Cartographical anomaly

[77topaz]

I've noticed an interesting cartographical anomaly/pattern on the coreward border of the Imperium. For each border sector from Corridor to Antares, the Imperial border touches the coreward edge of the sector in the A subsector, but remains about four/five parsecs away in the B, C and D subsectors. Is there a reason for this?

 

[inexorabletash]

Bad random number generator?

Dates back to the Atlas. I've been curious too.

IMTU it's because the Imperium needed Longbow stations and... well... potential sites in subsector A were first on the review list...

 

[Ulsyus]

That frequency of positioning would also make sense WRT the Longbow project. Closer in the same subsector of each sector for regularity's sake...

 

[rancke]

IMTU the line running through the sector borders IS the Imperial border, known to the Imperial Navy as The Line with capital letters. It's the line that the Imperium doggedly held (and still holds although it hasn't been much of a problem for 500 years) against Vargr encroachments. "No Vargr below The Line" as the old Navy motto had it.

I was quite upset when I was made aware of those canon non-aligned systems 'Below the Line'.


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