Note that these are in alphanumeric order, not displayed as if they were connecting: Sector Kaldra through Sector Zeta Gelis (total of 66 this post):
Category Archives: Sector Map
STO RL Sector Maps : Previously Unpublished Sectors with names starting A through J
Note that these are in alphanumeric order, not displayed as if they were connecting: Sector 500 through Sector Jaradan (total of 54 this post)
STO To “Take down the Walls” and revamp their Sector Maps
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9078783
However, given what I see so far it’ll mean the death of the STO RL Sectors project.
I’ll likely wait and see what their final output is before making any final decisions, and I applaud them taking this step to upgrade their map system, it doesn’t seem like it’s really worth the effort on my part to invest more into the STO RL Sectors for the time being.
EDIT 2: As I stated here I am looking forward to seeing what they are doing with the STO map — however it is so much changed that invalidates/alters the STO reconcilitation basis I started this project with that it would be silly to attempt to continue reconciling to STO. There may have been some comment someone made on the STO forums that I shut this project down because of personal feelings — far from that, there is no logical reason to continue this *AT THIS TIME* due to the amount of changes occuring. That is all. I have made the previously unpublished sectors with their star positions available for anyone to reference and we may revisit this *AS ANOTHER PROJECT* in the future…but as far as referencing STO to real stars, there is little point in doing so at this time until their map settles again.
The fact of the matter here is the new map seems to have many features I had spoken in SBUGC chat about some months ago, the open map and more foundry doors…the only thing missing (afaik) is eliminating the separate exploration zones and incorporating those as specialized collections of doors within sections of open space.
In short — if you read someone posting on STO forums that “malsmaps is all butthurt about new STO map” — THEY ARE WRONG and talking out their butts.
Edit: I’ll post up the remaining finished/unfinished sectors that are mapped so far, if nothing else people may be able to still use them to reference.
STO RL Sector Maps : RAh “Compass Rose” at center of Overall Map
As requested by Wombat140, a rough “compass rose” of RAh applied to the overall map, centered on Sol.
Plus an excerpt of the Stars database to give an idea of what goes on there:
STO RL Sector Maps : The Vega & Pollux Reconciliation
As outlined in my previous observation, the inclusion of Vega and Pollux in STO created some “issues.”
However, since I now have access to my databases again (thanks Open Office!) — it was time to get working on the STO-RL project again…and after some warming up by placing locations from ST:Generations and various other Trek video games (ST:Final Unity, ST:25th Anniversary, ST:Judgement Rites); I decided it was time to dig into the Vega/Pollux knot and untie it, especially since it was a rainy morning and I couldn’t actually work out in a lightning storm.
The long and short of the issue is that Vega and Pollux do not need to be tied to Alpha Lyrae and Beta Geminorum, in fact within “canon” itself there are separate systems referred to as Pollux and Beta Geminorum, indicating (as with Regulus and Alpha Leonis) that there is some form of disconnect between some system’s proper titles and popular names. While the STO-wiki maintains that their Pollux and Vega are Beta Gem. and Alpha Lyrae, this wasn’t going to work given the nature of this mapping project, thus their Pollux must be some other star that acquired the title that normally would be associated with Beta Gem. So Beta Gem. stays in Argelius Sector, but Pollux is as shown by STO in Orion Sector.
Vega was easier to rationalize, since it is unlikely that the actual Alpha Lyrae has anything worthwhile in orbit given the nature of spectral class A stars…there is logic to early colony promoters attaching some “exotic space name” to their colony, i.e., “Vega Colony”…it’s not at Vega, but that wouldn’t be important, nor the point from the angle of the promoter or the colonist travelling there. So Alpha Lyrae stays in Tellar Sector, and Vega Colony (or Vega) in Orion Sector.
So having resolved to locate these two places where STO has them, this called for the previously located places (Tellun and Gavaria) to find new homes.
