More working on Communications routes, the Sector Grows

Re-directing the routes of the large passenger liners, and trade ships in the expansion outward from the Core Worlds.

I keep having flashes of recall to ideas I had as a kid 40 years ago before I was so influenced by the science fiction of the 80s. 

How wide open that feeling was.  I had no basis for what could be, except for the best novels I had read.

Now, detailing these maps, I feel that all of this detail will be overlooked, but I will notice, so I put it in there, and keep a good record of what the setting is to make it a standard, and not just filling in backstory as I write.

I am looking for a sense of time and place.  I want fans to escape in their imagination to this Space Opera Setting.

I envision large Bulk Freighters, traveling through the Obai Sector, from world to world, bringing exotic goods with strange names. 

The crews are a mixed lot, from many varied worlds, not all speaking a common language. 

Pirate ships lie in wait in asteroid belts, and hidden in the atmospheres of Gas Giants, waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Noble houses war with each other for territory, fighting over resource extraction worlds.

As I look at the maps I am doing now, they fit my ideas better, with each fresh change.

There are now visible projections of Republic corporate expansion along the Spinward- Rimward line of march.




Lots of lines shifting now, as I see the enormous picture for the Sector of the Aurin Cluster.

Late nights, ports shifting around

Working on clearing out all of the communications lanes in the Rimward sectors.

Moving the larger starports.

Once I get a feel for what is what, I will straighten out the jump connection lanes for a layout that seems to make sense, given the setting.

Lots of minor detail work with numbers today. Tiring after a long week.

More work on the old routes to Rimward

I thought a lot about this last night, as I was going to sleep.

The Varala Drift seems like an area that is an unexplored frontier, yet surrounded by systems to Rimward that have multiple settled colonies and major worlds?

How could this be?

So I came to the idea that in the initial push to the Rim, worlds that were prime colonization sites, clean atmosphere, water, etc, got larger populations, and huge starports. Other worlds had native populations.

I have the idea that those non-human worlds that invented their own interstellar travel technology pushed out from their own homeworlds, settling those stars around their origin worlds.

I am reworking my maps with that alien expansion in mind.

Subsector C - The Lor Worlds

The Lor worlds will be the Main Corridor to the Varala Drift.

Looking at the Subsector map, the random generation has led to major communications routes in the lines Rimward of the frontier.

I take a visual survey of the map, and move and shift a lot of the larger port worlds to Coreward, with an eye to having communication route to most worlds at the edge of the Republic with some backwater areas.... and Rimward of the Republic border, a side route to the old major port of Basa Haula, in the Varala Drift. But major shipping lines into the area stop at Varala. 

I think about having a polity that still retains the flavor in name and culture, Coreward of Basa Haula.  So that takes more shifts and changes.

Moving things around, making sure it all seems like it is fits the setting.