Re: [FT] Fleet Thrust

Michael Brown wrote:
> 
> Laserlight wrote:
> B.  Planets and colonies will consist of a number of Planetary
> hexes.  Earth-sized planets will have seven hexes; settlements
> on smaller bodies (down to and including one hex) are also
> permissible.	Note that not all planetary hexes need be
> habitable,
> e.g. may be occupied by ocean.
> [ why not 14 hexes, seven for each hemisphere? This was used in an OLD
variant
> for Imperium. JTAS #1 I think]

6 works well if the "hexes" are actually Pentagons. This way you can
fasten the 2 hemispheres together to make a dodecahedron, a reasonable
approximation to a sphere.

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