A nice map of the WH40K Galaxy
Posted: 2006-09-27 08:36pm
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Stark wrote:Dyson sphere? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's gold.
The Appear to be on the Eastern Fringe North of Ultramar.It's pretty, but the angle and huge stars make it difficult for me to visualise. Is there a less-leet, clearer version? I've only seen the old drawn maps from the 90s, and I've no idea where the Tau etc fit in.
It's supposed to be a Dyson Sphere, as it's really honking big, metal, where a star should be, and there might be a crazy C'tan in it, as the Tyranid Hive Flight did a detour to avoid it.Stark wrote:So it's not an Easter egg joke thing, there really is a Dyson Sphere in 40K? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Did the nids stop to have a look, or did it pull them off course? Oh, mercy.
That just doesn't seem right...Lonestar wrote:Necron Codex. It's way, way out on the edge of the Galaxy. So far away that it was studied wiht long-range telescopes instead of a visit.
Look closely at that map. The center of the Imperium is not the center of the galaxy. Sol is in the Orion Arm. Those goofy "Segmenta" reflect political areas, not physical ones.Noble Ire wrote:I don't know too much about 40k, beyond a few basics, but there is something about that map that strikes me as odd. Is it ever explained canonically why Earth... Holy Terra is at the center of the Galaxy, rather than on one of its arms? Did the Emperor decide that the Orion Arm wasn't gritty enough, and took the whole planet on a road trip through the Warp or something?
I see what you mean; I must have been thrown by the odd orientation of the map. Thanks.Morilore wrote:Look closely at that map. The center of the Imperium is not the center of the galaxy. Sol is in the Orion Arm. Those goofy "Segmenta" reflect political areas, not physical ones.Noble Ire wrote:I don't know too much about 40k, beyond a few basics, but there is something about that map that strikes me as odd. Is it ever explained canonically why Earth... Holy Terra is at the center of the Galaxy, rather than on one of its arms? Did the Emperor decide that the Orion Arm wasn't gritty enough, and took the whole planet on a road trip through the Warp or something?
Wherever humanity goes or looks, the Orks have been there first. The Orks have inhabited and invaded planets for millenia, so theres bound to be some planets they still control which the Imperium asn't been able to take from them.Noble Ire wrote:I see what you mean; I must have been thrown by the odd orientation of the map. Thanks.Morilore wrote:Look closely at that map. The center of the Imperium is not the center of the galaxy. Sol is in the Orion Arm. Those goofy "Segmenta" reflect political areas, not physical ones.Noble Ire wrote:I don't know too much about 40k, beyond a few basics, but there is something about that map that strikes me as odd. Is it ever explained canonically why Earth... Holy Terra is at the center of the Galaxy, rather than on one of its arms? Did the Emperor decide that the Orion Arm wasn't gritty enough, and took the whole planet on a road trip through the Warp or something?
While I'm at it, I suppose I'll ask another stupid question; why are some Ork worlds interspersed within Imperial territory? I was under the impression that the factions were generally opposed to one another. Something to do with 40k FTL?
Orks are notoriously hard to get rid of. Once they infest any given planet or even region of space, they're nigh-impossible to remove short of Exterminatus. With the Imperium stretched thin on a constant basis, only the most dire threats are generally dealt with, so something as relatively trivial as a mob of in-fighting Orks is low on the list of priorities:Noble Ire wrote:I see what you mean; I must have been thrown by the odd orientation of the map. Thanks.
While I'm at it, I suppose I'll ask another stupid question; why are some Ork worlds interspersed within Imperial territory? I was under the impression that the factions were generally opposed to one another. Something to do with 40k FTL?
It is uncomfortably close, but as you can see by the arrows Hivefleet Leviathan isn't in the best of shape at the moment. It's unlikely that they'll get past Necromunda and Mundus.dragon wrote:I noticed that the Hivefleet is getting pretty close to Terra. Were they stopped or are they still making headway.
One thing to remember with 40K, as well as the fact that Orks have been everywhere, is that the IoM is actually thinly spread over a million stars. They only occupy a small part of the territory they claim to control with alien held world, rebel worlds, unihabited star systems, lost systems, and so on in so forth within each Segmentum.Noble Ire wrote:
While I'm at it, I suppose I'll ask another stupid question; why are some Ork worlds interspersed within Imperial territory? I was under the impression that the factions were generally opposed to one another. Something to do with 40k FTL?
Nah. It's pretty much where it is in the rule book, and I think the size is rightAdrian Laguna wrote:That map seems a bit wrong. For one thing, I'm pretty sure the Eye of Terror spans the center of the galaxy. Even if I'm wrong in that respect, I'm sure it is much, much bigger.