Gavaria was easy, it wasn’t an actual stop on any of the series’ routes, so I simply moved it to a more “fitting” named place…the star Gavaria is associated with Sigma Pegasi. Sigma Pegasi is in Cardassian space (Kora Sector,) but given that the main reference to Gavarians was during ST:ENT, and that they were often prey for more predatory species (Ferengi in the case of the reference) then it would not be out of the question for some far from home Gavarian trader to be raided by the Ferengi, nor would it be unexpected for such a species to be overrun by the TNG-period by the Cardassians (and thus not really heard from again since the species is more or less slaving away under the Cardassian jackboot for a good deal of time by TNG.)
Tellun, on the other hand, is a TOS-stop – relocating it to the Kassae Sector near the Klingon “ancient claims” area seemed a reasonable move…however do to the connected nature of the travel times between episodes it did cause me to re-reconcile the stops before and after Tellun, essentially making a move for Melkot out of Antares Sector and into Gamma 7 Sector something that worked better (moving Tellun 20 LY “south-east” would’ve, in the simplest answer moved Melkot 20 LY “south-east” from it’s old position, this would’ve placed it basically into the Federation core and that just made no sense, so “flipping” it so that a similar angle but southerly worked out and allowed a better “flow” from TOS episodes 49-52 in the TOS/TAS Voyage.
So all kinds of changes were made, new places located, old places shuffled about, sector maps updated, overall map updated, but the Gazetteer isn’t yet …but now I’m pushing the Romulan Border up into Algorab Sector, and eventually I think into the Nyberrite Alliance (!) — but that is the direction of the future updates 🙂
I’ll be thinking about this for awhile…Vega and Pollux on the STO Map
Yup.
Hmmm…well, Vega is nicely placed for 58 Eridani (see Orion Sector Map) — Pollux location would fit better at the Zeta Doradus on the other side of Una…as it is the GL 169 system would work for the exact placement, and both Tellun (currently at 58 Eridani) and Gavaria (currently at GL 169) could move elsewhere nearby.
It’s possible that Vega (like so many other locations in Trek-lore) actually isn’t the star Vega (see Tellar Sector Map) since it is highly improbable for such a hot young-ish star to have anything habitable hanging around it…and it wouldn’t be the first time in history that someone pounced on a popular-in-the-imagination place name to promote their colonial/settlement needs. However, obviously the devs were using existing territory instead of opening up a “new sector” as it were.
Pollux on the other hand could actually be located in its “proper” location on an existing map, that being within the Argelius Sector. (of course Pollux’s twin, Castor we’ve got at the as unpublished Azure Sector location of Acamar.)
Wonder how “wedded” the devs are to these positions 🙂 lol, oh well. I shall ponder this further before making changes.
STO RL Sector Map: Xarantine Sector
1) Sector Morphology: This region of space has a fairly even distribution of stars, almost unremarkable in content asides from Xarantine and Laurentian. Home to the Xarantine race, this and neighboring sectors, are host to a number of their commercial endeavors. Before the Federation this was often a “happy hunting ground” for Klingon raiders and Orion or Nausicaan pirates. The Xarantines were quick to take advantage of a membership in the Federation when offered, a starbase was shortly in place at Ajilon with outposts established later on, patrols to curtail the raiding also began which continue through to this day.
2) Major Systems:
Ajilon / Ajilon Prime – home to a Federation base and a handful of colonial settlements, due to its strategic location along the Archanis/Xarantine sector border this was world and system were a battlefield in the brief Fed-Klingon War of 2272.
Beta XII – this system was quarantined after an entity living in the system took over a starship from the Federation and the Klingon Empire, planting false memories in their crews and causing them to fight.
(Memory Alpha shows Star Charts as saying Beta XII is Beta Leonis Minoris, which would be located at 136,53,58…well beyond Federation or Klingon spheres of influences.
