The symbols depicting the terrain features in this style were taken directly from the Traveller 5 draft document (Cosmographer 3 was released before T5). One of the two versions of the style depicts the world as if shown in a satellite image (while keeping the hex map aspect) and the other as a clear and simple vector abstraction, ideal for planning and hex crawling. These come in a variety of sizes, scaled to the standard UWP (Universal World Profile) designations of the Imperial Scout Service. Of course Cosmographer 3 includes templates of the classic icosahedral projection, subdivided into hexes. What would Traveller be without its world maps? Well, at least a lot less iconic. As they are much less setting-specific than the sector and subsector maps, these are useful for almost any science fiction setting beyond Traveller.
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These show the distances of the various planets and other celestial objects from their central star.Īs usual the templates are available both in a black and white vector style and a full color bitmap version (depicted here). One of the less iconic but no less useful type of maps used in Traveller are the system charts, showing the planetary orbits of a star system. Wile they can’t be automatically generated like the sector maps, you can easily copy the necessary content of the sector map over into this smaller section. Of course the smaller subsector maps are also available as templates, again both in traditional black and white (as on the left) or Cosmographer’s bitmap style. You can create such map in the bitmap style as shown on the left, or in the classical black and white print style of the published Traveller books. Watching the import and auto-generation process alone is just pure, unadulterated fun. It draws the numerical data of a selected sector from the web ( and generates a full sector map from it, including x-boat routes and allegiance codes.
Of course the matching template is there for you, if you have your own galaxy to map!Īpart from containing normal templates for Traveller’s sector maps, Cosmographer 3 also contains a very powerful data import feature. Edit it to your liking and print it as a huge poster map if you like.
But you’ll find that is not necessary – as were tempted just as much and included this map as an example among the drawings that come with Cosmographer 3. One of the signature styles of Cosmographer 3 is the big “Galaxy Map” style, and you might be tempted to recreate Travller’s huge “Charted Space” map in its beautiful blue, white and black colors. It’s sector maps and starship deckplans are iconic images of the rpg hobby and of course we had to include compatible material when we produced our science fiction add-on Cosmographer 3. Miller was the among the first science-fiction role-playing games ever published and remains a popular game to this day. Ralf | Ma| Science Fiction, scifi, starmap, starship, Traveller
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