User talk:Graham2001
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World Entry (2017)
When you are ready, let's do a phone call and I can easily explain the confusing parts.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 11:38, 13 October 2017 (EDT)
Adding a subsector map (2016)
Use Template:InfoboxSubsector. If you read the page it has a list of parameters to the template and an example of how to use it. Copy and paste the {{InfoboxTemplate ... }} to the top of the page and replace the (for example) {Subsector Name} documentation descriptions with the actual values. For any value you don't know, leave blank. We can fill the values in later.
This won't work quite correctly because the code to select the subsector doesn't work with the far away sectors (as Traveller Maps calls them). But that's for me to fix. Use the template, and I'll fix it. Tjoneslo (talk) 07:44, 21 December 2016 (EST)
- Ah, for this to work we'll need to put in a "Precipice Sector" page with the correct coordinates using the Template:InfoboxSector, and the x of 69 and the y of -60. This should get us in the ballpark location. Tjoneslo (talk) 07:56, 21 December 2016 (EST)
- Tried that and it didn't seem to work out. I have downloaded the subsector data from TravellerMap, is there any way to generate the map by transcribing the data?Graham2001 (talk) 07:02, 23 December 2016 (EST)
- I have an (offline) map generator for subsectors. You can see an example here: Pretoria Subsector#Politics and Diplomacy : New Era. If you don't mind that map, the nice thing is we can use it to make a clickable image map too. Tjoneslo (talk) 07:42, 23 December 2016 (EST)
Morgonstjärnen 4
Two things, now that I'm catching up:
- Do we have permission to post the data from this fanzine?
- I created a {{World summary Im}} for adding these worlds. This omits the domain name.
Thomas, thank you for creating the Im file.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 19:31, 16 October 2017 (EDT)
Graham, aww shucks, thx for your kind comment. Yeah them Jaibok really deserve some love, one of the very first Big Bads that came out for Trav, when Theta B emerged back in 1980. They were covered in Grand Explorations too, a never-published DGP supplement by Mike Mikesh, that can be got in plain text format on CotI - those are my primary sources and truthfully the only written ones I actually know of.
Mavuzog itself was named and had polity borders within it, and Grand Explorations (I think, doubt it was Theta B) located and statted Vech, the Jaibok homeworld, but that was it really. So I created the sector and coded it up for Trav Map, y'know, the way you do. Honestly, everything else is pretty much head-canon. I have run everything past Marc of course, just to be sure I'm not stepping on toes or overstepping the mark or anything, and he seems to like it, so that's cool. Other folks have contributed too, and every now and again I discover weird little "easter eggs" in the sector, stuff that other folks have quietly added. Exciting!
I'm fortunate in that I can draw a little too - sometimes a piccie really is worth a thousand words, and doing an image of the Jaibok has really helped make them seem a bit more "serious".
Theta Borealis itself is, like you say, a bit of a can of worms. It really sucks, but also it is a little bit of history. An update was submitted, but we figured that anything we did would really fundamentally change the character of the sector, terrible though it is, so perhaps it was best to leave it alone and let individual referees tackle it as they prefer.
Percavid Marches
Notes eh? Now you've gotten me really intrigued!
My understanding is that the Marches are a huge swathe of territory newly occupied by the Korsumug Empire, under the leadership of one Admiral Percavid (a name that doesn't sound entirely Jaibok, y'know). The region is considered Empire territory but as yet they are unincorporated into that polity, what with the dust still kind of settling after the invasion and occupation, so I imagine the fighting isn't entirely over yet and one or two fringe worlds still might escape the clutches of Korsu domination. I dunno if there was a minor polity there before, if it was empty territory, or what. For sure I'd like to know more.
Would having page entries for the various worlds of the Marches be of any use? I'm very happy to add them but I've shied away a little as an update to the sector data was being considered, though that was almost half a decade ago, so...