Anyone else notice that the Milky Way Galaxy and Galactic Core in Sector Space are most likely wrong?
Here is a nice write-up on how it is commonly thought to be:
http://www.stdimension.org/int/Cartography/federation.htm
Another thing, how hard would it be to put another Sol System zone in point in the Alpha Centauri Sector? And allow people to zone in to the Alpha Centauri Sector via Earth Spacedock and the Sol System.
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But we could go see the giant face if we wanted?
Cool!
I wasn't aware the Galactic Core shows up on any maps inside STO.
Though I think they should modify the background of all sectors to have the familiar Milky Way, so we actually feel like we're flying about in our galaxy and not some other random one, with sectors closer to the Galactic Core having it brighter and larger, as we would expect to see.
Well, I doubt there'd be much involving that bit of lore since we now know that galaxies (ours included) have massive blackholes at their core.
God is a black hole.
You heard it here first!
When in Sector Space (Sirius Sector) look up into the skymap (skydome) and you will see the purplish/greenish Milky Way Galaxy circling this skymap. The galaxy is on a tilt of about +45 degrees on the minimap left side and -45 degrees on minimap right side. When you are facing minimap bottom you will notice that the galaxy is much larger and brighter (Galactic Core) facing this way; this is opposite of what it should be.
I think the Galaxy should be at a tilt of 0 degrees and that the Galactic Core shown should be in the other direction or minimap top. Then with each bit of sector space the galaxy and galactic core do not match up; they should be consistent since they are all part of the same galaxy, no?
You DO know, that this is a piece of Fiction? And that pretty much every system shows unrealistic backgrounds for pure aesthetics? And that a "nebula" is a big cluster of stars, and not something you can fly through like through some fog?
Yes, I know this is fiction. But within that fiction there is data that shows that the current rendition of this is not correct.
Would you be ok if we added in, lets say pink fairies floating around spawning cyborg dragons that slaughter humans? It's only fiction isn't it?
Actually: Yes it would be okay. It would look weird in Star Trek, 'cause we're not used to it from the shows and movies. But in a world settled with "Transporter Beams" and "faster than light travel" and "artificial gravity", pink fairies would actually look reasonable.
Star Trek never cared a shred for realism. It's an entertaining piece of fiction and it does what it has to, to be interesting, entertaining and good looking.
There are about a billion things in Star Trek that don't care for and defy physics and are in for the simple reason, that Fiction doesn't care for physics either. You would have a Nasa Space Shuttle simulator if you made the game realistic.
So yes, "pink fairies floating around spawning cyborg dragons that slaughter humans" would be an actual option and wouldn't look more weird than a working Holodeck (Which also defies pretty much every single law of nature!). Hell, we even had Rumpelstiltskin in at one point.
Q and the Holodeck solve all riddles about the Star Trek Continuum. And maps of the Galaxy are pretty well established in the shows and fiction of the series.