[TML] An odd Idea

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 4/2/08 11:22 PM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

> On 2 Apr 2008 at 15:59, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
>> In Traveller, if you're not privy to the nav system, or can see (and
>> chart) the sky AND know your orientation AND have access to a Nav
>> database (see the first part) when you jump, you could be *anywhere*
>> within jump range. You could be told it's a two,three jump trip, with
>> an unspecified jump number. Jump in a J6 crew transport, and three
>> jumps puts you within a HUGE volume of space.
> 
> Seeing the sky doesn't help much unless there's a *very* distinctive
> star visible.
> 
> Most bright stars are very close. And the ones that aren't are going
> to blend in. 

The sky at Alpha Centauri would like practically identical to here.  Except
Alpha would be gone, and a similar star would be on the opposite side of the
sky.  And it's called Alpha because it's the brightest in the Centaur, thus
fairly noticeable.

The close stars are particularly important, because they will move so much