[Arcanum]

 
(humungo FS2 spoilers, btw)






and for the grand finale:
whopping 3200x2400 lossless png goodness


All canon systems and jump nodes are represented.  A star's color represents its spectral class, and its size roughly indicates its size class: Supergiants are x4, Bright Giants x3, Giants x2, and Subgiants x1.5 the size of Sol, a yellow dwarf.  Fictional systems (Ribos, Ikeya, Laramis, Vasuda) appear in purple and are arbitrarily located except for Vasuda, which is speculatively located at Beta Hydri.

Jump node lines are current as of the end of the FS2 campaign.  Green means open, red means closed, and teal means a Knossos portal.

I might add some non-canon nodes/systems later, and I'm planning to upload the model file once I get some file conversion issues resolved.

[Unknown Target]

Wow, awesome

But you don't really need to worry about showing off FS2 spoilers on the forum. Generally everyone has played the game through at least once. But definitely very, very cool

[Ferret]

lol look at all dem fukken stars

This is a seriously awesome and having access to the model itself would be especially handy.
Now... If it was converted to a .pof, then in conjunction with the cutscene SEXP's, that could be rather interesting....

[AdmiralRalwood]

lol look at all dem fukken stars

This is a seriously awesome and having access to the model itself would be especially handy.
Now... If it was converted to a .pof, then in conjunction with the cutscene SEXP's, that could be rather interesting....

That... that is the craziest idea I have ever heard. And yet, it sounds awesome.

[Iron Wolf]

Holy crap... the crab nebula far, far away!

[Colonol Dekker]

Lol CApella reminds me of the MCP from Tron when it dies 

[Janos]

hahahahahaha that's so goddamn complicated and illogical it causes headache

pretty cool nevertheless

[S-99]

This is completely sweet. Maybe some type of implementation of this nodemap into the real game would be awesome as ****? Actually vasuda prime I think does exist, but it's just not called vasuda prime in the real world and has some other name for the star system. Worth doing a search on the forums because i'm pretty sure there was a topic about it.
I can already imagine it, the 3d nodemap in game where you see a little picture of the aquitaine traveling to delta serpentis in a mission breifing, or something else.

[Trivial Psychic]

I think that someone arbitrarily suggested that Vasuda might be called Beta Hydri, hypothetically.  That name kinda stuck, even though there is no evidence of what system it really is.

[Ace]

One thing: if the "nebula beyond Gamma Draconis" was a known nebula, it'd be named that.

Also for Tau Sigma- Sigma isn't necessarily a constellation seen from Earth

[Herra Tohtori]

Also for Tau Sigma- Sigma isn't necessarily a constellation seen from Earth

...thus it is fictional and unrecognizable. No one has proposed anything else.

Of course, there's actually a worse logical consistency in that name than Sigma not being a (known) constellation. In this particular naming system, a star's name consists of a Greek letter and the Latin genetive form of the constellation where the star is. The greek letter is usually defined so that Alpha is the brightest visible star of particular constellation, beta is next brightest and so forth. It's the still often used Bayer designation of stars.

The trouble is that Sigma is one of Greek letters as well as Tau. Tau is the 19th letter, and Sigma is 18th. Obviously it could mean that star can be found by number "1819" being it's designation - but where? There are *many* number-based star catalogues.

Anyway, IF "Sigma" was a constellation seen from eg. Beta Aquilae, the Bayer designation of the star would then be "Tau Sigmae"...


Bahh. Useless speculation. We don't know what star it is and that's it. Of course we can try and deduct where Tau Sigma could be. For example, It could be triangulated (inaccurately) to between Altair, Tania Australis and Phi Eridani... but the trouble is, subspace nodes are not the shortest way from A to B in real space, if you see my meaning. Same goes to Vasuda: It could be guesstimated to be somewhere between Antares, Alpha Centauri and Deneb. But as we know, the nodes are criss-crossing each other *badly* especially in core of the GTVA space, so this kind of designation is by no means reliable - but it is just one way to deduct locations of imaginary stars. There are other ways too.

[Fragrag]

You know, all this astronomy is just whooshing past my head.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Of course we can try and deduct where Tau Sigma could[/] be. For example, It could be triangulated (inaccurately) to between Altair, Tania Australis and Phi Eridani... but the trouble is, subspace nodes are not the shortest way from A to B in real space, if you see my meaning. Same goes to Vasuda: It could be guesstimated to be somewhere between Antares, Alpha Centauri and Deneb. But as we know, the nodes are criss-crossing each other *badly* especially in core of the GTVA space, so this kind of designation is by no means reliable - but it is just one way to deduct locations of imaginary stars. There are other ways too.

Seems somebody forgot the "i" in [/i].

[bizzybody]

The Ikeya system? So that's where all that knockdown/flatpack furniture comes from... (Yes, I know the company name is Ikea, but still...)