It's A Small World After All!

Coolpikaaa · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:10 am Post subject: It's A Small World After All!

Howdy Dojoians!

DP and I have been talking, and eventually decied it would just be best if you had to whole thing now rather than try to piece together all the darkened bits.

So without any further Ado, I present the (in full!) Blackstar World Map!

I'm sure you guys will immediately see new areas you didn't know existed. If you guys could explore them, maybe something cool would happen. Just sayin' Very Happy

Also, and don't forget we have Embri to thank for the artwork in the first place! May our thanks find her wherever she may be.

-CP

Coolpikaaa · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:26 am Post subject:

And Now for some fun facts!

If you count 20 pixels as the 100 km indicated in the map, The Planet Blackstar has an equator of 15880 km.

That is about 9867 miles for you Imperial Types!

Therefore, Blackstar as a whole is only about 40% the size of Earth, and is even dwarfed by the Moon. Neat huh?

I guess it really is a small world after all!

LordPsycho · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:39 am Post subject:

Just a note, me and Embri talked at length about almost every aspect of this map, including scale and size. The way I figure it, this world is smaller, but made of denser material, so that the gravity is still about equal to that of earth. acceleration due to gravity is still 9.8 meters per second per second (m/s^2). For the Imperials, that's 32 ft/s^2. But when doing physics I prefer metric. Not sure why...

Borg12345 · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 36

I must say that's a brilliant map, lots of lovely detailed art there. Cookies and thanks go to Embri.

Danikat · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:56 am Post subject:

It's nice to see the entire thing made public at last. It's amazing artwork and it always seemed a shame that so much was blacked out. I don't know about anyone else but knowing what's out there to be explored makes me more eager to get there as well. Like that island off to the east.

I'm not sure if it's already linked to somewhere but Embri also created an amazing view of Blackstar from space:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/aurorel/WorldRender.jpg
That's a small version, the original is much bigger.

3kul · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:34 am Post subject:

Wow, so awesome! A huge thanks to everybody involved, both in creating the map as well as unveiling the rest of it to us, the efforts that you've all gone to are really appreciated.

It's a bit odd to feel so excited about a map, but still... Very Happy

!

Danikat · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:00 am Post subject:

Raven · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject:

It makes me really happy that even though Embri isn't around anymore, we're still seeing new bits of her hard work. I miss her.

Onto the map, it's awesome! I'm quite curious how far one could go in those icy tundras to the north. Wink

Perhaps someday an expedition will be formed. Razz