.swtor.com I could find in there to a folder on my harddrive. Many parts of the map (the galaxy map, planets, planet descriptions, starships) seem to be working offline to some degree when I open the .unity3d file in my browser. For the rest (e.g. planet videos) to work, recreating the server's folder structure might work.

The texts used by the map can be found here.

 

CORUSCANT'S POPULATION: One Trillion.

POPULATION OF OTHER COREWARD WORLDS: Ten Billion.

Not to be the killjoy numbers nitpicker in the room, but... um, what? The population of the entire Core, besides Coruscant, is less than twice that of Earth?

 

I'm assuming that number refers only to the other Core Worlds on the map.

For the sake of my own sanity.

 

I think it means the average population per planet of the region.

 

Yeah, definitely not the whole Core. Metellos alone has been established at 900 billion.

 

wow um so apparently part of Tion [ie Voss] was in Hutt space at this point. That hints at another interesting chapter in the Tionese/Huttese rivalry

 

can't wait

I hope it is downloadable too then, cause I want it offline as well as online! for archival purposes, please!

 

big thx for the texts. I am trying to get it to work offline, no luck so far. Any idea how to make it work or any upload of a working folder structure possibly? I also have trouble with the online 3D map in my browsers. It worked better on another computer when I was not home.

 

noticed that too. But does this mean the Hutts conquered the Tion or does it mean Tion and Hutts allied?

my new pet scenario:

Republic does not send help to Tion when the Sith invade and rather cuts its losses to protect the Core. Tionese, betrayed once again, have to fend for themselves and turn to old enemies as new allies. Tionese and Hutts unite in a defensive alliance against the Sith granting Hutts access to Tion space and protecting Tion with Hutt Forces.

I doubt Hutts conquered Tion. The Tionese would have gone to the Sith for help then against the Hutts, like they went to the Republic earlier, even if with mixed feelings. I just wonder how they explained the Hutts they can't keep their territory after the Sith threat is gone in the future might be one of the followup wars to throw the Hutts back out.

Mesa now want another Tion/Hutt article... if only we still had Hyperspace.

 

True, I think the Sith Empire territory here shown is their core territory only with other parts being besieged or occupational forces only instead of full Sith control and installed Sith society.

Hutt Space though looks fine

 

I don't think that the "Seat of the Empire" should be taken literally; the Republic controls part of the area too, at least Taris, and we know that the Sith Empire attacked the Republic in the Outer Rim in the Galactic South, where battles in Bothawui and Hoth were fought and where the Sith are active on Belsavis and Tatooine, and in the Unknown Regions - where several sources have mentioned Imperial activity post-Treaty beyond Ilum - the Sith have taken Ilum. (I wonder from which side of the galaxy the Sith reached the Rattataki, from north through the Unknown Regions or from the southeast through the Outer Rim?) Clearly the Sith should have bases in these areas, otherwise it would be very hard for them to operate so far away from their core territory. I think that "Seat of the Empire" is just a region of the galaxy, and that the actual borders of the Sith Empire are quite different; even the early map of the galaxy divided between the two leaves out the southern part of the galaxy, where the Sith clearly are active. So I would see the Sith Empire coiling around the remaining Republic territory everywhere except perhaps in part of the galactic west.

 

found a planet to add to index:

the ice planet Tina from Star Wars (1987) Japanese game