An old thought bubbled up about what the structure of LT is really like, at the macroscale.
I was trying to rationalize how the LT verses could fit inside a real sea of stars, how these systems are full of life and stuff, but you can see tens of thousands of stars in any system, 99.99% you can't visit (yes i know, you can't visit any of them since they're just dots, but for suspension of disbelief)
The thing which makes most sense is that there exists a wormhole network, it connects some stars but not others, and that the civilizations of LT are just those that happened to arise in a system connected to this vast network. Plenty of other civilizations arose too, but they were trapped by the vast distances of travelling through deep space without the benefit of a wormhole to make the journey nearly instantaneous...
Here is a hypothetical map of some portion of an LT Verse. Some systems, though incredibly far apart in normal space, are right next to each other (Alpha Dog - Sirius) while there exist systems that are far closer in normal space, but the actual journey through normal space would be inconceivably long and so it makes far more sense to take a very long route through the wormhole net, get there in a tiny fraction of the time (Alpha Dog - Fartz).
You also have unstable wormholes that change the distance between systems dramatically, that when the wormhole is open, it can cut travel time significantly. If it's closed and you want to get from Jamaica to Fartz, that's 4 jumps, possibly through hostile space, but when it's open, it's only 2 jumps.
Then there are systems which can only be accessed from an unstable wormhole, meaning you can only get there or out of there occasionally, like Sol to New New York. And there are other systems, like Westeros, Pandora, and Omicron Percei which are known to have life and resources, but they just happen to not be on the network, and are either totally inaccessible or require very special tech that could jump from any system to any system without need of wormholes.
For the most part what i'm saying is: Should the star map of LT include stars we can't go to? It's a fairly minor and mostly aesthetic thing, and wouldn't be hard to implement, but gameplay wise, its entirely unnecessary.
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Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:14 pm
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The structure of the Universe
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