Babylon 5 Galaxy map: V.0.5
Created by: X-File
Email: X-File<at>quicknet.nl


This is the BETA edition of the Babylon 5 galaxy
for Sins of a Solar Empire. Each planet is named
and placed according to the Galaxy map presented
in the 2nd Edition Babylon 5 RPG by Mongoose
Publishing. The starting homeworlds are: 
* Sol Sector of the Earth Alliance (sorry, no
Mars or Transfer point at Io, consider it all
grouped at Sol)
* Minbar of the Minbari Federation
* Centauri Prime of the Centauri Republic
* Homeworld of the Narn Regime
* Vorlon Homeworld of the Vorlon Empire
* N'chak'fah of the Gaim Intelligence
* Abba of the Abbai Matriarchate
* Zhabar of the Drazi Freehold
* Brakos of the Brakiri Syndicracy
* Z'ha'dum of the Shadow Dominion

There are 201 entities on the map, and a total of
197 planets to dominate. Play against 9 opponents 
to see which race may call itself master
of the galaxy, or in true B5 style create an 
Interstellar Alliance and kick the grand powers
out of your galaxy!

The Human, Minbari, Centauri, Vorlon, Narn and
Shadow starting points should be easy enough to
understand. I chose the Gaim, Abbai, Drazi and
Brakiri as the other player starting points 
due to their role and screentime during Babylon
5. There are a lot of other League of Non-Aligned
Worlds to choose from, but I picked these, and
now you know why.

The central sun is just there because every map 
needs one star to begin with, it really serves no 
function on this map.

In this BETA version, every race has the same 
starting conditions. 3000 Money, 250 Crystal,
800 Metal and 1 planet to start with.

What to expect in future releases:
* As of yet, all hyperspace lanes are open, yet some
lanes are restricted. When I've worked out all the
Wormhole rules, some planets will have restriced
hyperspace lanes between them, which mean they can
only be used when wormhole technology has been 
researched.
* A seperate file included which starts every empire
which his own colony worlds, which means 'Centauri'
empire players start out with a whopping 23 planets
under their control. Just watch out for your Narn
neighbours!
* Different starting credits for each of the Homeworlds.
The larger your starting empire, the less cash you 
receive. And if I get the planetary wormholes to work,
Z'ha'dum will be isolated behind 3-!- wormholes, which
means you get added cash to research wormhole travel
as soon as possible. With the single planet starting 
condition Z'ha'dum will still receive a cash bonus to
be able to research Wormholes.

Wishes:
A full fledged Babylon 5 mod voor SoaSE, B5 deserves to 
be made into a mod, and look at the excellent work that's
out there for games like Nexus, Freespace 2 and X3: 
Reunion. At least you got the map to play with now. :)

Babylon 5 Galaxy Map. All rights of the source
material go to their respective copyright holders
and / or creators. This was a work of a fan, no need
to sue my poor ass off.