Re: Stars (was: RE: [OFFICIAL] Background thoughts(Size of

 Alan E & Carmel J Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>Wrote:

> EPICS: Self-Guided Wilderness Tours wrote:
> > 
> > >@:) I understand there are around 70,000 stars within 200 LY of the
> > >@:) Solar System.
> 
> SPI many years ago brought out 2 space games, one a Wargame, the other
> (later) one an RPG.
> 
> "Starforce Alpha Centauri" has a hex-grid map of a radius of all stars
> about 20 LY from earth, with altitudes. So you get a 3-D map.
> 
> "Universe", the RPG, has a similar map, only on a cartesian grid, and
> with spectral classes added and out to 30 LY.
> 
> You can still buy these 2nd hand.

I'd always thought that was where the 2300 stuff came from, (I still 
own Universe, though I'm having to  get REAL careful with that map:) 
as the "life zones" and the star chart were very close matches to 
each other.
(Course TSR came out with the World Builders Guide book, which uses 
the same mapping system, they bought the rights to "Universe" so go 
figure:)

Randy
"Creative Financing is the key to any venture. Right John?"
R. Hood (Ret.)