Atlas of Known Space

There are several known problems with maps and data generated using the Heaven & Earth software: 

• • • Ignore Shuttleport codes on the maps, which are the first letter of UWP codes for all non-main worlds. It should be X for uninhabited worlds but the software will not correctly do this. 

    • While the stars used in the game are based on a realistic star catalog, not everything could be correctly mapped: 

      • Only the first 14 characters of a star's name could be entered into the database, so some star names are truncated. 

      • Only one star name per star system can be entered into the database, so the stars of some binary and trinary systems share the same name even when they actually have different names. 

      • The software has a limited palette of stellar classifications that it can handle, many real stars have had to be assigned a classification which is close enough.

    • On even uninhabited worlds, the maps for each world will have one hex with a black dot, the marker for a city, ignore this. 

    • The listed UWP on each world map in this software will not change during the course of the game, regardless of colonization efforts. There is an edit UWP option within the program, but it does not work and the UWP on the map is not editable any other way without at least triggering a randomly based regeneration of the entire Star System.

    • The distance from a world and it's primary, for all worlds, in the database will only be either 0.2, 0.4, 0.7, 1.0,  1.6, 2.8, 5.2,  10, 19.6,  38.8,  77.2, 154.0, 614.8, or 1229.2, regardless of any other characteristics of the system.

    • The maps and UWPs for many worlds will show the presence of water, even for worlds which have a listed average surface temp far in excess of 100C. ?Presumably this represents the presence of some other fluid than H2O?