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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8375560" data-attributes="member: 6779310">It's canonical for the 3E setting that the average library data entry gives you the UWP as an in-setting artefact, and a paragraph or two. Seldom a full page, unless it's a capitol (subsector, sector, domain, or Capitol) The Generate program has a sector or so of astrometrics data -- size, mass, orbit shape, reference date location -- for anything bigger than about 1 km. But it doesn't include much else.Many GMs ignore the one sector element. Others make updates for local areas part of what docking fees cover at A/B/C ports.So, in my games, sitting down to look at the LD entry for a world makes Wikipedia look really in-depth. It's got at least 35 sectors worlds to cover... and not just the mainworlds, either. Each Asteroid Belt population likely has 5-20 entries... And, like the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy, it's notoriously out of date....So, when I run Traveller, Library data is only as useful as I want it to be, justifying by &quot;it's not that big a database&quot; and &quot;The entry is 30+ years old&quot;... And &quot;someone at the update center deleted all the cross-references... have fun chasing the rabbit down that rabbit-hole&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8375560, member: 6779310"] It's canonical for the 3E setting that the average library data entry gives you the UWP as an in-setting artefact, and a paragraph or two. Seldom a full page, unless it's a capitol (subsector, sector, domain, or Capitol) The Generate program has a sector or so of astrometrics data -- size, mass, orbit shape, reference date location -- for anything bigger than about 1 km. But it doesn't include much else. Many GMs ignore the one sector element. Others make updates for local areas part of what docking fees cover at A/B/C ports. So, in my games, sitting down to look at the LD entry for a world makes Wikipedia look really in-depth. It's got at least 35 sectors worlds to cover... and not just the mainworlds, either. Each Asteroid Belt population likely has 5-20 entries... And, like the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy, it's notoriously out of date.... So, when I run Traveller, Library data is only as useful as I want it to be, justifying by "it's not that big a database" and "The entry is 30+ years old"... And "someone at the update center deleted all the cross-references... have fun chasing the rabbit down that rabbit-hole" [/QUOTE]

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