thalassogen
SOC-12
Thanks for the hint - and online it goes!
Speaking of planetary maps, I recently upgraded from Fractal Terrains 2 to 3, but the maps come out completely different. Is there a setting that I am missing?
SectorMaker - Upload Error
Incorrect CSV data at row 270: found 19 columns, expected 18 columns
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Quick question, has the T5 had an errata applied for its sectors? P.423 lists sub-sectors alphabetically. It misses 'I'.
FT3 has a corrected fractal algorithm. So the out-put of FT2 and FT3 are not compatable. The programmer explained on the Profantasy forum. (it is back aways)
http://forum.profantasy.com/
I'm just glad the program exists to do the heavy lifting.
I don't use VI as that seems to be a special case not normally seen in the galactic disk: old low-mass main-sequence stars that seem hotter due to far lower heavy-element percentage and therefore lower opacity - more core heat coming through)
I hope you'll excuse the off-topic post, but this I found a funny coincidence. I followed your link there to learn more about this star and other types like it. As I did I began wondering if I could use it in a story, since I'm a writer. Thinking that, I ended up looking at the link in that article that shows when this star has been used in fiction. There I found something amazing: just last year a novel was written with it in that was written by none other than William H. Keith, Jr.Type VI (also called Type "sd") do occur in the galactic disk, but it is primarily because they are on long elliptic orbits about the galactic center inclined to the plane of the galaxy. So when their orbit intersects the disk twice on each orbit, you will find them. There is one in Sol's back yard - Kapteyn's Star.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapteyn's_Star