GT:AR3 Side Bar World Question

[Gruffty]

On one of the pages of GT:AR3, there is a side bar of a guy telling his battle story. The first line is something like "Balthazar? Yeah, I was there..." He then goes on to describe some combat and a "lizard" (?Ithklur?) getting smoked.

Anyhoo, does anyone know where this planet Balthazar is? It sounds like it's on the Soli/Hiver border somewhere.

 

[Border Reiver]

I can find no reference to Balthazar within any published work or in the Sunbane files. Using Joshua Bells fabulous map site as a handy search engine turns up nothing either.

I would suggest siting it in Leonidae, perhaps as part of the Corona Regnum or similar such Solomani human border polity.

 

[Gruffty]

Thanks for that, BR. Of course, I was just wondering if it might be any where near or in Spica

 

[Peter Newman]

Does Balthazar have to be the Hive Federation name of the planet? From the sidebar it sounds like it's the Solomani name of the planet. Just pick some planet you'd like to use and say that Balthazar is its Solomani name, while our files use th Hiver name. If I was an Imperial making a map I'd make sure not to use the Solomani names for anything not actually inside the Solomani Sphere, the better to annoy my rivals.

 

[Gruffty]

I suppose I was just interested, is all. I like things to "link up" between sources