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Edge of Midnight Base Map - Work in Progress

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USSCoriolis said:
I have been working a lot on my 3D map, matching Star Trek stars with real Stars on Astrosynthesis. Do you have an index or ledger where you have sources for why you matched certain stars with certain Star Trek Systems? Maybe its a silly question depending on how much you are just making up for your own enjoyment and how much you are deducing or matching based on canon/soft canon reasoning, but its really cool either way and if you do have a list like I do of systems and sources I would love to see it or talk about it!

To add my 2 cents to one example, the Tarod System would be good as Gl 4.2/HIP 522, which is a binary system. Since Tarod should be on the sol-distant side of Sector 30 which, according to the TNG episode "The Neutral Zone", Sector 30 should be within 8 hours of Starbase 39-Sierra (most likely in the Kaleb System), and Sector 30 needs to be further away from earth than the Kaleb Sector. This would be the most likely candidate system. Tarod is also the likely system of Starbase 33.

here is an example of a much earlier version I was working on. There have been some changes and a lot of additions

https://astro.nbos.com/v/EMD1NZ/Test-Share
Click to expand...

Furthermore - are we sure of some of the positions in Astrosynthesis? Most info I have found puts Izar and Spica quite far above the galactic plane... but the Astrosynthesis view appears to show them below, like Achernar, or Canopus.

Certainly, the Kevin Jardine maps seem to support the prior view.

Nice set of references on there, though. Not sure what 'Third Submission Colony' and the like, relates to?

And Hamal being the location of Starbase 18 comes from the Diane Duane books. The issue there is it's treated as near the Romulan border (which in the Rihannsu books, seems consistently set in the Triangulum-Aries region, closer to where Tholian space would be on modern maps - plus, well on the way to the Pleiades)
So that has sort of dated.
 
I've looked at Masao Okazaki's maps (which John's sourcing for some place names), and nothing comes up. I might pick a Tellarite colony name for that star from FASA or one of the other beta sources, unless there's an alternative option or two available.
 
As it happens, the standard location for Vulcan in Trek has been revealed as an illusion:

"Discovery Alert-Spock's home planet goes 'Poof!'"
 
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Smaller constructs may be of interest:
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/05/28/and-then-there-were-four-or-maybe-not/

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In comics, we have the Pleroma…and the galaxy center seems to have beings of great age and power.

Now we know why:
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-dark-galaxy-innermost-stars-immortal.html

If Trek’s alt-history/cosmology is steady state——-you can find things trillions of years old.
 
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@USSCoriolis Barring any corrections from the various series' production teams, I prefer "Deneb" from "Encounter at Farpoint" to be Alpha Cygni.

I may have found at least one candidate for the un-named red supergiant in "The Naked Now": 32 Cygni. Maybe one of the components of the binary system 31 Cygni as well?
 
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Call for advice: anyone here playing/played the Klingon Academy game? You may have noticed some name-drops connected to it, partly because some of the EoM/Tranquility Press gang likes it, and after looking at the star names on the Klingon side, I couldn't see a problem with adding at least some of those.

I suppose I'm trying to figure out appropriate locations for the names I haven't added yet. No promises that I'll be able to heed every suggestion, but I'll read them. If you can include screencaps of sector-level maps from in the game, that would help.
 
Well we have two or three main areas in campaign: There's the Federation areas targeted by Chang's wargame, including the Cain and Able systems (code-named?) and then there's the systems in the actual civil war (at least one of which, Gareth Nar, lies somewhere between Ty'Gokor and Krios)

I have placed (penciled in) that system near Ty'Gokor on the Modiphius map, just a bit north-west, and south-west of Starbase 36. I also put Thaxius and Regas near outpost Delta 4 on the map, as a prelimary placement.

And further down we have the systems, such as Qu'ned and Shandrak, that pop up contested with the Tholians, in the wargames. There's also the Andorian colonies, which don't really have to be right near Andoria, either. I suppose Qu'ned, meantime, could be somewhere broadly towards Ventax?

I also provisionally have Norpin V being out near where Stellar Cartography puts Sigma Iotia. And from DC comics 'War and Madness' arc, put Starbase 180 at the 75 Tauri system (near the possible Tholian 'annex' and near Hyades) with Beta Barania nearby, close to Renavi. Beta Barania could be at Kappa Aurigae or maybe at Iota Tauri, I suppose?
 
I've noticed from Memory Beta that there were some themes in play for the Federation side as far as system-naming went: WW 1 battle sites (EG: Ypres, Somme), WW 2 Allied Forces military leaders(EG: Fletcher, Patton, Halsey, etc.), and names from the Bible (which Cain and Abel definitely were sourced from).
 
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Meanwhile, some related projects have been making progress. Including one devoted to the Dominion War. Last night, I was focused on the regions between Ferengi and Tzenkethi space...
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