Originally posted by Gruffty:
Okay, revised suggested plan no. 1:
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5) implement 990s border from Gateway to Destiny (? copyright issue?), (I'm assuming that's the era we're *definitely* generating for, from the results of the poll?)
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I would like to point out that the map on p46 of GTD is not circa 990, it is circa 1110. Look down to the Solomani Rim Sector on the map and you'll see the border is at its post-Rim War disposition, with Terra already inside Imperial space.
It was apparently used in GTD to provide a visual reference as to where the four sectors of GTD were located in relation to everything else.
However, the good thing is that Solomani and Hiver space does not intrude into Spica space in any way in year 1110.
I, personally, would like to continue on with these borders, as shown, exactly; i.e. no Solomani or Hiver space in Spica. Now, there can be all sorts of worlds that are sympathetic to either side, but they aren't actually worlds of either nation.
The map shows only 4 polities in Spica large enough to be seen. All four of them are on the edges of the map, extending, to one degree or another, off the map. The majority of Spica's space is either non-aligned (officially, anyway), or have extremely small polities extending to only two or three worlds. Personally, I think this is the ideal situation to work with.
The alternative would be to posit a situation where the Solomani Sphere extended an additional 40-50 parsecs to trailing and coreward in that one region . . . which all previous writing argues against, right along with an extension in Hiver space into Spica until it abutted the extension of the Solomani Sphere w/Big Extra Handle. Then, we must also posit that the entirety of these extensions collapsed completely to the obvious 1110 state. I don't really like these various suppositions much, and would rather stick to Spica as wild-open territory with lots of polities at 1-3 worlds and the few larger polities at the edges.
