Miniature Rules
Inter Stellar Geographic Society
On the Classic Battletech forums, which we here really recommend you check out
for all your CBT needs, I got involved with the Solaris VII play-by-post role
playing game. One of the big problems I noticed whilst lurking about was that
no one knew where anything was, except for the one guy who still had a copy of
the Solaris City map. Things would hang or get retconned because people just
couldn't tell Thor's Sheildhall from the Grateful Burger. Something had to be
done.
Enter yours truly. Playing around with layers in Illustrator, and reading about
GIS systems in the National Geographic atlas, it struck me that with some careful
planning and some scans of old sourcebooks, I could redo these maps and make
them even more useful by putting on a guide to locations, street names that
could turn off or on, and a decent overview of the sectors. So while Alesthane
Garfield was being approved, I took the time to recreate the map.
These are the results.