Talk:The Rack


Port Vail[edit]

Planet appears to be Port Vail of the former Rim World Republic. Found out that by comparing distances on the 2750 map of the Rwr. But as i am new to this wiki I didn't want to implement it without discussing it in the first place. Also was unsure about 'how' to implement it. Dijonne / Pain or the other way arround? Owner would be Rwr as of 2750, but remain Periphery für later era's.

Ref: File:Rwr_-_2750.png.jpg (There's a pike of lyran teritory poking up with planet Main Street. Port Vail is to the upper left.)

System Renaming[edit]

I know from past conversations here that Periphery systems have a tendency to vanish from maps not just because the colonies there have died off, but also because the systems there are of no significance or are not noteworthy enough to appear on maps, and that some systems reappear later on. The Magistracy of Canopus has a few systems like Wildwood that hop on and off maps from the Star League era through to 3130.

Thanks to the quality of the maps available now and the availability of the books in PDF format, it's possible to overlay copies of maps onto each other and scale them to the same scale using established systems as a reference points, and doing so for former provinces of the Rim Worlds Republic and the Map of the Inner Sphere 3130 shows a number of systems with different names that share the same location on the two maps. I was wondering if it's possible to confirm if they are in fact the same?

The systems I've been looking at are:

  • The RWR system of Erin/Von Strang's World in the Barrens
  • The RWR system of Port Vail/The Rack in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Dijonne/Pain in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Lywick/Ferreusvirgo in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Lushun/Jibbet in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Oporto/Veil in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Austerlitz/Scauld in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Anatolia/Pillory in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Edirne/Brank in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Seven Lands/Garotte in the Rim Territories
  • The RWR system of Helbrent/Andiron in the area which used to form the Circinus Federation
  • The RWR system of Himmels/Balthazar III in the area which used to form the Circinus Federation
  • The RWR system of Iolas/Deidre's Den in the area which used to form the Circinus Federation
  • The RWR system of Green Stone/Clayborne II in the area which used to form the Circinus Federation
  — BrokenMnemonic, Ask The Writers Forum, 10 Aug 2011
Correct, yes.

With regards,
Øystein

  — Øystein Tvedten, BattleTech Developer, 18 Aug 2011