Map of Entire Star Wars Universe Better Than GPS
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Lost a planet Wandrecanada has, how embarassing...Wandrecanada said:
On a less comical note. I have a poster of the Star Wars galaxy/universe, that looks better than this. I'm not sure if its as detailed or accurate (it came from a weekly collectible magazine called the Star Wars Fact Files) but I like it better cuz its prettier.
While its nice to see someone has tried the maps just full of errors. Every Expanded Universe novel comes with a map and actually comparing this to that map there are some omissions.
Such as-
-The entire Hapes Consortium. That cluster has at least 200 populated worlds in it and four of them played major roles in the books.
-Yevethan space within the Koornacht Cluster, between the deep core and the unknown regions. Probably omitted because they were wiped out.
-Ithor 'galactic north' of Corusant. That world was decimated. Not destroyed but nothings going to undo what happened there.
-Zonama Sekot. Is not a plannet.
-Corusant should be located further from the unknown regions.
-Not certain, but im pretty sure the entire Imperial Remmenant has been misplaced.
If anyone cares enough for an elaboration, I dont.
Such as-
-The entire Hapes Consortium. That cluster has at least 200 populated worlds in it and four of them played major roles in the books.
-Yevethan space within the Koornacht Cluster, between the deep core and the unknown regions. Probably omitted because they were wiped out.
-Ithor 'galactic north' of Corusant. That world was decimated. Not destroyed but nothings going to undo what happened there.
-Zonama Sekot. Is not a plannet.
-Corusant should be located further from the unknown regions.
-Not certain, but im pretty sure the entire Imperial Remmenant has been misplaced.
If anyone cares enough for an elaboration, I dont.
This is just a long line of "Essential Guides" that are updated every few years. I personally owned "Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels", "Essential Guide to Characters", and the old version of this, "Essential guide to Planets and Moons".
Yeah this map is almost horrifically incomplete. I've seen better and more complete and accurate fan-made maps than that image.
/Encyclopedic Star Wars Nerd
/Encyclopedic Star Wars Nerd
Spiral Galaxies are mainly flat (at least the non-dark matter bits) and so you really only need a 3d-map if you are trying to catalogue all of the stars in the galaxy, but for the few of interest the chance of any being essential above/below each other is slim at best. Also you can fix a west relative to the galaxy as a whole. We have have a west on Earth but Earth is spinning while orbiting the Sun while orbiting the centre of the milky way.Exterminas said:
Considering that the Milky way is 100,000 light years in diameter, but only 1000 light years thick at the thickest part I don't really see much of a problem representing a galaxy with a top down view.Exterminas said:
It takes more then 250 million years for the galaxy to rotate. You're still going to be in pretty much the same place tomorrow. Besides, it wouldn't matter if it is rotating anyway since you don't have to use other galaxies to pinpoint west for you, it just needs to be an arbitrary direction, and with the entire galaxy rotating everything is going to be in relatively the same place at any time anyway.
Peragus and Malachor V were destroyed. The Essential Atlas was supposedly written after 140 ABY, after the events of Star Wars Legacy. It was made way after the movies and even later than the KOTOR games.razor343 said:
According to current canon, much of Mandalore is a nuked out desert. The New Mandalorians, a pacifist organization headed by Duchess Satine are stationed there as of the Clone Wars.HankMan said:
Remnants of the True Mandalorians and the Death Watch splinter factions live in the Northern Hemisphere, which has large reserves of Beskar Iron, where much of their economy stems from. Their capital is a small fortress town called Keldabe. Much of this part of the planet was enslaved during Imperial Occupation, while Fenn Shysa and Tobi Dala ran a Mandalorian Resistance.
The Planet has a moon called Concordia, which is under Death Watch Control. Other planets like Concord Dawn are in the Mandalore sector, and are inhabited by Mandalorian colonists and their neighbours the Journeyman Protectors.
I know there's probably an answer to this and I don't even really care, but why is Dagobah on a trade route?
Looking at this...I'm actually surprised to see it's actually less detailed, being that such a huge company as Lucasfilm made it, as compared to the Galactic star map FASA made for Battletech/MechWarrior.
I'm also surprised to see how small the Star Wars universe actually is. I'd have thought, with all of the side stories they wrote, it'd have been much larger.
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I'm also surprised to see how small the Star Wars universe actually is. I'd have thought, with all of the side stories they wrote, it'd have been much larger.
It's for the sake of convenience. Keep in mind this is a soft sci fi story about space samurais and ships that can violate the laws of physics as we know it.Exterminas said:
Well, that map is all kinds of weird. The planets are definitely placed different than compared to Empire at War. Empire at War had Korriban closer to the core than Yavin was, Coruscant should be as close if not closer than Byss is in the Deep Core.
I don't know, maybe Yoda was balancing the galaxy with his mind, fell asleep, and it all got jumbled up.
I don't know, maybe Yoda was balancing the galaxy with his mind, fell asleep, and it all got jumbled up.