TREK: Antares-Cerberus Reach?
Apr. 20th, 2019 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSomething else that Star Trek: Star Charts has inspired me about...and I don't think I want to discuss it on TrekBBS, because "story idea" prohibitions.
Looking at the Known Space map in the second fold-out at the back of that book...we see a 750-lightyear "sphere" with breakout "bubbles" around several stars. We are not focusing on them, but upon the coreward Beta Quadrant side, where the furthest-coreward systems tagged as Federation-affiliated are Antares - see also Memory Alpha - and Eta Lupi AKA Cerberus.
Looking back to the "core" spaces of the Federation, we see the following systems marked out along its coreward fringes:
Berengaria
Arbazan
Rhaandar/Alpha Indi
Ivor/Eta Scorpii
Norkan/Pi Hydrae
Caldos/Beta Octantis
Zakdorn
First reasonable assumption to propose: there should be networks of routes connecting Antares and Eta Lupi to each other.
(FYI: Celestia suggests the direct-line distance between them is about 160 lightyears. GAIA, JWST et al. may either confirm or correct this.)
Second reasonable assumption: there should be networks of routes connecting those two systems to each of the latter group of seven systems as well.
Third reasonable assumption: along those routes established in assumptions one and two, there will be outposts, colonies, starbases, full-member worlds and their holdings, and independent star-nations and their holdings. Yet to have been documented on any official Trek series.
I don't yet know if any of the fan fictions - text, podcast, video - have covered that part of the Orion Arm. There could be stuff hidden in Archive of Our Own, whose creators have reached these same assumptions.
Looking at the Known Space map in the second fold-out at the back of that book...we see a 750-lightyear "sphere" with breakout "bubbles" around several stars. We are not focusing on them, but upon the coreward Beta Quadrant side, where the furthest-coreward systems tagged as Federation-affiliated are Antares - see also Memory Alpha - and Eta Lupi AKA Cerberus.
Looking back to the "core" spaces of the Federation, we see the following systems marked out along its coreward fringes:
Berengaria
Arbazan
Rhaandar/Alpha Indi
Ivor/Eta Scorpii
Norkan/Pi Hydrae
Caldos/Beta Octantis
Zakdorn
First reasonable assumption to propose: there should be networks of routes connecting Antares and Eta Lupi to each other.
(FYI: Celestia suggests the direct-line distance between them is about 160 lightyears. GAIA, JWST et al. may either confirm or correct this.)
Second reasonable assumption: there should be networks of routes connecting those two systems to each of the latter group of seven systems as well.
Third reasonable assumption: along those routes established in assumptions one and two, there will be outposts, colonies, starbases, full-member worlds and their holdings, and independent star-nations and their holdings. Yet to have been documented on any official Trek series.
I don't yet know if any of the fan fictions - text, podcast, video - have covered that part of the Orion Arm. There could be stuff hidden in Archive of Our Own, whose creators have reached these same assumptions.
