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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7407463" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Well considering how hard it is to represent systems in 3 dimensions, having wormholes gets around that, and I get to represent that on a 2 dimensional map as a flowchart, rather that have to falsely position stars on a 2-d surface, and then give each starship an FTL drive aka Jump Drive. Here the star systems are in 3 dimensions, but the wormholes connecting them have nothing to do with the actual positions of the stars in 3 dimensional space in relation to each other. If you look at the map I provided, at the bottom in the white section are a list of all the star systems that are going to be referenced, next to each star system is a three digit number, and in placing star system on the map and the list, I rolled d188 (three d10s disregarding any result above 188) so the systems are actually placed randomly, I also rolled to see how many wormholes in each system with a probability for each edge of a hex, and if the dice indicated a wormhole, I drew a line on the map connecting the two hexes. Some times I rolled the same number more than once. I went over the list to eliminate duplications, I also kept a list of those systems not used, and whenever I found a duplication, I substituted an unused system for it instead. Still their are some duplicate systems rolled after than, when I substituted all the unused system once, I just let the duplicate remain. I think I'll do something interesting for Barnard's Star where the planet Forseti is located, the link for the solsystem entry for Barnard's star says that star is coming closer to out Solar System and will reach a minimum distance of 3.8 light years in the year 11,800 CE. Wormholes as I said before can also connect across time, so how about I make this Barnard's star in that year? There are 214 humans on that planet, lets suppose it is a small settlement, and one of them has a telescope, and he just happens to look a our Solar System and he sees this:<img src="http://larryniven.net/media/ringworld1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This future Solar System is 3.8 light years away, and their are no wormholes leading to it in this time, their are wormholes that will get you to the 25th century Solar System, but not the Solar System in the year 11,800 AD which is the time, this Barnard's Star is in with wormholes connecting to it. The astronomer reported this discovery, but the only way to reach this system in order to check it out is by a slower than light starship, its possible to build a starship powered by antimatter which can reach a high fraction of the speed of light, but antimatter is extremely expensive to make, and a government can only afford to send a small starship with an experimental antimatter engine, a small crew can be hired to pilot this starship, and then go into their low berths to pass the time while the starship travels for 3.8 years to get to this future Solar System to conserve life support and food for this tiny ship, with enough antimatter to then make the return trip back to Barnard's star and report their findings, This represents a Kardashev type 2 civilization, and it presumed to be way in advance of any of the systems connected by the wormhole network. Telescopic measurements have determined via Doppler shift that this ringworld rotates once every 9 days and is 1 astronomical unit in radius and 1 million miles wide.</blockquote>

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