Mar / April '18 Lite Challenge: Mus Murinae

[Bogie]

-bkh (My initials, if you are wondering.)

I will assume 1914 is not your birth year or the year that you graduated......

[aeshnidae]

WOW! I'm a Star System!

I never expected to see my name on a map. bkh1914 isn't the sort of name you normally give to a town or geographic feature. It never occurred to me that it was the type of name that is used for celestial objects. You found a perfect fit. Thanks.

Glad you like it, bkh! Much as Greason Wolfe, the moment I got the idea for this map, I knew you had the perfect name to use.

This is really well-thought-out, well put-together, well... well, it's great.

Thanks, Diamond, I'm glad you like it!

I will assume 1914 is not your birth year or the year that you graduated......

I was thinking the same thing. My cousin (1st cousin once removed) was born in 1917 and we celebrated her 100th birthday last year. I can't imagine any Guild members are older than Eva!

[aeshnidae]

I made some additional minor fixes. This is getting pretty close to final!

Most of the text on the left side is a nod to the Guild's website, including the number of Guild members (shown as the number of settlements), website menus, and the names of site leaders. The area and population are from the Donjon demographic generator that Diamond linked to for the April 2018 challenge. I included as many Guild member names as I could without making the maps too busy; the flat world map has more names than the planet view, with some others scattered throughout the non-map areas (MapMappingMapped, you're an abbreviation).

This is the first time that what I saw in my mind's eye when I started the map matched up with the final version almost perfectly. And I really didn't think I could do a sci-fi map at all!

This is also the first time I didn't start a map with pencil and paper. However, everything except the galaxy (which came from NASA's public images) and the beginning on the moon (which started as a photo of a slice of Swiss cheese) was originally drawn by hand using a Wacom Intuos tablet, then manipulated further in Photoshop.

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Guildworld Mockup v8 (sm).jpg

[bkh1914]

I will assume 1914 is not your birth year or the year that you graduated......

No, it's my street address / house number.

I had to come up with a unique name when I joined deviantART
and I decided to use the same moniker on all the art related sites.

[bkh1914]

I must say, this is an excellent map.
Lots of information without being too cluttered.
(My internet connection flat-lined earlier while downloading the map. )

Ummm... on the left side in the Leader list, it looks like there's a period at the end of Delgonda instead of an ellipsis