DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER
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Campaign Setting Map for Darkstar
Here is the campaign map for the Darkstar campaign currently underway between myself, @gladesrunner and @aras. The lower left corner marks Earth’s location, the rest are real stars and their approximate locations in the Libra, Ara, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. I don’t pretend to be good at trigonometry or plotting the declination, distance, and right ascension coordinates of these stars, but this is the general idea of what’s out there in these directions and in these distance ranges.
There’s a lot more being put together for this particular setting, explaining the background for the war, the factions involved, how it started, and what the different factions each hope to get out of the war (and how it ties the opposing coalitions together). Not quite ready for publication yet, as they campaign is still in progress and in fact only in the very early stages.
An amazing project @oriskany. Look forward to further posts and publication of the game.
Thanks very much, @gremlin . I’m trying to get this latest Darkstar campaign back on track – had to take a 3-week break to work up the next article series. 🙂
Is this the focus of this particular campaign, or of the setting more generally? Also, am I being foolish thinking “why is everything in that one-quarter circle from earth?”, or am I not understanding the diagram as everything, in reality, is in motion, and a quarter circle is just convention. The point is to show the distance from earth and relative distance with each other, not an actual slice of current positions relative to earth.
Thanks, @davehawes – yes, this is just for the campaign immediately in hand. Yes, all these star systems are in fact in motion, but the scales of time and space make it not really an issue. (in 40,000 years, Gliese 570 and 581 will be much closer together, that kind of thing). Earth / Sol would be at the bottom left corner. It’s a VERY rough approximation of what’s out there, but only in a certain direction. I use this general model of star maps because on astronomy websites, the coordinates / positions are always given in this format –… Read more »
Very cool diagram, who says gaming can’t be educational!
Thanks! 😀