Hey Exhack I sent the e-mail to Fay to look over this...

Overall I am think you did an awesome job with the Mist Nebula, however, if I have time, I would like to help you do some of the background stuff for the Freehold Frontier... you know maybe something more than functional eye candy among other things.

Because nothing can be approved without a wiki article...
http://stararmy.com/wiki/doku.php?id=gu ... map_system

Fred, about the FTL Deadzones in the KMS...I do want to remove them but not necessarily right now. If I remove them, that would end the NMX's blockade.

I'd suggest a gimmick to ensure the blockade would still function, then.

Before you standardized interdiction field systems, I had gone and established that somehow the SMX Flagship was capable of using a much more powerful anti-FTL field that had a 1 light year radius.

Given that, perhaps you could bring up a new piece of technology (Gravity Well Generator?) that could be used for story purposes to accomplish the same effect as your dead FTL zones. These emplacements would - at least - be non-permanent and they could in time be removed.

The NMX blockade need not necessarily be absolute to be effective. As long as ships are significantly slowed enough either by the nebula surrounding the KMS or those emplacements, the NMX would have time to fold to the location of the people trying to cross to intercept and destroy them.

Hybrid KMS map (WIP)

http://stararmy.com/wiki/lib/exe/fetch. ... ry_wip.png

How is this thing rolling along? There haven't been any updates to this thread in a while.

Honestly, I wish I could draw as good as Wes or Exhack however, I cannot instead I am good at only a few things ... or minor things like tables.
http://piratepad.net/6yVjHk0fNR

• Kai wants, "I don't mind, really. so long as there's a Nebula between Dawn and the Mishhu, and Dawn is close to it.". Honestly, I should the WIP picture of Kai system has the nebula coming up right to the asteroid belt of the system; however, I am willing to get change so the it matches the new map and how you interpreted what Kai wants.
• Raz note " Nothing really belongs to anybody, as far as I understand it. They are just features on a map and are first come, first serve. As long as you post plans about it whatever". Honestly, I felt I have to agree with him on this will always be a truelly free terrority, that will never be under one plot-ships control. Instead I want the map to be shared between the three... or later four, etc.. plotships (not just nations) in this system.
• I have not heard back from Fay. As I talked about in the past, I was one of key people who push for Azorea to be place that its in. Honestly, I was naive of how race interaction worked in SARP back then; I didn't realize how much. I don't want this map change to repeat the mistakes of the last one where Azorea physical distance from other factions became so great that it has of metaphysical or plot rift between Azorea and the other factions.

I hope this makes things clearer Exhack and explains what raz/Kai want and why its hard before me to make a clear cut decision about what the Azoreans need/want without Fay.

Also to Soresu and SSharp, I posted above something I meant to post months ago. Over the past few months, I suspect that Exhack has already started to address some of my orginal concerns and what Kai and raz wanted

These two pages are done as far as the map.

Saiki Cluster - Home to the 2XF (Current)

Bard Cluster - Home to the 4SF (The 4SF and the Bard Cluster systems are in the process of being updated. So that is an ongoing effort.)

Both pages have a smallish version of the map that when clicked opens the full image.

I also included graphic images to clearly indicate Star Fortress Locations.

Any Updates on this Exhack?

Dusk,

I believe most of the effort is now in the hands of the Faction Managers and Exhack already provided the new 'clusters' so they could be updated.