ShapeShifter
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I know of subsectors and sectors, but what are the higher/bigger orders of space maps in official RAW/BtB?
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Within the Imperium, 4 sectors are grouped politically into a Domain (where formally established).
Also, 4 subsectors are sometimes grouped together as quadrants.
ShapeShifter
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Nothing bigger than a Domain???
Krikkitone
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next biggest is which spiral arm / galactic core you are in. (almost the entirety of charted space is in a single arm)
Not unless you want to start defining kiloparsec hexes for mapping galactic regions. But those would not be official (but might be useful given T5/The Galaxiad and the advent of the Skip-Drive at TL-20 or so).
RogerD
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T5 suggests to me that power of ten hexes would be useful, but it is certainly nonstandard. You can use the planetary maps as a template.
kpc hexes are a good scale for a galaxy map.
A subsector with 80 1pc hexes is roughly the same size as a 10pc hex which has 75 1pc hexes, but a domain has 1280 hexes which is smaller than a 100pc hex which has 5625 1pc hexes.
This all blows up substantially in 3D but that can be made to work too.
kpc hexes are a good scale for a galaxy map.
A subsector with 80 1pc hexes is roughly the same size as a 10pc hex which has 75 1pc hexes, but a domain has 1280 hexes which is smaller than a 100pc hex which has 5625 1pc hexes.
This all blows up substantially in 3D but that can be made to work too.
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