Trojan Reaches book?

[daryen]

The sector file pointed to by Sigg is based on the DGP information presented in TD20 and MTJ1 and 3.

The information for the sector presented in the Third Imperium is slightly different than the information in TD20/MTJ. The direct UWP information is the same, but some of the names have been changed to remove the many "homages" Mr. Jackson originally presented. (It does need to be noted that Mr. Jackson, who published Third Imperium, also authored the TD20 treatment of the sector). The Third Imperium treatment also had many more details on the various worlds, and provided the pre-Rebellion borders.

Also, note that there are a couple of differences between the sector in TD20 and the Atlas of the Imperium. The Atlas shows a world at 0805 that is in no other source. The Atlas also shows that Floria is not hi-pop, though it is everywhere else. The other variation is the naming of Towne/Browne. (I have no idea which it is supposed to be. I generally go with Browne.)

Finally, the two subsectors shown in Adv 4 are the same as what is presented in TI/TD20/MJT. While the sense of "mystery" is only found in Adv 4, the actual UWP data is the same.

Hope that helps.

Oh, one more thing. The subsectors C, D, G, and H are also presented in the Regency Sourcebook for TNE. Its 1117 data also agrees with TD20 (with a minor mistake somewhere, I believe). Do note that GDW tried to "reform" the stellar data in the Regency Sourcebook, so there are many changes in that. However the base 1117 UWPs are the same.

 

[Cymew]

"Reform" the stellar data?

 

[daryen]

Originally posted by Cymew:
"Reform" the stellar data?

Yes, the stellar data provided for the Domain of Deneb in CT and MT were utter crap. Many habitable worlds were supposedly orbiting tiny red stars or dead white dwarves.

In TNE, they changed a significant portion of the stellar data to try and give habitable worlds a decent star to orbit around. Despite two notable exceptions (e.g. Mithril was still supposedly orbiting a white dwarf), they seem to have succeeded reasonably well.

If course, the stellar data is still crap, as there are still way too many white dwarves in the list, and there are habitable planets orbiting big stars (which are too young to have had life develop), but I will still give them credit for at least trying.

 

[Cymew]

OK, I see. A try do fix the worldgeneration by patching. I understand that thy tried. Vacuum worlds with 300 000 000 000 population and tech lvl. 2 are my personal gripe...

 

[Flynn]

I'm glad that TNE introduced officially to the mainstream world generation method (via their Collapse procedure) the concept of minimum TL required to sustain life by atmosphere type. That takes care of a lot of the TL-Atm issues for TNE UWP data.

Coming to appreciate TNE more and more,
Flynn