Sectors in publications...

[Flynn]

Good morning, All,

One of my favorite resources for checking on canonical sector information is the following page:
http://winterwar.prairienet.org/dmckinne/sector.html

Donald McKinney's work is muchly appreciated.

I have noticed, however, that it hasn't been updated since 03/15/2001. It doesn't include references to T20's 993 Era, nor does it include the following:

Gateway: Full sector details in Gateway To Destiny (993).
Ley: Full sector details in Gateway To Destiny (993).
Crucis Margin: Full sector details in Gateway To Destiny (993).
Glimmerdrift Reaches: Full sector details in Gateway To Destiny (993).

I'd like to update this, if I can, and either host it or pass it on to Donald for reposting on his website.

If you are aware of anything else that needs to be listed here, please let me know. This list only covers publications sanctioned by Marc W. Miller, and does not cover personal websites or publications still in playtest. (Otherwise, we'd have to add the full sector details for Gushemege, Dagudashaag, Ilelish and Zarushagar that will be coming out in TNE:1248, Bearers of the Flame.)

I appreciate it,
Flynn

 

[RainOfSteel]

I've emailed back and forth once with Mr. McKinney back in late 2001 (just found the email, response back was 10/29/2001). Haven't tried to contact him since then.

What you really want to look at is the homepage for the site:

http://winterwar.prairienet.org/dmckinne/trav.html

There is an outstanding outline to a fantastic M0 campaign here, which I've boosted many a time before: The Iridium Throne

Personally, I take this outline as the majority foundation of the Imperium IMTU.


Oh, the assembled timeline of Traveller is hardly a small accomplishment, either.

 

[Flynn]

He's on the COTI boards from time to time, actually. Last I saw him actively was probably a year ago, but I'm sure he still sneaks in and posts when he can.

Yeah, he's done some amazing work in gathering and supporting OTU canon. If there were an award for that, I'd love to see him get it.

Enjoy,
Flynn

 

[RainOfSteel]

If we knew what his CID was, Hunter could give him the title, "Timelord,"

 

[Flynn]

If it helps, his CID is "DonM". Personally, I'm all for First Historian or something like that.

In Service,
Flynn

 

[RainOfSteel]

Ok, I've looked him up. Last post was July 22, 2002. He only posted 23 times.

Gah! If only all the proliferate fans of eld would but return to fold . . .

 

[DonM]

My problem has always been, if I'm not actively running a Traveller campaign, it falls down lower on my list.

But I'm still around, and willing to update both the timeline and the map list.

I should dust off a campaign or something...

 

[DonM]

I really am going to try to update that page this weekend...

 

[Plankowner]

I just read the M0 outline and it really sounds great. I hope you keep working on it.

 

[inexorabletash]

In case no-one noticed, Don updated his Sector Info page yesterday - yay!

(One more addition needs to be made: full sector data for CT Corridor in FFE04)

 

[Pickles]

Nice one, Don!

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
If we knew what his CID was, Hunter could give him the title, "Timelord,"

according to his post, his CID is 30...

 

[DonM]

I'm holding off on that Corridor entry because I know I've got an original Memory Alpha around here, and I want to verify that first.

The M0 notes: I really should dust that off. I wanted to play Cecil Rhodes meets Lawrence of Arabia in space for M0, and the designers appear to have had Adam Smith meets McHales Navy more in mind.

Guess it's a roleplaying style thing. I was just thinking that the EPIC format would work well for my old M0 notes. I'll add that to the pile of Traveller projects untouched...

And Hello! It's nice to know my old work has been much appreciated and used, and I'm working to remove some of the dust. Had to bring the timeline database up to Access 2003 to load it

 

[DonM]

Ok, so I had a vacation day, and had found a partially updated sector page, so I've spent a couple of hours updating the page again.

It's now about double the size, but it's still text, as my HTML knowledge is really limited to table-column-paste. Come on -- I use VI as my html editor (as if most people would even know what that is anymore...).

So, please check it out!

 

[Hyphen]

Dear Don -

Is that this page?

It says "updated 03/15/2001"?

 

[inexorabletash]

Try:

http://winterwar.prairienet.org/dmckinne/sector.html

(But Don might want to fix the www... one somehow.)

 

[Hyphen]

Dear Folks -

Ah! That looks better.

I was following Don's "homepage" link in his CotI postings - maybe that's what should be changed.

And now for a real question:
Don, is there much of a difference between the Corridor details in Memory Alpha and TD #18?

 

[DonM]

Wow - the old website was gone; the account isn't even supposed to exist. I'll let our admins know, because I don't have a dmckinne account there anymore.

I have, in an event of gross stupidity, allowed my personal copy of the 1984 print of Memory Alpha to disappear.

My memory tells me that it had pieces of Corridor in it, but NOT the entire sector. But I cannot prove that at the moment

I hope the new page has better info...

 

[Peter Newman]

Memory Alpha was reprinted in 'The Short Adventures' (FFE 004). It seems to have all the UPP's & the sector map, (2 versions) but no planetary library data.

Some of the library data from TD 18 was kind of cool too. For instance the Imperium has a storage facility for all the weird stuff at the Imperial Research Station on a planet out in the rift. I imagine it being somewhat like the last scene in 'Indiana Jones' where the Ark of the Covenant is sealed up into a crate in a great big warehouse room.

 

[jrients]

If I recall correctly the Memory Alpha in FFE 04 is a reconstruction based upon data generated later than the original run of the module. If Don can dig up his copy of the original there may be many differences between the two.