Re: Other Solar Sys maps Re: Strategic Thrust using BR25
From: devans@u...
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:55:22 -0600
Subject: Re: Other Solar Sys maps Re: Strategic Thrust using BR25
Donald Hosford sed:
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A sudden thought...
Take a large piece of paper, and put the star in the middle, and then
draw rings
around it. One ring for each planetary orbit, out to say 10-15. Make
the rings
about 3/4 inch apart. Then place planet counters on the orbit rings.
The whole
map
would be about 23 inches across.
This is highly abstracted, but would be a workable one map solution...
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With little tic marks around each circle indicating orbit distance
traveled in,
say,
a month, lots of tics on the outer rings, fewer and fewer as you move
inward
indicating
the faster moving inner orbits...
You've seen BattleFleet Mars, then? ;->= However, they used a measure
stick for
actual movement, and given the already mentioned vastly different
distances
between
inner, iron planets and outer, gas ones, not terribly realistic.
The_Beast