Re: Just how big is "known space"?

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> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Just how big is "known space"?
> People do read your stuff, Ben. When you recently said you had been away
> for
> a couple of years, you were not telling the truth as you posted your Elven
> Crown Bases last February.

[Ben Wafer] Well, OK, technically that's true, I have briefly surfaced a
couple of times... Still, I haven't exactly been an active participant of
the list for a couple of years. Not like I used to be, anyway.

> BTW: Loved your Elven Crown Bases, but you should have put a garden into
> the
> middle of the ring to generate air and to help the elves keep in touch
> with
> nature. I also think that using plants to build the platform between the
> ships, would have explained the time taken to assemble them. If you used
> some sort of "tamed infinity vine" then the elves could be to blame for
> spreading the agressive version across wildspace.

[Ben Wafer] Thanks, and you know what, you're right. They should have a
central garden, and the platform between the ships should be grown. Or at
the least, the citadel components should be held together and supported by
infinity vine. All it would take is a charm plants spell to get it to grow
where you want, and stop when you want it to stop. Of course, if a part of
it was cut off and drifted away, that part wouldn't be charmed any more,
hence the spread of infinity vine throughout the spheres. Yeah, that's
definitely a good idea David!

> Hmm. Making the Geonomicon a book about the Frontier is an interesting
> concept. Like you say, that means that the worlds of "known space" would
> need to be in another book (or books).
> 
> After reading both the Seekers Library postfest and the Celestian
> postfest,

[Ben Wafer] See, I missed both of those postfests, so I must have been gone
for a while ;-)

> I came up with an idea that could have worked for either of them, but was
> too late and I decided to use it for something else I was working on. But
> it
> is appropriate to this discussion, so here goes:
> 
> "The Celestian's Almanac is a book produced by the Church of Celestian.
> The
> church produces one edition of the book per crystal sphere. Each is filled
> with detailed information that allows a navigator to predict the movement
> of
> the planets and constellations within the sphere for the next few years.
> Each edition of the Celestian's Almanac also provides very basic
> information
> on the societies found on the worlds within the crystal sphere."
> 
> (Taken from the introduction to "The Celestian's Almanac of Krynnspace".)

[Ben Wafer] I like it! It's very fitting.

> Thanks for the list. I wouldn't include Clusterspace, but the rest look
> good.

[Ben Wafer] Actually you're probably right, it probably shouldn't be
included in Known Space.
 
> I'm all for including well made spheres to the list and HackJammer is a
> professional product.
> 
> I made a fan version of Fungospace a year or two ago. I thought I posted
> it.
> I'll post it again separately.

[Ben Wafer] Awesome! You might have posted it to the list and I might have
just missed it while I was away. I'm looking forward to seeing it!

> I need to read up on most of these too. I don't think we need a definitive
> list at this point. We can put spheres in or out of "known space" as we
> build up the new SJCS.

[Ben Wafer] Agreed.

> Paul is "the man" and so is Adam. If Paul was into 3rd edition, we would
> probably have a working 3e SJCS PDF already. Adam really brings things to
> life, as he writes in three dimensions. And as for Grommspace, that *is* a
> "must have" for known space (we could probably put Tauruspace in there as
> well).

[Ben Wafer] Yeah, Tauruspace should probably be in there too. You know, I've
always considered that Adam, Paul, and Rian are the "big three" as far as
online SJ writing goes. And that's before they got Hackjammer done! 
 

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