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Illustrated Guide to the Marches

That whitespace in the lower right would be perfect to list the extra physical details about the world itself.

Or maybe put those next to the world picture, and put the system details next to the J6 map?
 
I'm working on the Yori system in Celestia.
(Using Peter Trevor's statistics in something I found this afternoon called "The Guildsman #7" http://www.fantasylibrary.com/period/guild/g07.pdf)

Man, what a trip...Main world in-system is a captured moon of a SGG - it orbits at 66% to the plane of the system, but has a wicked axial tilt to bring it back to 13* off of that same axis.

It does some *very* strange, and beautiful, things over the course of the years... Here are just some easy shots I took tonight. These are pretty straightforward. I wish I'd documented some of the wierder things that were gorgeous, like the simultaneous sunrise/planetrise, with the rings of Dectura face-on, not edge-on like this picture.



Yori01.jpg

Yori02.jpg

YoriPlanetrise.gif
 
it would indeed be preferable to have a very short sketch of the world in question next to the planet graphic, with the system contents down with the j4 map (since most worlds in a system can be jumped to independently), especially if a page is to be done for each significant world in a system. but if the system has four gas giants each with twelve moons then there's no room to display it all, and in any case my very short sketches won't fit in the space in question. so I stuck with the above format of three zones - two fixed graphics and one variable text stack.
 
Originally posted by Jonathon Barton:
[QB] I'm working on the Yori system in Celestia.
(Using Peter Trevor's statistics in something I found this afternoon called "The Guildsman #7" http://www.fantasylibrary.com/period/guild/g07.pdf )
Huh. That's a darn good little fanzine, that. Nice find! (the article's pretty good too).


Man, what a trip...Main world in-system is a captured moon of a SGG - it orbits at 66% to the plane of the system, but has a wicked axial tilt to bring it back to 13* off of that same axis.
Realistically, the GG can obviously be tilted to its the orbit around the sun, and it's not too unlikely for Yori to be on an inclined orbit around it if its captured, but Yori's extra tilt on top of that is the step too far methinks - that's somewhat unlikely.
 
Ah, some beautiful work going on, here. Makes me ashamed of my AutoCAD schematics of old.

Flykiller, agreed on the system schematics, you soon run out of room with moons in the equation. I found myself with two sets of diagrams, one for the star system, one for the planetary systems. I think your system works very well for basic system info at-a-glance.

Sooo, Anthony, any more renderings in the offing?
 
um, I think you're gonna run out of room, Andrew, your size 7 world is getting dangerously close to the top/bottom borders of your image!
 
Size 8+ hangs over the edge a bit. If I'd scaled them so Size 10 fits you'd barely see the smaller worlds (and if I'd made the images taller there'd be too much empty space). It's an artistic compromise.
 
I think it would be nice if you put all of these worlds on one image next to eachother in order of increasing size so we can see the size progression more clearly.

Personally I don't mind not being able to see the smaller worlds too much - the point is that they're small after all
 
Originally posted by Malenfant:
Realistically, the GG can obviously be tilted to its the orbit around the sun, and it's not too unlikely for Yori to be on an inclined orbit around it if its captured, but Yori's extra tilt on top of that is the step too far methinks - that's somewhat unlikely.
Yeah, though I *suppose* that the Yori was spinning on it's axis as it flew through interstellar space, and it just happenned to get snagged by the Dectura Gravity Well in a manner that was serendipitous - which is exactly *why* it became the primary world of the system. The rest of the choices in that system aren't exactly E-ticket items...

It's also interesting looking at the "seasons" on Yori... If I got all the numbers right, just like earth, there are parts that are always light or dark for part of the year...but because we're talking about the 5th orbit, and not the 3rd, the North Pole is completely dark for something like an Earth Standard Year at a time...while the South Pole bakes for the same period...

If any of you are interested in trying it out, I'll send the *.ssc that I have done so far...

Anyway, the tilt in relation to the star vs. tilt in relation to the GG isn't what I find so unbelievable about that particular setup... it's that Yori seems to have a *ridiculously* low orbital eccentricity around Dectura for a capture... I mean, it would seem like...for every 100 instances of "interstellar gravel" you throw at that gravity well, most of it would just get a course change and be sent on it's way, and some small percentage would wind up in some sort of orbit, but that the ONE piece of *important* real estate winds up in a nearly circular orbit around the GG? Puh-Lease.
 
Looks cool...

You might want to shift the text over to the right a bit though (if you can, that is), it's getting a bit hard to read in the blue/whites of the planet.
 
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