Is there a map of known space?

[MeepTheChangeling]

I'm working on a project where having a map of known space would be a god-send. With what I can find on the wiki, I am not able to construct one myself. I know it's not that important to have a map since Warp Gates mean distance is irrelevant and planets are effectively in one system for all the time it takes... But where is everything?

What are fringe locations? Why are they called that and not Rush locations? What sectors does the UGC occupy?

I'm trying to sort species by governments/factions for a tabletop RPG setting purpose. I've got most of them made. But it makes sense to group them by "UGC members" "Not-UGC Members, but starfaring/advanced" and "Primitives". It's proving hard to do this by the wiki, and I think a map would help greatly.

 

[Savin]

There is no map, and probably never will be.

 

[MeepTheChangeling]

Is that because no one can be bothered to make it, or because it's just not necessary?

 

[KAZEARC]

could be both?

 

[MeepTheChangeling]

could be both?

True... I guess there's not many nerds like me who enjoy looking at star charts of fictional universes.

 

[TheShepard256]

Here's my hypothesis:

Given how the Warp Gate network is expanded, it's probably a roughly spherical region of space centred on Ausaril, with the core regions encompassing the majority of Joint Ausar Federation and Terran Space Coalition spaces (and possibly also the Anatae Empire, who are UGC members in name only); those early UGC territories are likely to be composed of one single, large, continuous 'blob' of space for each major interstellar government with smaller, independent nations scattered throughout.
Governments who were connected to the Warp Gate network after the Thraggen War (e.g. the Gryvain Heartland Republic), as well as any expansions to existing territories since then, are likely a bit more scattered astrographically speaking (since they're not restricted to just going for neighbouring systems), but the Warp Gates mean that doesn't matter from a practical (e.g. flow of goods and people) standpoint.
Another way to group regions of known space would be to have the core regions (same as above), with layers spreading outward named after the Planet Rush they were first explored in (e.g. all the main story planets would be in Rush Space 14). This would be independent of the more government-focused groupings above, and the two could easily be used together.

All of this assumes that Warp Gates are sent out such that nearby systems are explored first, resulting in expansion roughly evenly in all directions there are star systems in. I think this is a reasonable assumption, since the majority of star systems have planets in them; even if none of the planets in a system are habitable (or can be made habitable through terraforming), they'll still contain valuable resources and provide places for things that shouldn't be done near civilised regions of space.

Also from this post,

We mapped it out once and figured that the Confederacy probably spans most if not all of Orion and has juuust started getting into the other arms of the galaxy.

You may also find other parts of that thread interesting or useful.

 

[MeepTheChangeling]

Here's my hypothesis:

Given how the Warp Gate network is expanded, it's probably a roughly spherical region of space centred on Ausaril, with the core regions encompassing the majority of Joint Ausar Federation and Terran Space Coalition spaces (and possibly also the Anatae Empire, who are UGC members in name only); those early UGC territories are likely to be composed of one single, large, continuous 'blob' of space for each major interstellar government with smaller, independent nations scattered throughout.
Governments who were connected to the Warp Gate network after the Thraggen War (e.g. the Gryvain Heartland Republic), as well as any expansions to existing territories since then, are likely a bit more scattered astrographically speaking (since they're not restricted to just going for neighbouring systems), but the Warp Gates mean that doesn't matter from a practical (e.g. flow of goods and people) standpoint.
Another way to group regions of known space would be to have the core regions (same as above), with layers spreading outward named after the Planet Rush they were first explored in (e.g. all the main story planets would be in Rush Space 14). This would be independent of the more government-focused groupings above, and the two could easily be used together.

All of this assumes that Warp Gates are sent out such that nearby systems are explored first, resulting in expansion roughly evenly in all directions there are star systems in. I think this is a reasonable assumption, since the majority of star systems have planets in them; even if none of the planets in a system are habitable (or can be made habitable through terraforming), they'll still contain valuable resources and provide places for things that shouldn't be done near civilised regions of space.

Also from this post,

You may also find other parts of that thread interesting or useful.

Thank you so much!

Also thank god nBIOS software has a "random star systems generator" built into Astro Synthesis because my friggan god mapping the whole of the Orion by hand would be a pain. Once that's done, I'll have 2d and 3d maps of the region that I can add named planets and systems into :3

More importantly, you seem to know how the governments and factions are laid out... Where do you find this info? The Wiki is very incomplete >< I have everything stated up, but you need to present the information in a TTRPG book in a nice orderly fashion. Sure I wont be selling it but that's no reason not to make it high quality.

 

[TheShepard256]

More importantly, you seem to know how the governments and factions are laid out... Where do you find this info?

The Codex entries, other bits of text scattered throughout the game, things that have been said on these forums, and a healthy dose of facts-and-logic-based speculation. The last one is why I said it was "my hypothesis"; not all of it is explicitly canon, just my best guess based on all the available evidence and some reasonable assumptions.

 

[MeepTheChangeling]

The Codex entries, other bits of text scattered throughout the game, things that have been said on these forums, and a healthy dose of facts-and-logic-based speculation. The last one is why I said it was "my hypothesis"; not all of it is explicitly canon, just my best guess based on all the available evidence and some reasonable assumptions.

So then if I make up plausable things to fill holes so that somone could run a TTRPG in the setting, no one would mind? GOOD ><