User blog:Sakaros/A view of the galaxy

I recently uploaded the image to the right as part of the Golden Empire article. Although inspired by from , mine is all my work—the product of an entire weekend of MS Paint and Corel PaintShop Pro, back and forth until I was satisfied with the final effect. It took a few revisions, and it's certainly not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it.

(They say you need a hobby to stay sane in law school. This is what I came up with.  I'm not sure I'm achieving the goal.)

As I was working on it, I started thinking that others in the same boat—want a big picture of the galaxy to manipulate, but don't want the tedium/potential copyright infringement of taking the Atlas image or the extreme tedium of making their own—might find what I was working on useful for their own creations. As a result, if people would have a use for it, I'd be happy to upload my original template image and allow others to use it for their own empires' and conflicts' maps. The template looks basically the same, except:
 * No highlight of Golden Empire territory
 * Quadrant B2 is white and has the five item templates for copy/pasting
 * Major planet (e.g., F-8)
 * Minor planet (e.g., L-18)
 * Destroyed major planet (e.g., M-10)
 * Destroyed minor planet (e.g., K-11)
 * Astronomical phenomena (e.g., T-10)

I can also remove Mezlagob, Kizav, and Shest Minor (the three worlds from my work that I included on the map, all in and around E-10) so others would have a "canon-only" canvas in which to add their own planets, territories, battles, etc. Everything on the map is as correctly placed as I could make it.

If you'd have a use for the this, drop a comment below. If you have no use for it, or think I'm presumptuous for suggesting it, or think I really need to find better things to do with my time...well, I'll just be over here, then.

Sakaros Talk 02:19, September 15, 2014 (UTC)