The full name given was Beta XII-A, suggesting the planet in the episode could actually have been a moon of a larger body, such as a gas giant. The star L 59-3 is an M3 main sequence, an old age star which would fit in with the ancient nature of the Beta XII entity…a large gas giant emitting its own warmth may be the host of the planet on screen, either being the 12th occupied orbit from L59-3 or perhaps it is the only thing orbiting the star and the whole system is known as Beta XII to distinguish it from the numerous other beta’s in Fed space.)
Danteri – settled by Ferengi in 2343, this is now a bustling commercial hub.
Epsilion Outpost 7 – minor Fed outpost for monitoring the Klingon NZ.
Epsilion Outpost 9 (New) – this monitoring station is at the post-Khitomer Treaty border location.
Honod – this system sports a very large asteroid cloud and a few larger planetoids, possibly a sign that the star’s accretion disc was disrupted or otherwise arrested during planetary development.
Kern – most notable in this system is a Class-S ultra gas giant.
Laurentian – a new “boom” colony that supplies the raw material needs required for the photonic lifeform community.
SB 36 – one would expect this starbase to be the hub of action, but it seems to be one of the quietest “forward” starbase assignments in Star Fleet, and a choice spot for “twilight career” pre-retirement postings.
SB 4077 – a mobile medical starbase that is moved near to long term crisis points where repeated casualties are expected. First “stood up” in the 2260’s, the command was most successfully employed during the Hobus Supernova crisis. Now it has been positioned to take the wounded from the bloody fighting around the Archanis sector; 90% of the critically wounded Star Fleet members spend some amount of time here. (the whole “mobile base” thing was all me…but come on, 4077? really TNG? Figured I may as well try to make some damn sense out of it.)
Seedea – A Class-I supergiant surrounded by an asteroid belt with hight amounts of topaline and pergium. Janus Mining and Planetary Supply has established a series of collectors in orbit around the planet to gather hydrogen-astatine compounds from the surface.
Trimble – A ringed, Class-M world, Trimble shares many properties with Vulcan, including its vast deserts. A thick layer of clouds keeps the average surface temperature about 15 degrees cooler than temperatures in Vulcan’s Forge, however, and snow in the mountains is common.
Xarantine – The Xarantine system is home to a spacefaring civilization which was frequently raided by Klingon forces in the 22nd century. As the Federation grew and became a rival to the Empire, the Xarantine allied themselves with the former and hosted Starfleet drydock, sensor and defense facilities during the 23rd and 24th centuries. During the Dominion War in the 2370s, the system was occupied by Jem’Hadar forces, and, in the 2380s, became the site of a large battle against the Borg.
(although, I’m not sure how the Jem’Hadar got this far…)
(Note: I’ve posited that the inhabitants of Ricxann in the neighboring Celes Sector, who were helped by the NX-01 Enterprise to fend off Klingon raiders, were Xarantine colonists.)
STO RL Sector Map: Betazed Sector
1) Sector Morphology: The Betazed Sector shares the spinward section of the Risan cluster family of stars from the adjacent Risa Sector to trailing. The rimward portion of the Argolis Cluster skims the coreward portion of the sector.
2) Major Systems:
Betazed, Federation member and homeworld of the Betazed species.
Dachlyd, homeworld to the Dachlyd species.
Dramia, Dramia has two inhabited worlds, the first Dramia I or Prime is the homeworld of the Dramians, the second (or Dramia II) was colonized by the Dramians in the 23rd century.
Gamma Erandi, an unremarkable star, it is most notable for lending its name to the Gamma Erandi Nebula just to rimward in the Umani Sector.
Gemaris, the fifth planet of this system is homeworld to the Gemarians.
Kaelon, the second planet of this system is homeworld to the Kaelon species.
New Kelva, a group of Kelvans from the Andromeda Galaxy reside on a world in this system.
Praxillus, this star went nova after an revitalization experiment failed in 2367.
Sigma Erandi, one of a handful of systems where the hytritium element can be located in the local region of the galaxy.
