Is there extended system information for the Spinward Marches?

[whartung]

Has someone generated (or hand crafted) extended system information for the Spinward Marches? Is that data available anywhere? Or, well, any sector for that matter.

And by "available" I mean in some structured machine readable format.

Doesn't much matter what system was used to generate it.

Is there some remote data lake of detailed Imperial cartography (astrography?) data floating around somewhere?

 

[agorski]

And by "available" I mean in some structured machine readable format.

Ha Ha Ha...no. I did do a pretty exhaustive study of where the data exists, but it's not in machine readable form:

https://rpggeek.com/geeklist/142138/metalist-atlas-third-imperium

Maybe the Traveller Wiki? They might have an API.

 

[Fovean]

Traveller Map has extended data for pretty much everything in the Poster Maker:

https://travellermap.com/make/poster

Just select your sector from the drop down and it will provide all the raw data for every system in the sector. And then make a poster for you if you want.

Not sure if it’s in the format you’re looking for but you can at least access the raw data that way.

It uses the T5 Second Survey data so it’s canonical and updated from the original sources.

 

[Spinward Flow]

Traveller Map and Wiki have what you're looking for.

Traveller Map link
Regina system wiki link

Some systems have extended information (Regina was detailed as an example at the end of LBB6, along with Terra for reference on how to use the extended details system), but most do not. Most of the star systems in the Traveller universe have only the mainworld detailed. However, the Traveller Map does tell you how many gas giants, planetoid belts and other worlds beyond the mainworld are contained in each system. However, a few systems have additional extended info, so you kind of have to look around at each star system to check them out on the wiki.

From the Traveller Map, click on the system icon on the map to get the system info preview, which will contain a link to that system's wiki info in it.

The fact that most star systems are not extensively detailed leaves a lot of room for Referees running "local" campaigns (of a dozen or so star systems) to make up all kinds of specific details in those systems that can be set up by the Referee to support the goals and objectives of their campaign storytelling. Because those details are then campaign specific, rather than being publicly posted as canon somewhere, Players can't necessarily get spoilers on what to expect when visiting every single star system the Referee winds up using in the campaign just by "going to the source" for all the info the Referee is using. That way, you can have a highly detailed "local region" campaign that the Players then become highly familiar with as a setting (making it more "real" for them), rather than being a wide ranging sector spanning campaign that has lots of places to go with none of them being more detailed than a UWP for the mainworld.

 

[whartung]

Ha Ha Ha...no. I did do a pretty exhaustive study of where the data exists, but it's not in machine readable form

Yea, that's what I thought -- thanks.

My hope was something like how Regina is detailed on the wiki, but, as mentioned most aren't like that, and the data isn't readily machine readable -- not en masse.

For the short term, I'll just roll my own.

Thanks all!

 

[Commander Truestar]

I have done all of the Spinward Marches from the point of view of MTU.

I only do write ups of individual worlds as needed for my campaign, but some of them are also modified by my TU.