Starsiege: Pleiades Overwatch

[Dragondaddy]

Made good progress this weekend on developing this campaign setting, completing the colonies for the major Pleiades star systems. Using Hipparcos satellite data also charted 250 additional stars (including many earth-like suns) within a 100 light year radius of the Pleiades. Created 3-d maps! Woot!

Charting the star systems was a real challenge! The nine major stars have eight additional stars orbiting them, Alcyone alone having having three! additional dwarfs stars in orbit around it making total darkness a very rare event due to the total suns.

For heavy metal you have Maia which burns Mercury and Manganese.

Plenty of radiation!

Most of the stars spin so fast they have thrown off a ring of fiery gas which have formed a ring around the star!

Dust clouds in Interstellar space all around...

Charted no less than 40 additional stars that make up the cluster itself (Astronomers estimate up to 3,000 + stars exist within the cluster, many obscured by the same clouds that reflect the great glow around the Super Giants!)

I think I'll be setting this from the 2442 universe. It's about 200 light years from the nearest (already published) 2442 star system.