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The concept is that a scout unit in my alternate Traveller universe made contact with an alien culture using such a reference system. The merchants breaking into the early trade opportunities will have to wrestle with this new navigational notation.
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Originally posted by TheRaptor:
Astrography...location is xxxx ring/ray yyyyy....
Originally posted by The Mink:
Any highschool book should give you distance equations for polar co-ordinates.
Okay. Now I see how evil I could be, as influenced by 'The Mink'. Still I'm trying to work out something plausible but alien to the characters. Perhaps I'll have to dump the hex grid once and for all and go back to the (x,y) point notation. (But in base 36--gotta keep it close to the D6 don't I?Originally posted by The Mink:
If you want to make life hard for them, convert to a different base (base 13 for example) and give them the answers in "Characters" rather than actual numbers.
And herewith the examples:I Originally posted:
I have to run out the door; look for another message in a couple or three hours with some examples.