Interactive Stellar Map (for RoH)

[el_octogono]

I've been searching for a stellar map to help me locate and show my players the different stars and system locations. I found a nice interactive map at:  https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

 

Also this (limited) 2d map has some of the inhabited systems in RoH:

 

 

[ORtrail]

Interesting, it reminded me of playing No Man's Sky with the zoom and rotation. 

[Michael Hopcroft]

How many of those stars have habitable exoplanets (assuming there is such a thing, which I doubt)?

[Joerg]

6 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

How many of those stars have habitable exoplanets (assuming there is such a thing, which I doubt)?

This takes a couple of definitions of "habitable". Proxima Centauri B for instance lies in the habitable zone in times of normal brightness, but would be over-exposed to radiation during periods of signiicantly increased activity. However, presumably being tidally locked, the backside or the twilight zone of the planet might offer the temperature range we would deem habitable even in times of greater activity.

If you mean habitable as in having a biosphere supporting an oxygen atmosphere, probably none. Having conditions where such a biosphere could be introduced, possibly a few.

Allowing domed habitats without intensive thermal requirement - probably quite a few.

Having a planetary magnet field to ward off cosmic radiation - hardly any.

All of these at once? Probably similar to a jackpot in a lottery.

[Frank]

Thank you for the map and the link. I've been looking for a good 3d map of the stellar neighbourhood for some time. And since I've yet to find any that works well for gaming purposes, I have resigned myself to using 2d maps. For RoH I used the map found here to create this:

[ORtrail]

On 8/26/2019 at 1:34 AM, Joerg said:

This takes a couple of definitions of "habitable". Proxima Centauri B for instance lies in the habitable zone in times of normal brightness, but would be over-exposed to radiation during periods of signiicantly increased activity. However, presumably being tidally locked, the backside or the twilight zone of the planet might offer the temperature range we would deem habitable even in times of greater activity.

If you mean habitable as in having a biosphere supporting an oxygen atmosphere, probably none. Having conditions where such a biosphere could be introduced, possibly a few.

Allowing domed habitats without intensive thermal requirement - probably quite a few.

Having a planetary magnet field to ward off cosmic radiation - hardly any.

All of these at once? Probably similar to a jackpot in a lottery.

 

So... you're saying there's a chance? 

[sylvermoonkitten]

The Old Game Universe by SPI had an awesome 3d HC map, and the TRI Tac game FTL 2448 has great list of real world close systems

[ThornPlutonius]

16 hours ago, sylvermoonkitten said:

The Old Game Universe by SPI had an awesome 3d HC map, and the TRI Tac game FTL 2448 has great list of real world close systems

"HC"?  "TRI"?

Edited January 8, 2020 by ThornPlutonius

[NickMiddleton]

1 hour ago, ThornPlutonius said:

"HC"?  "TRI"?

Not sure about HC, but "TRI TAC Games" is  a company - https://www.tritacgames.com/

Cheers,

Nick

[g33k]

18 hours ago, sylvermoonkitten said:

and the TRI Tac game FTL 2448 has great list of real world close systems

I'd use Wikipedia for my research these days.

Unless TriTac has revised that list of systems, new instruments have rendered that list entirely obsolete!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_exoplanets

 

[ORtrail]

We'll all base our campaigns around exploring the Trappist-1 system and those seven exoplanets, so does it really matter?  😀

[sylvermoonkitten]

Sorry HC is a hardcopy , and TRITAC has a real world list of stars, and a %  solar system creation system .