Million Stars

[77topaz]

I've created a "semi-Traveller" setting called Million Stars.
Some aspects are the same, but some aspects, such as travel*, are rather different.
Here's a link: http://millionstars.wikia.com/wiki/Million_Stars_Wiki
Note: the wiki is empty as of yet. The main map for the setting is in a Hexographer file, but apparently my account here is not allowed to post attachments. The only person who appears to have noticed it as yet seems to be a spammer.

*bodies within a system are specified as separate hexes, with a system being the size of a small polity/a cluster. A jump between these takes 1 day. There are also portals along fixed routes which also take one day to use but travel longer distances.

 

[77topaz]

Anyone interested?

Could anyone help with fleshing out the jump-transport-system?

 

[mike wightman]

Did you ever play the Microsoft game Freelancer?

The ship movement system in that game was really interesting.

A normal space drive, a system of portals that moved you around a system really quickly, and jump points/gates to transfer you from system to system

 

[Antony]

Quite liked Freelancer though the interplanetary system of transport did ignore planetary movement, simplified coding I expect. It had many potential plot lines in it which you could not follow but still a lote of fun.

 

[77topaz]

The system does kind-of ignore planetary movement... well, if it didn't, maps would become obsolete after just a few weeks, considering that all bodies will move at different speeds and exact configurations only repeat, say, once in a thousand years, being optimistic?