Saturday, July 29, 2023

Random Traveller World: Felid/Orret in Far Home

Realizing that most of my "popular" posts are Traveller posts (well, this is ostensibly a Traveller blog! I just throw everything else as well into it) I decided to do a random world map. Hit up the Traveller wiki and hot random page until a world came up, Felid. From the wiki entry:

Felid is an agricultural garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.

Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to incrementally rise barring outside forces.

It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Orret Subsector of Far Home Sector.

This world-system hosts a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.

A757746-A is the UWP, a nice class A port, a bit smaller than Earth with a thin atmosphere, 60% water and a representative democracy of about 50 million people. 

First, a world of 60% hydrographics:



Then some sort of IIS forms perhaps. Though this will sort of work. Just don't print it! Grabbed some of the info using Heaven&Earth. I still really like that program!

Anyway, a quick pure Traveller post put together with Fractal Terrains, GIMP, TravellerMap.com, the Traveller Wiki, Google Draw and Heaven & Earth. 

One of the members over at COTI wants more than a simple explanation - they wanted flavor text as well. As in - what does the world smell like and similar things. Guess I have a hard time with that since a world is never a single thing. Though smell could be omnipresent for a hellworld or something, but anything with a biome habitable by humans I would think would smell and feel different depending on where you were. And having said that - perhaps a world has a slightly higher level of methane or something, and so yes, in that case the world could smell like rotten eggs. So hmm, maybe...

Oh, and I did correct the freight part of the software - it is the number of lots, then for each lot you do the size in dTons. Still stuck on figuring out how to get it signed and all that for upload into the Android app store. They don't take personally signed apps, and while I have an app key from them, cannot figure out if that is somehow used to generate the signing certificate. I think it is, but I'll admit to getting confused over all that other than a vague idea of signing sofware. *sigh*


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