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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

This is a "points of interest" map and as such it is far from complete. There could easily be a dozen neutral worlds that are relatively insignificant... not to mention worlds that are interesting but that are practically unknown and/or a few unusual stellar phenomena. So... this map just covers the high spots.

One hex is 83 and 1/3 parsecs across... and takes four and a half days to cross at Warp 7.
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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

More notes:

1907-(0601) -- This was a Kzinti mine that went bust and was sold to the Federation. This is Skexis' birth world.

1907's Central nebula -- Captain Jack saw some freaky stuff here back when he was serving on the OCL USS Suffolk.

1907-(0706) -- The Federation science outpost is positioned to study and observe disturbances in the space-time continuum that purportedly occur here.

1907-(0804) -- Not even Captain Jack knew about this particular smuggler's base.
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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

These nebula are unusually large-- maybe even the largest observed in known space.
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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

The Federation colony in hex 1907, subhex 0505 is Otrai.
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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

This is from a while back, but if you're going to adventure in this hex... we can presume that Captain Jack has talked about this when he was sufficiently liquored up:

Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

This is from Steve Cole: "Every F&E hex includes at least 50 inhabited planets (ranging from a few dozen colonists up) and at least one each of every kind of astronominal/geographical phenomenon you can pick."

So that means... that the worlds referenced above are not the only inhabited planets. They are just eight "points of interest." Inhabited worlds that aren't listed are usually outposts of various sorts... or else non-space faring species' home worlds... or else other small and/or insignificant worlds.
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Sgt_G · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject:

Each F&E hex 500 parsecs across and thick. That's 125,000,000 cubic parsecs. Let's assume for simple-math's sake that there's an average of one stellar body every five parsecs, or one such per 125 cubic parsecs. That means there are roughly one million stellar bodies per F&E hex.

If one were to further assume that 10% of these are stars with planetary systems, and then 1% of those have planets worth visiting. That's about a thousand planets that one could "safely" put a mining base or military outpost on. Let's further estimate that 1% of these planets are Class-M and can support life without too much terraforming required. Therefore, by this math, there are approximately ten potential colony worlds in each F&E hex. In SVC's opinion, it's more like 50 terra-colony worlds and 200 domed-colony worlds.

Of course, few of these would actually have been discovered, let alone of any colonies built yet. I mean, how long would it take to survey a million stars?
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gurps_gm · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject:

Jeffr0, what product are you using for your hex grid?

Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

gurps_gm · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks! This is what I've been looking for. Very Happy

SYKOJAK · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that is the beauty about using the GURPS system. They do love thier
Hexes within Hexes system. It is cool at times and a pain at other times.
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Jeffr0 · Commander Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 743

aramis · Lieutenant JG Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Posts: 59

Sgt_G · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 6:10 am Post subject:

Just playing around with my CAD, I came up with this nested hex-grid:

There are 16 sub-hexes within each hex (13 full ones plus 6 half-hexes), with 16 sub-sub-hexes nested within the sub-hexes, for 256 per hex.

From side-to-side, the sub-hexes are 125 parsecs, and 31.25 parsecs per sub-sub-hex.

Opinions?
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Mike · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:19 pm Post subject:

21 sub-hexes across from vertex point to vertex point.
16 sub-hexes flat side to opposite flat side.
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