How to illustrate and "explore" Natal Sector.

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There are four levels of description in the main section. --- 1. The Sector Map. Patterned on the #Traveller game's system, this unrealistically assumes a 2D layout with X,Y coordinates. (Please leave this page to Manda.) --- 2. Star pages. These have illustrations created using No Man's Sky, Paint Shop Pro, and other tools. They are largely fanciful because we are at a point in history when actual imaging at this scale has not yet been done. (Manda is taking artistic license to make them each more interesting, but also attempting to stay within known scientific parameters.) --- 3. Planet pages. The initial descriptions of planets are superficial (just "inspiration" images, basically). For this, please put in images from https://zarkonnen.itch.io/planet-generator, using the planet's name as the seed [the #]. --- At the very start, each Planet gets a rectangle made of horizontal stripes of each of its colors: Sky, Clouds, and Ground. If it is present (roll a random die to check), a color for Liquid is also generated. (*For purposes of Surface pages, the "surface" of a planet with a soupy or gas composition is, the lowest altitude at which a 200kg sphere floats halfway. This is the "Manda" Surface point.)

Meta-information with guidelines for randomly (not procedurally) deriving the colors to be used in the Surface pages is stored on the Planet page, as are links to its Surface pages.


 * How to generate colors for Surface pages

--- 4. Surface pages. These are depictions of the view from the planet's surface*. These are the places where individual artists have the most to do. :)
 * Example/template Color "Swatch" Page