A mostily-automatically generated map of the Imperium

[sudnadja]

A Larger map version. The data is incorporated via API call to travellermap. I select most of the sectors except those that are very distant. From each world I take the allegiances of the world (really the hex that the world is in) and find clusters of the same allegiances, then form a region around those clusters and do a series of dilations and erosions to smooth out the border and get rid of regions that are too small to plot. Each world is plotted with a point with a size somewhat proportional to the combined absolute magnitudes of the stars in that system, that is to say, bigger points on this map represent brighter stars.

The Aslan regions are a mess - there are numerous allegiances and some of them overlap others, and that gets represented on this map. The manual part is placing the large labels, which I did to try to take inspiration from the style and position of the Seeker Gaming Systems map labels.

 

[whartung]

Very nice work @sudnadja !

 

[inexorabletash]

When mapping, Aslan allegiances need a level of interpretation. A human view of the Hierate is a homogenous empire like the Imperium, Consulate, Confederation, or Federation. In reality it's a hundred cats in a trenchcoat.

Zhodani provinces and Imperial domains need some interpretation too, but not quite as badly.

 

[kilemall]

When mapping, Aslan allegiances need a level of interpretation. A human view of the Hierate is a homogenous empire like the Imperium, Consulate, Confederation, or Federation. In reality it's a hundred cats in a trenchcoat.

Zhodani provinces and Imperial domains need some interpretation too, but not quite as badly.

Herding cats….

 

[sudnadja]

Herding cats….

And it looks like a herd of cats: Aslan hexes colored by specific allegiance. What a mess.