Re: [OFFICIAL] Colony lists? (was:Re: Locations of Stars etc.)

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>This is very useful stuff, but I'd like to pose a couple of questions
to
>everyone on the list who is interested - responses to this may help
shape
>the way we write up the background material in future.
>

Future as in maybe getting an integrated (DS/FT/SG) campaign system?...

>1) What do we want? ("We" being the list membership, as a particularly
>enthusiastic cross-section of FT/DS/SG players). A star map/colony list
>that is as close to known astronomical data as possible, or one that
>applies a bit of artistic licence (as most SF authors do) and allows
there
>to be planets wherever they best suit the storyline? If the latter, do
we

I prefer real stars.  I'm not sure how acurate Traveller 2300's map was,
but I thought it was supposed to be pretty accurate (no flames, please,
it's been a long time, not I refer to it as Traveler 2300 and not
2300AD).
I liked that map.

>2) Of those people who use the "official" background, or a minor
>modification of it (on the assumption that those who hate the
background
>won't be interested in all this anyway!), do you actually WANT to see
it
>defined in this sort of detail, or left loose (as we have done so far)
to
>allow more freedom to come up with your own colonies, campaigns etc.?
Would

I would like to see a well defined core, a fairly well defined inner
colonies, and a couple of the "major" outworld planets (for reference).
There might be room for some undefined inner colony worlds for
individual
customization, but I think most customization would be in the outer
colonies.

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