 November 28, 2011 - 9:08pm | I'm creating a new SF adventure, The Mystery of Starium-X, and I created a site to document the process and collect background information. My goal is to have the material edited enough to be worthy of posting here or including in SFMan. Currently there is some basic background information and details on the star systems used in the adventure: https://sites.google.com/site/stariumx/Up next is adding race descriptions and getting the adventure timeline put up. Another aspect of the site is working on a map that adds the 3D "z coordinate" to the SF map. I created a dataset for the zebulon's map that adds in this coordinate and tries to 1) keep the distance as close as possible and 2) make the jump routes work for my web-based 4x game I'm developing (it has a hard limit of 20ly for jumps, so any star "close" to another on the 2d map without a jump route is > 20ly from that neighbor when using the z coordinate). |
 November 28, 2011 - 11:14pm | I've done xyz coordinates for the Frontier where all the jump routes still round to the distance printed on the map. I started with an xyz map from Pyliam (sp) Cluster and put it all in a spreadsheet so I could tweak the coordinates so that the distances all rounded to the AD and Zeb's map. If your interested I'll dig it up. -iggy |
 November 29, 2011 - 4:53am | I saw a login on your site, is that because there are forums there or is that just for you to access the managerial controls of the site? BTW great work with the 3d map. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 29, 2011 - 6:46am | Looks good let us know when you update. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 November 29, 2011 - 7:52am | Awesome site. While looking at https://sites.google.com/site/stariumx/star-system-n9x3x23 I was imagining VIII Frozen Terrestrial as somehow getting kicked out of the habitable zone. Many of it's lifeforms (plant, animal) have been snap frozen. A biologists paradise! (if you can stand the cold). |
November 29, 2011 - 7:58am | Hope you don't mind, I added "Mystery of Starium-X" link to the LINKS tab on the top menu of this site.
Looks like I have some images to clean up. :-/ |
 November 29, 2011 - 2:16pm | Nice site. I see you're using my Star Frontiers font. If you can add special characters (either via dialog or alt-codes) there is a captial A that is designed to be shifted under letters like T, P, F, etc. It is character 161 in the character set (Hex/Unicode: 00A1). There is also an R with a long tail at character 172 (Hex/unicode 00AC). Also, there is a larger version of the 30th Anniversary Logo on the Star Frontiers Network Wiki if you want to use it. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
November 29, 2011 - 7:43pm | FC, since your listing the actual distance between stars, you could list ship speeds in light-years per day with variations. For instance, ships with the Kupper drives have ratings between .80 and 1.33 ly/day while Jedggy drives rating from 1.1 to 1.6 ly/day. Just a thought, I got Moore.  |
November 30, 2011 - 5:43pm | Thanks for all the comments!  I'm thinking I should start a project on this site for brain storming, and use the google site to develop the adventure (I can edit that from boring day-job meetings with my mobile). Would make it easier to post about updates too. :) |
November 30, 2011 - 5:46pm | @TerlObar Great Font! Yeah I need to fix the text, I read the docs after flattening out the final PNG images. Do you want me to add a link to the font and a copyright message? I could put it on the link and/or copyright section on that site. |
November 30, 2011 - 6:04pm | I'm glad you like the font. I need to make a page in my wiki for it with descriptions and other information about it. After I do that, then sure, a link would be great. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
November 30, 2011 - 10:39pm | FC, since your listing the actual distance between stars, you could list ship speeds in light-years per day with variations. For instance, ships with the Kupper drives have ratings between .80 and 1.33 ly/day while Jedggy drives rating from 1.1 to 1.6 ly/day.
Just a thought, I got Moore. Keep sending thoughts. :) I'm working on a table now for the jump times for those systems. Hmm, what are Kupper and Jedggy drives? I don't recall the reference in KH or any of the other content I read. re: n9x3x23 VIII Frozen Terrestrial I like this idea, flash-frozen. :) With that system what if something had yanked the 3rd bode-orbit planet to the outer system (to VIII - Frozen Terrestrial)? The same object that caused that event may have smashed a planet where the V-Asteroid Belt is now. That terrestrial planet would have been right in between it's "too hot" and "too cold" terrestrial planet siblings. Perhaps there is an ancient flash frozen city with some ultra high tech that an intrepid archaeology team could find? Maybe there is still a subterranian civilization there that melts frozen gasses to breath...as long as their fusion reactor remains fueled. |
December 1, 2011 - 9:32am | Kupper and Jedggy were made up on-the-fly. :-) Kupper Interstellar Drives have become the mainstay of merchant pilots throughout the rim territories. Reliable and affordable these drives have what it takes to haul your pseudo-pods anywhere in the frontier sector! Jedggy Quick-HaulTM (A cross between jedion357 and Iggy). Although Jedggy drives are faster than Kupper drives, they are primary used for short-haul missions due to their tendency to overheat when jumping more than 6.34 light-years. These drives can be found on many tramp freighters and were made popular when Rum Rogue, Captain of the Millenarian Osprey made the Rum Run in under 89 hours. |
December 2, 2011 - 11:58pm | Jedggy Quick-HaulTM (A cross between jedion357 and Iggy). I wondered if that was the source when I first read Jedggy. I must have read a little to much computer code in my day job to start thinking like a robot.  Jedggy is a dralasite freight captain who studied engineering so he could soup up his ship drives. His success landed him a design contract with PGC and he retired very wealthy on royalties after Rum Rogue's famus run. -iggy |
