Re: [FT] Fleet Thrust

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Alan E and Carmel J Brain wrote:

> 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.

or, if you want more detail, 30 (iirc), again with some pentagons,
arranged in a geodesic sphere. for the layout, consult a football (as in
soccer) or a C60 moleule, whichever you have to hand. in fact, you can
make spheres of a variety of sizes by adding a few pentagons to a hex
grid, so you can have whatever of details you want. while this is cool
geometry, it rather misses the KISS point of Laserlight's system, so
i'll
shut up now.

tom