Starbase 211, one of the bulwarks against the “southern” Dominion thrust into the Federation. Starbase 211 was under a constant state of siege after the Dominion took Betazed. The skirmishes for Starbase 211’s single supply line past the Argolis Cluster could easily escalate into minor battles during the war.
Xanthras, this system is a favored rendezvous point for Starfleet ships since it is conveniently located to all the major shipping routes and a half dozen starbases.
STO RL Sector Map : Kassae Sector
At one time this region was simply known as “The Borderland,” the area between the Orion and Klingon sphere of influences.
1) Sector Morphology:
The stars of the Kassae sector tend to cluster to rimward half (“bottom/south.”)
The most notable feature of the sector is the nebulous region known as the “Briar Patch which dominates the middle spinward side of the sector and tends to force traffic operating above the galactic plane to go around it.
While there are a handful of rimward and trailing star clusters in the sector, the most notable is the Lembatta Cluster which has had strategic and historical importance; this cluster was once the anchor point for Klingon expansion to spinward/coreward (i.e. towards the Federation core) prior to the founding of the Federation. The expansion of the Federation and the internal political fallout from a dubious scientific effort caused this strategic cluster to be abandoned by the Empire in the early/mid-2200’s and it was subsequently absorbed into the Federation sphere. During the Klingon-Federation war of 2372-73, the Empire reasserted their historic claims in the region and several skirmishes and ambuscades occurred here.
2) Major Systems:
Ayala – information redacted by order of Starfleet Intelligence, rumored to be the site of some top secret security facility.
Ba’ku – a small Ba’ku colony world, the unique rings of the planet emit radiation which apparently keeps the inhabitants of that world from aging normally.
Canaris – this system contains the primary Epsilion Canaris (or Canaris III) and a number of other planets, including one good sized asteroid belt known as Gamma Canaris. The somewhat confusing nomenclature used in the star system is potentially due to the fact that the primary actually orbits a large gas giant in the habitable zone, another equally large giant (Beta Canaris) is on the other side of two asteroid belts toward the star, in this area nothing larger than a planetoid survives the tidal forces of the two super-planets. Of the two belts, known as Gamma Canaris and Delta Canaris, the latter belt is very sparse compared to the former. Some of the planetoids in the Gamma Canaris belt are capable of holding atmosphere, but only a few are tide-locked which allows bands of habitable terrain to develop.
Dace – this system, which is also known as SNR-093120, contains a class Y world which orbits at 0.6 AU from the star and has surface temperatures of 500 degrees kelvin. There are periodic thermionic radiation discharges from this world.
Kassae – the Kassae system is saturated with metreon isotopes which interfere with communications. The planet of Kassae II has underground ruins of a reptilian race which may have been related to the Gorn and Saurian species.
Maluria – former homeworld of the Malurian species prior to the destruction of all life in the system by the Nomad probe. The Malurians were the primary check against Klingon expansion into the Kassae sector and the Federation was in the first steps of permanent cultural exchange with the possibility of eventual membership at the time of destruction.
Qu’Vat Colony – this former Klingon outpost was active until around the 2250’s. The colony is not to be confused with the Qu’Vat sector in Klingon space.
Relva – home to a Starfleet Outpost.
Sardah – a colony world with almost 5 million inhabitants, it is home to an Academy of Cosmology, volcanic lakes, and large aurora’s known as “great plumes.”
Servin – this system contains two worlds whose orbits and compositions share some properties with the now destroyed Romulus and Remus planets.
Tellun (with the planets of Elas and Troyius, from ST:TOS episode “Elaan of Troyius“) The Klingons of the period from ST:ENT to ST:TOS considered Tellun to be within their sphere of influence, we see a much more active Klingon presence in this area during ST:ENT. In the late 2260’s Tellun was one of the last remaining footholds of the Klingon Empire sphere of influence within the Kassae Sector. After the Dohlman of Elas was married to the ruler of Troyius, what influence the Klingons still held within these two sectors was broken.
