With a HARTWELL StarSystem Map you can navigate the known universe as easily as you would your own planet HARTWELL STARMAPS uses the exclusive TORWELL FORMAT © Flat Grid Display to avoid Information Overload
Only the most adventurous and curious begin with the MILKY WAY GALAXY view Others start with the WESTERN SPIRAL ARM grid, an image sent back by high speed TACH PIP transmitted from the TELSTAR 2400 LIGHT PROBE currently 7,000 standard Light Years above the Galactic Plane and RISING! It's best to begin with the FIRST CIRCLE where you can see how the Hartwell New EARTH catalog system is laid out over ALLIANCE territory. Or zoom in on LOCAL SPACE where New EUROPE, New RUSSIA, New CANADA and the New ARCTIC regions meet the MEGANITE EMPIRE
Others start with the WESTERN SPIRAL ARM grid, an image sent back by high speed TACH PIP transmitted from the TELSTAR 2400 LIGHT PROBE currently 7,000 standard Light Years above the Galactic Plane and RISING!
It's best to begin with the FIRST CIRCLE where you can see how the Hartwell New EARTH catalog system is laid out over ALLIANCE territory.
Or zoom in on LOCAL SPACE where New EUROPE, New RUSSIA, New CANADA and the New ARCTIC regions meet the MEGANITE EMPIRE
GETTING FAMILIAR
The FIRST CIRCLE:
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In establishing the FIRST CIRCLE and the New EARTH Starmap breakdown HARTWELL first looked at the stars in what was then the MEG WAR THEATRE. Working on the idea that the average person could not possibly tell that DM-40 2126 was 30 standard light years from DM-40 2125 HARTWELL knew that a friendlier system was required. It was HARTWELL Graphics Designer Pauls Ebberedy, while helping his daughter with her science homework, who realized that the theorectical SuperContinent PANGAEA may provide the answer. The PANGAEA model (Earth 270 Million terran years ago) had all the current continents of that planet fit together into one mass. A mass which as a map roughly overlaid on an topographic view of the Local Space Star Chart fit almost perfectly. Ebberedy then assigned each STAR SYSTEM with the name of an Earth City that was nearest in positioo on the PANGAEA Model to the FIRST CIRCLE Starchart. The result is that Earth's system SOL was roughly equivalent to the position of London EUROPE, Topanga feel near to Schefferville Quebec CANADA and Dullea fell near Vogograd RUSSIA. With some jostling and a more than a few judgement calls the Stars were laid out and then grouped and cataloged on this new system. Since it's creation HARTWELL Star Charts have proven themselves to be surprisingly simple to use and with only a few adjustments made (to cordon off QUIN'DAX Space neatly in the New CARRIBEAN) has held up so well that on the formation of the UNITED ALLIANCE the HARTWELL STARMAP system was officially adopted after being unofficially in use for almost a decade. HARTWELL has further cataloged the space beyond the UA Eastern Exploration Zone and UA Western Exploration Zone. UAEEZ have been named after cities on TOPANGA while those in the UAWEZ have been named after DULLEAN cities. Now anyone with some familiarity of Earth's geography can tell that New TOKYO is quite a distance away from New NEW YORK without even having to look it up.
RETURN TO TOP Once you have selected the Star System you wish to visit then the SYSTEM GRID is shown Here each of the planets are displayed. With simple color coding anyone at a glance knows what is safe and what isn't Green=Safe, Life supporting world Yellow=Artificial Environment required Red=Hazzardous region to all ships Light Blue=Artificial environment SPACE STATION/STAR BASE
Further used is the GINSANG Table or Environmental INDEX rating the destination. Sampling in jumps of Five categories on the INDEX from:
A (safest, no protection required), E (safe, weather shelter probably necessary), I (extreme limits of human tolerance without protection), M (spacesuits required, moderate duration exposure), Q (spacesuits required, limited duration allowable, Vehicular protection recommended), U (extreme limits of EVA tolerance, Vehicular protection required), Y (extreme limits of Vehicular tolerance), Z (unsurvivable conditions)
Finally the Ginsang C-G PLANET DISPLAY, showing the Life supporting world. Each planet is shown three ways, first the TOPOGRPHICAL dislay with longitudal markers, then both LEEWARD and WINDWARD display showing both sides of the world, the side currently facing away from it's Sun and the side facing into it's Sun. Finally there is color coding here as well: GREEN=Moderate range territory, ORANNGE=Dry range territory, LIGHT BLUE=Cold range territory, DARK BLUE=Water, Oceans, etc RETURN TO TOP
