I’m actually working on figuring out some new Arms that only use links that are shorter than 7.7 ly, and so far there are a lot of stars that can be reached like that – I’ve got many Arms going out in pretty much every direction. Most of those Arms end around 60 ly from Sol because the dimmer stars that can be used to connect them haven’t been discovered yet, but it goes to show that there are still plenty of systems that are accessible to normal stutterwarp (and also, to answer your other question, that the routing is still interesting at 7.7 ly).

If SW didn’t stick at 7.7 and 11.5, can you make better sense of the routing? That is to say, if you selected a different ‘magic number’ for the SW distance, will that remedy some of the connectivity issues without rendering other routes senseless?

That may well explain the imaginary systems.

What would be interesting would be to create an updated map that tried to not take liberties with known star data (or likely to be discovered) and that salvaged as much of the Colonial Atlas material as possible. One would have to accept some changes, but creating something sensible that could work using actual refined distances would be pretty wonderful.

I’m guessing you used Astrosynthesis for some of the above graphics. Do you have a sector file that you used during the production that you’d care to share?

Nice work, BTW. Have bookmarked this site!

Benjamin