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Originally Posted by acrosome
I'd need a 3D starmap, for starters. Hell, I'd buy a well-executed map of the stars within 50 or so light years of Earth on it's own. As it is, though, you need to use a computer and software to have any realism there (I've done it).
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For my science fiction setting, I specifically avoided the area near Earth, because our knowledge of nearby stars is evolving so rapidly. So I put my worlds out on the edge of the galaxy, and cut them off from everyone else. I also only mapped the worlds out via connections, rather than geometry. I should be proof against new astronomy for quite some time (unfortunately, my setting may have issues with new research in paleontology, but that's to really relevant for the main thread).
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Originally Posted by acrosome
I've had bits and pieces of a setting like this in my mind for years, but I'll probably never write it down.
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I was like that, until I did start writing it down
http://panoptesv.com/RPGs/Settings/V...s/TheVerge.php
(it's still a long way from being done, though, especially when I get distracted by things like illustrating alien biospheres rather than describing the main planets or how characters fit in to the game mechanics.)
Luke