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um... SLOWLY working on it on my spare time. I've actually completed generating the coordinates of the deep periphery worlds, but I'm not done converting the coordinates of the inner sphere systems in the Lyran section. Only about 73.88% complete so far, which is the exact same state 57 days ago

82.6377827334% done!

still have to transfer 477 sets of coordinates from the 2764 map (all from LC) and 68 from the 3063 maps that were previously in the error-filled 3130 map. If I'm able to dedicate around 5-10% a day then we should have mappable coordinates for the whole of known BT space (excluding nebulae) by middle of February, which is just perfect timing coz I'd have a business trip to Canada-US and Mexico and won't be able to put any effort into the coordinates during those two weeks.

You know what, I hate all of you and all your optimism and all your encouragement!

Okay, now that we have that out of the way, I give you 3139 sets of coordinates!

http://www.mediafire.com/Volt/Cartographer

Coordinates + Distances.xlsx = just the systems and their coordinates, with straight-line distance from a reference system
coordinates transfer.xlsx = sample of how I derived the convert the coordinates of the systems from a different scale/orientation to that of the base scale/orientation
factions.txt = faction color assignments for Bad_Syntax's cartographer app
planets.txt = the system names, coordinates and faction ownership per era for Bad_Syntax's cartographer app
systems by era.xlsx = this is the full file with system names, unified coordinates, faction ownership and regions, etc...
systems.xlsx = same as above but only shows faction ownership and whether a system is a capital, without showing the regions

The new sets of files all reflect the new [and corrected] coordinates [that 3130 map had some crazy errors], the new deep periphery systems, and a whole lot of corrections on faction ownership. Unfortunately some of those errors are reflected in BN's PDF maps. My bad.

ENJOY

Is that JPG an official map? I'd like to add that to my database soon as i get home.

I usually mark them "D" for disputed if more than one faction lays claim to them during that year (ie invasion). If it's just a raid i still count it as belonging to the defending faction.

Sorry, won't be able to check til the wife is done shopping. My problem is, i won't be able to lift the data verbatim, i'd have to look through sources to validate the map's content first, and that's what's gonna take a while.

yup, that's how it's gonna be, I guess. Which sources do I look through to get data from 68 to 72? I just realized, if I did a 68 to 72, then I'd have to read through WoR all over again to do the Clan Homeworlds side, and that's one messy data gathering for a small 40-system colony. On the other hand, it would be nice to see something between '67 and '75 and between '75 and '79.

while we're at this topic, does anyone have a clear PDF map of 3075 from Blake Documents? I've been trying to get a hold of these two pages but I completely refuse to buy the PDF, because I don't like what it was proposing as a possible outcome for the Wolverines. I've already given my book away without completely reading through it.