Trialas – Dr. Arik Soong raised a group of augments on the fourth world of this system in the 2130’s.
Velara – the third world of this system was being terraformed by the Federation in the mid-24th century before the effort was abandoned.
Verex – an Orion world that was once a famed slave market prior to the Federation’s crackdown on the slave trade within it’s sphere of influence.
STO RL Sector Map : Risa Sector
Ahhh…Risa! The stuff of leisure legend across the Federation…and beyond.
1) Sector Morphology: The Risa Sector transitions from denser cluster formations on the west side sub-sectors to a more normal dispersion of stars to the eastern sub-sectors. Notable named features are the southern edge of the Arucanis Arm that extends down from Orion/Celes Sector border area to the north-east and the Gamma Orionis Transwarp Gate which resides in a natural transwarp node.
2) Major Systems:
Risa, homeworld to the Risians and popular tourist destination.
Son’a, this system has the closest thing the nomadic Son’a peoples call a home world. Exiles from the Briar Patch system of Ba’ku in the adjacent Kassae Sector made their new home on Son’a before transitioning to a more nomadic cultural lifestyle.
Tandar, homeworld of the Tandarans. Before joining the Federation the Tandarans exerted a sphere of influence over most of the southern sub-sectors and their name was synonymous with this sector of space. During their period of ascendancy the Tandarans took in a number of displaced humanoids from the Son’a and Suliban diasporas.
Mazar, homeworld of the Mazarites and one of the first Federation members within the Risa Sector which.
Starbase 12, sitting almost astride the junctions of four key Federation sectors, Starbase 12 has been a stalwart strategic linchpin for almost three hundred years. The close proximity to Risa makes this a much sought after duty assignment.
Omar, a satellite outpost of Starbase 12 and the site of numerous automated deuterium and dilithium mining and cracking stations spread across the various uninhabitable planets and asteroids of the system.
Tazi, homeworld of the Tazani who have applied for Federation membership. The Federation operates a science station in orbit of Tazi, this is done in cooperation with the Tazani Science Ministry.
Torotha, homeworld of the Torothans a clannish space faring society
Achrady, an inhabited system. Very possible that this would be an Tandaran colony at some point in the past given their previous status in the sector.
Kotara Barath, a Kantare colony established some years before 2129. At the time this would have placed the colony very close to or within the Tandaran sphere of influence, very possibly a trading outpost for the Kantare and the Tandarans.
Koolhaas, this uninhabited system hosts a super-gas giant which lends its name to the system itself. Decalithium deposits have been detected in the super-giants ring structure.
Donia, the primary planet of this system has suffered an ecological breakdown and been evacuated of inhabitants. Another good candidate for a former Tandaran colony.
Imaga, the Imagans were once fiercely competitive tribes and clans, similar to the Torothan model, however they have transitioned to a pacifist society. Under Son’a occupation for a short time around fifty years previous.
Bomari, an uninhabited system. Bomari is noted for the density and composition of its asteroid belt.
Theta, location of Theta III. Given that the star of the system they are in (Eta Leporis, a F2V spectral class) the likely habitable zone world would be located in a “seventh” position if there were six previous planets in orbit and no empty orbits. Theta III would be a very hot world with no standing water if there were “full orbits”…so it is more likely that the spacing in orbits of this system is much larger than in the Sol system and the presence of large “sweeper” type worlds such as gas giants closer to the star than the potential colony world.
Voxsola – a web-like symbiotic life form covers most of a planet in this system.
Vega Colony is addressed in the Orion Sector description.
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Legend Note:
I am trying something new with this sector map, using smaller symbols around he primary star symbol to indicate binary and trinary, etc. systems.
If you have any input on if this works, or just clutters things up more, please do let me know.
Binary, Trinary, Polynary…oh my!
Mal's Maps 
