Just that kid in the back of the class who doodled instead of listening to the teacher, now grown up into a dysfunctional adult whose better at coming up with stories rather than actually writing them!
I draw mostly my original work and designs.
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Any chance you could finish this map 51821102716_7236332eab_b.jpg (1024×929) (staticflickr.com) in the same vein as the RotS map as a What If map?
I dunno, a lot of those systems to add have practically no data to work with, and adding around 60 new systems would mean I'd need to redo a bunch of the Jump Routes. In the end I'd just be making stuff up, which I tried to avoid with the RotS and Clan maps.
I wouldn't be against reviving the "Estimate Alliance" for a normal map, but it doesn't really interest me to go that detailed with it.
Estimate Alliance map sounds like it would be awesome and the Alliance had 600+ Systems before the Demarcation and I really want to see that map and you do have What If maps, and those unposted maps are amazing and I wish you posted them.
The modern version of that map marks every system at least referenced to be in the Terran Alliance itself. Not a very large list, but it makes sense since the Alliance was probably one of the worst nations at keeping track of its own size.
They didn't even try to perform a regular census with the only two known "Grand Surveys," as they called them, being almost 100 years apart. The 600+ colonies found in the Grand Survey is a misleading number, since only 360-ish colonies actually considered themselves as part of the Terran Alliance, and many colonies went unnoticed and unrecorded simply because they were too far away or had cut all ties with Earth.
During the height of the Terran Hegemony, they spent a ridiculous amount of time and money trying to track down and find all the pockets of humanity that the Alliance missed. And they found tons more, though the lore only records a few.
Another issue with the Terran Alliance's surveys was that they didn't seem to differentiate what was population centers or just a system with 200 miners looking for gold. The Alliance's inept and indifferent taxation likely killed a great number of those colonies that got listed, well before their collapse and the Age of War could. (Ironically the same thing would contribute to the downfall of the Star League.)
Some nations, like the Sarna Supremacy, Liao Republic, Capellan Republic, Tamar Pact, Chesterton Trade League, Muskegon Coalition, and possibly nations like the Ingersoll Concordium, Intendency of New New Spain, had already formed and been locally recognized as nations (though the Alliance recognized none.)
It's a very vague and mysterious time, left that way by the developers because they identified that the mystery was more valuable like that.
Found this while looking for Terran Alliance Maps 2242___terran_alliance__battletech_fanart__by_lazurez_des6… | Flickr but it's not in your gallery?
This one to be precise
That was an old and VERY inaccurate map. I replaced it with the modern one, which far better represents the actual lore of the series.