I considered the position of Rigel a critical anchor point due to all the awesome adventuring possibilities in that Southeast region. Per Star Trek Maps, North and West are positive, and South and East are negative. From this, I deduced that 0.639 must be subtracted from North/South coordinates, and 1.559 must be subtracted from East/West coordinates. Thus, Star Trek Maps coordinates may be multiplied by 0.0375 to arrive at something that looks like a FASA coordinate.Īfter much trial and error, I decided to use the position of Rigel to determine how much to offset the result. Star Trek Maps gives its coordinates in parsecs, and FASA gives its coordinates in tens of parsecs. Star Trek Maps gives The Federation a stated diameter of 480 parsecs, and FASA gives The Federation a stated diameter 180 parsecs. The maps I've used for illustration purposes are from the first edition of TRADER CAPTAINS AND MERCHANT PRINCES (1983) and STAR FLEET INTELLIGENCE MANUAL (1987). They moved many systems, but, the layout is overall similar, so, you can easily port a location from one system to the other. After a lot of trial and error, I think I’ve got it. I’m working on a “conversion” formula for translating between coordinates from STAR TREK MAPS (1980) and those given in THE FEDERATION (1986) and other FASA products.
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