arakish;
Do you play in the old universe of Sheldon's Star Maps? IIRC it was also the Space Opera system.
MDC
What are the Sheldon's Star Maps?
No, we use the Hipparcos, Gliese, et. al. star catalogues. I have a program I bought (from a company in either
Sky & Telescope or
Astronomy magazine) that reads them in and can print out 2D maps using either Celestial Coordinates or Cartesian Coordinates. The program also allows me to give the official star names an alias name. Thus, I can kind of rename Alpha Centauri to Tranos as it is known to the indigenous species.
The gaming system we use is the SM system, just not the Privateers universe. Also, we have done quite a bit of work rewriting much of the errata in the SM system. In our universe, there are the Terran Star Empire, Confederation of Inurian Emirates, the Urgon Hegemony, the Snekra, the Administrative Dynasty, and the Khryshyn Concordium. Yet to be discovered are the Ibulonic Potentate and The Droves.
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