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On morning break from work at the moment.

Still moving along in fits and starts, night by night. My spreadsheet of star lists is running to 22 "sheets" in the "notebook" now.

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Here's what I have as of this morning:

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Again: The Edge of Midnight, if you're interested in what inspired this.
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LP 552-46 as the candidate host-star.

If you're wondering where to find it:

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=10127957&select_center=1

Needed something close to where the Federation, Klingons and Romulans share a border. Somewhere that was relatively obscure in any case.

More later...
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May as well show it off here. It's a week old, and still...

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I got a bit of fannish satisfaction today. This is a thing I've been working on the last few months.

https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/stellar-cartography.html

Not done yet, of course.

Good night and good luck.
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Two more systems nailed down. Maybe three. Not sure right now.

I'll try to remember to upload an update to Flickr or DeviantArt or ArtStation tomorrow morning, if nothing goes awry.
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So I was looking at maps of the FASA-Trek roleplaying game as well as Memory Beta entries today while I job-searched. Had a thought about where Starbase 20 might be in a map that tries to fit FASA's Triangle region into a largely-Mandel-compliant design...

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-26-at-7-21-31-PM-990589585
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I finally started to solve a puzzle I'd set up for myself in my Edge of Midnight project tonight. I'll try to share what I did tomorrow at some point.

ArtStation

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So I've started setting up a presence there.

https://www.artstation.com/dwightwilliams-ottawa
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I haven't forgotten that project we discussed a few days ago, and am actively looking for resources/tutorials to build one with.
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Trying to find a real B-class star where Korinar was marked off as being is...difficult.

More on this tomorrow, possibly.
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For a sense of what I've been doing:

https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/110897185618929509

It's fun, digging through HYGMap, SIMBAD, Memory Alpha, Memory Beta, and a few other sites as well for this stuff.
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Yes, this is for the Edge of Darkness project.

Right now, I'm re-reading Star Charts and Stellar Cartography

1. GJ 3414
2. HD 10226

The latter is 150+ ly below "galactic equatorial". The former is 21 ly above it.

Other considerations for my choice?

Needs to be close to the core systems because of events in the DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight" where Betazed is taken by Dominion forces. Quoting Memory Alpha: "With Betazed captured, other nearby worlds, including Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri, and Andor, were at risk of Dominion attack."

(If you've got those systems within striking distance, Sol's in range, too, right?)

Also, it needs to be on the "roads" between those systems and Bajor/Cardassia's neighbourhood, which is roughly 100 ly above "galactic equatorial". If you look up from Earth towards the Ursa Major-Draco constellation border with a strong enough telescope, you should see the alleged home stars of those planets.
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Okay, so I've been having fun reading this serialised Star Trek-linked fan-fiction dressed up as a history book called Edge of Midnight by John Concagh AKA "Seamus Devenish". So much so that I've started working on a "base map" to show his version of the affected regions of the Federation-Klingon border.

If you're interested in keeping an eye on my progress and you're not already on the relevant Discord or Facebook pages, I've got a thread running over at the Affinity forums, since Affinity Designer is what I'm using for this project.
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Okay. Now I have QGIS on my new-ish Mac Mini, and I've started downloading Shapefile data because that seems to be a thing you do when you have GIS software that you intend to use. Some of you are on my friendlist because you've provided insights on map design over the years, and I am wondering what else I should be looking at and looking for. This is a hobby of mine that seems to have made me slightly more useful in my most recent day job, which I consider a good thing. I want to keep building on that.
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Does anyone remember any scheduled short-run connections that I should be adding to this one?

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Yes, I'm switching over to Affinity Designer or Inkscape from Adobe CS4 from here onwards.

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