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

> Alternately, you can check out the Near Star List in 2300 AD, which
> lists all stars within 50 ly of Sol, and (if you buy the Kafer
> sourcebook) 25 ly (I think) of the Kafer homeworld.  (There's a good
bit
> of overlap in there, though.)  All in all there are roughly 750 stars
> listed there... it's based off the second edition of the Gliese Star
> Catalog, IIRC, and some of the data changed in the third edition, but
> what the heck.

There is a brand new updated version of the 2300 near star list on 
this web site.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~stevena/2300gg2.htm

Imperial Starfire had some ideas for the creation of star systems and 
planets.  There was even a program out there which could generate the 
systems and store them.  I can't remember the web address.  I do 
remember it was Matthew Seidls site though.
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Dublin Institute of Technology,
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