Edge of Midnight Base Map - Work in Progress

[DEWLine]

This is a thing I've been working on for the last couple of months, because I was inspired by John Concagh's Edge of Midnight project.

EoM-DisputedZone-1Oct2023-A by Dwight Williams, on Flickr

 

[publiusr]

I like that format the best.

 

[DEWLine]

It was inspired by a grade-school-level world atlas of mine.

 

[ashleytinger]

Love seeing The Triangle getting more love!

 

[DEWLine]

John's idea is that the Triangle/Phalanx region is like the Delphic Expanse: more extensive along the Z-axis than it looks from the "top" downwards. Which will be fun to research...which is why I'm saving that section of the map for last.

 

[ashleytinger]

John's idea is that the Triangle/Phalanx region is like the Delphic Expanse: more extensive along the Z-axis than it looks from the "top" downwards. Which will be fun to research...which is why I'm saving that section of the map for last.

That is EXACTLY what I'm doing to account for the Federation being on the other side of it in later centuries.

 

[DEWLine]

@ashleytinger I will try to keep this thread current as things move along. I suspect you'll have some useful comments as the Edge of Midnight project moves along...

 

[publiusr]

Maybe some stars depicted at a larger scale?

I might rotate the map so that curve of the neutral zone on TOS is preserved here.

Some boxed text...and arrows pointed towards significant worlds.

 

[DEWLine]

The part of the RNZ that we saw on "Balance of Terror" is coreward of the map's "jurisdiction", so I left that section off.

For this project.

 

[DEWLine]

One of the currently-hidden layers is a map of the sectors, explaining their vertical "stacking".

 

[DEWLine]

Making further progress, particularly on the Triangle/Phalanx region.
@ashleytinger, I hope to have something useful to you in short order.

 

[ashleytinger]

Very cool! Yeah the only two maps I've really been using are a FASA map that was out of one of the books and an updated one for he 24th Century that has a few more planets on it including Nimbus III. So having more material and seeing what other people do with it is always fun.

 

[DEWLine]

Hoping to match up actual stars to those names. I'm not sure that I'll be able to manage exact temp and magnitude, but so long as the main regional/political groupings remain intact...?

 

[ashleytinger]

*nod nod*

 

[DEWLine]

Further progress:

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-19-at-10-04-38-PM-989174933

 

[DEWLine]

Working up a spreadsheet of stars within 5 parsecs - a little over 16 light-years - of my candidate for Baker's World's host star, currently HD 27019 AKA Rossiter 2338. Should I add a parsec or two to that search radius?

 

[USSCoriolis]

This is really cool! Have you tried mapping in in 3D? I use a 3D mapping software to keep a 3D map of the Star Trek Universe (still WIP) mapping Trek Systems to real stars.

 

[DEWLine]

I have assorted software at hand with which to do so. Time with which to learn the software these days, not so much!

 

[DEWLine]

About Green: I may have picked badly as candidate host stars go. We'll see.

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-8-58-48-PM-990182400

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=10173657&select_center=1

https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/...&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id

 

[BK613]

This is really cool! Have you tried mapping in in 3D? I use a 3D mapping software to keep a 3D map of the Star Trek Universe (still WIP) mapping Trek Systems to real stars.

Which one?