Delta Quadrant Map
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:40 pm
Hey everyone
So I finally dug out my old PSD of the map I did of the Delta Quadrant, based off the same star charts source as the Alpha/Beta Quadrant map. I've updated the styling of it to match our most recent maps, but haven't done anything else to it yet (I'll want to be adjusting some things to make them look a bit more realistic at some point soon; for example the fact that the planet Haakonia and the Haakonian Outpost are both shown outside of Haakonian space), but I wanted to put it up here for discussion before I started making too many changes.
I have decided to put it on a larger scale than the Alpha/Beta maps (they go on a scale of 10Ly = 32px, which I think I calculated from the distance between Earth and Vulcan. This map I've decided to put the scale in the key as 100Ly = 40px. From research I've done online, Voyager would have travelled about 40000Ly between the Caretaker's Array and New Talax, and so I used that distance to work out the scale. I think we just have to assume that none of the maps go right to the outside borders of their respective quadrants in order to deal with the scaling differences).
The main things I wanted to discuss with everyone are what region to focus on for the more in-detail TF map (in the same way TF11 has, and the WIP one for TF56), and then where specifically our return catapult and Oberon Base are going to be placed.
Anyway, here's the link to the map (mobile users be warned; lots of pixels): http://pegasusfleet.net/images/maps/new ... _dquad.png
Given our major races - Devore Imperium, Vaadwaur, Hirogen and Malon, I think it's fairly safe to say that we're in the lower part of the map, under the main bit of Borg space. You've got the Devore Imperium and Malon Sanctity space there, as well as one of the (presumably many) areas of Hirogen space. The Vaadwaur homeworld is in that area too, though after the episode that featured them, I think it was established they used their subspace corridors to go and form a colony elsewhere, so we can make up a new bit of territory for them (maybe even map in some of the subspace corridors as we go?). Then we just need to decide whether to be on the Turei side of Voyager's original route, or the Malon side of it. I think the Malon side has more to play with since there's a bit more space on the map there before going off the edge of it, but I can always expand the map if we did want to stretch out a bit more.
So what do people think?
So I finally dug out my old PSD of the map I did of the Delta Quadrant, based off the same star charts source as the Alpha/Beta Quadrant map. I've updated the styling of it to match our most recent maps, but haven't done anything else to it yet (I'll want to be adjusting some things to make them look a bit more realistic at some point soon; for example the fact that the planet Haakonia and the Haakonian Outpost are both shown outside of Haakonian space), but I wanted to put it up here for discussion before I started making too many changes.
I have decided to put it on a larger scale than the Alpha/Beta maps (they go on a scale of 10Ly = 32px, which I think I calculated from the distance between Earth and Vulcan. This map I've decided to put the scale in the key as 100Ly = 40px. From research I've done online, Voyager would have travelled about 40000Ly between the Caretaker's Array and New Talax, and so I used that distance to work out the scale. I think we just have to assume that none of the maps go right to the outside borders of their respective quadrants in order to deal with the scaling differences).
The main things I wanted to discuss with everyone are what region to focus on for the more in-detail TF map (in the same way TF11 has, and the WIP one for TF56), and then where specifically our return catapult and Oberon Base are going to be placed.
Anyway, here's the link to the map (mobile users be warned; lots of pixels): http://pegasusfleet.net/images/maps/new ... _dquad.png
Given our major races - Devore Imperium, Vaadwaur, Hirogen and Malon, I think it's fairly safe to say that we're in the lower part of the map, under the main bit of Borg space. You've got the Devore Imperium and Malon Sanctity space there, as well as one of the (presumably many) areas of Hirogen space. The Vaadwaur homeworld is in that area too, though after the episode that featured them, I think it was established they used their subspace corridors to go and form a colony elsewhere, so we can make up a new bit of territory for them (maybe even map in some of the subspace corridors as we go?). Then we just need to decide whether to be on the Turei side of Voyager's original route, or the Malon side of it. I think the Malon side has more to play with since there's a bit more space on the map there before going off the edge of it, but I can always expand the map if we did want to stretch out a bit more.
So what do people think?