General Finding a world by UWP?

[Putraack]

For one of my group's PCs, we randomly rolled up her homeworld, but didn't go beyond that. After I praised Travellermap.com, I was asked if that homeworld was actually on there.

Is there a way to search Traveller Map, or a wiki, or anything, using the UWP? If there is, then we have potentially increased the depth of MTU. If not, I can continue to say, "It's not far, just not in this sector."

 

[Commander Truestar]

Yes,
Simply navigate to the Traveller map and put the UWP for the world in the search window:


As soon as I enter, say, the UWP for Regina(Regina) into the search window: A788899-C

I get:

 

[whulorigan]

Or, you can go to the upper right corner and choose the question mark under the drop down and select "About the Traveller Map" , which takes you here:

Information - Traveller Map

travellermap.com

Scroll down to Tips and Tricks.

 

[Putraack]

Thanks!

I had tried just plugging (what I thought was) the UWP into the search bar, and nothing came out. I guess there really isn't one that matches.

As it turned out, there some communications errors between the player and I, and what we really had to go on was "Garden, High Tech", not a UWP.

Acis in the Trojan Reaches came pretty close, so I think we will use that.

 

[kilemall]

Just a thought for future reference - you could search for world size, atmosphere, hydrographics and pop, and have a revolution change the government or law level since the character was last home.

 

[King Midas]

Just a thought for future reference - you could search for world size, atmosphere, hydrographics and pop, and have a revolution change the government or law level since the character was last home.

I think a really really violent revolution might lower the POP a point, if you want to go there.

 

[yallambie]

The real galaxy is much thicker than the Traveller one so you could just decide it is "above" or "below" somewhere convenient, perhaps two or three jumps up or down to explain why it's isolated and missed off most maps.

 

[Commander Truestar]

The real galaxy is much thicker than the Traveller one so you could just decide it is "above" or "below" somewhere convenient, perhaps two or three jumps up or down to explain why it's isolated and missed off most maps.

Or, you can put the Universe on a diet.
Apparently, the Milky Way could use one....LOL

 

[Grav_Moped]

The real galaxy is much thicker than the Traveller one so you could just decide it is "above" or "below" somewhere convenient, perhaps two or three jumps up or down to explain why it's isolated and missed off most maps.

Or, you can put the Universe on a diet.
Apparently, the Milky Way could use one....LOL

I see the 2D map as what the 3D universe resolves to within Jumpspace.

 

[ady]

Alternatively, you could have them choose/roll for a homeworld in the sector and then assign their homeworld stats from the world chosen? Another alternative is when their stats don't fit any world nearby - just say the world they grew up on is a minor secondary world or moon in any star syatem of your choice, sort of like making them a martian or lunaian from the Sol System.

 

[Garnfellow]

Using wildcards you can search using very specific parameters. For example, uwp:?[678][568][567]???-[CDEF] alleg:im* in:SPIN will pull up just Imperial worlds in the Spinward Marches with the Garden and High Tech trade codes:

• Karin (SPIN 0534 A767768-C )
• Iderati (SPIN 0732 A887798-C)
• Bendor (SPIN 2336 A756656-C)

 

[whulorigan]

I see the 2D map as what the 3D universe resolves to within Jumpspace.

Which actually makes thing even easier (if you don't mind IYTU/House Ruling):

If the 3D Universe (4D Spacetime) mathematically resolves/collapses to a 2D/3D Hyper-spacetime (we'll call it a "roughly" 2D spatial field for simplicity sake ), then depending upon your destination system and its angle/trajectory from the originating system in 3D spherical coordinates, there could be a number of different potential 2D spatial field "plots" based upon entry angle and other factors.

This is where the GM can introduce his own custom "Sectors" or "Subsectors" into the setting relative to the published sectors as branching off from the main Traveller Map Sector/Subsector plots. Those "Sectors/Subsectors" either may or may not be technically part of the published Sectors/Subsectors (just "off the (published) map", so to speak).

It also reintroduces frontiers (North/South projection of the Mean Galactic Plane) if you go far enough, at the GM's discretion.

 

[inexorabletash]

Using wildcards you can search using very specific parameters. For example, uwp:?[678][568][567]???-[CDEF] alleg:im* in:SPIN will pull up just Imperial worlds in the Spinward Marches with the Garden and High Tech trade codes:

• Karin (SPIN 0534 A767768-C )
• Iderati (SPIN 0732 A887798-C)
• Bendor (SPIN 2336 A756656-C)

You can also use the "remark" qualifier:

in:spin remark:ht remark:ga alleg:im*