Entertaining accident: Decades ago, when Masao Okazaki was putting his Starfleet Museum site together, he assigned the name "Axolotl" to a planet orbiting Gliese 767A.

In 2019, the IAU and Mexico named the star HD 224693 "Axólotl" as part of that year's Name ExoWorlds event.

We have precedent in Star Trek for this sort of thing, thankfully, so I'm not worrying over it.

Works in progress, all, uploaded to DeviantArt a night or two ago:

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Dominion-War-Base-Map-28-March-2025-1176423191

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Coreward-From-the-Izar-Zakdorn-Line-28-Mar-2025-1176427032

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Taurus-Reach-And-Beyond-28-Mar-2025-A-1176436890

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Edge-of-Midnight-Disputed-Zone-28-Mar-2025-A-1176439292

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/RomulanZoneBaseMap-28Mar2025-A-1176456387

So a new offshoot from my Tranquility Press fanfic map projects takes me rimward in the direction of Auriga, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Orion and so forth. The Hyades, Pleiades, the spinward side of Gorn-claimed space, rimward of the Klingons...and the Delta Triangle.

Created for the first animated Trek series episode "The Time Trap", it was a region known for the same kind of mysterious disappearances as Earth's Bermuda Triangle until Jim Kirk and company went digging around in the neighbourhood and found out where some of the vanishing spacecraft of multiple star nations across the centuries had ended up.

Based on material from Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, I picked out candidates for two of the three "anchor" stars of the Triangle, and now I'm working on filling in the surrounding neighbourhood with continued help from HYGMap.space...

Noting that, aside from Bellatrix, the other two stars I chose are not necessarily locked in. I'm open to alternative candidates.

Crossed these off the to-do list today:

Gon'Cra
Deep Space 3
Starbase 514
24 Aquarii
Jod'Cor
Mivic
Huranzi
Latroci
Septimus

Made some more map progress tonight. Trying to keep sector boundaries clear in my brain, and it's tougher than usual. I'll try to post a more visual update tomorrow night.

Meanwhile, it's back to work in the morning.

Good night and good luck.

Need to make a note that this is a thing I'm working on in between everything else.

This is the story it's going to support:

https://intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/

Good night, and good luck.

I think I've got most of the key locations for Edge of Midnight nailed down. While I expect my contributions to that project to continue at a more relaxed pace now, I am stepping up efforts to support a historical fanfic work covering the Earth-Romulan War of 2156-2161: In the Raptor's Claws.

https://intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/

All but three of the Triangle region star systems from FASATrek now have host stars matched to them for Edge of Midnight purposes. The remaining three are Stork's Rest, Altharra and Passarra's Dream.

Update!



Fenris and Soroya and R'o and Deerlam and Mantiev (among others) are driving me batty!

My ego got a bit of a boost just now:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z

Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.

Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f