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Might be best to open it in a seperate browser for full size.

http://www.joachim-adomeit.de/wh40k/spacemap/wh40k_starmap.jpg



A couple of things struck me:

- How far and wide the Imperium is spread throughout the Galaxy
- Without giving Brother Coa ammo, how small the Tau empire is in comparison
- How small the Tyranid invasions have been, in comparison to the overall size of the Imperiums control sphere
- Having said that, how close Leviathan is to Earth (also bear in mind Lev is moving up the galactic plane so this 2D image dosent do it justicce (Does that mean the Nids are surrounding the whole Galaxy, vector-wise?)
- How far out some of the Eldar Craft Worlds are, they really are on the edge of known space

Bear in mind, from other maps I've seen this one seems to be rotated about 30 degrees North (ie The Tau empire, Kraken etc are in the 2 o clock position, other maps I've seen they are usally around 5pm - anyone else confirm this?).

Ratius wrote:
A couple of things struck me:

- How far and wide the Imperium is spread throughout the Galaxy You can see the borders of the Segmentums, that wide is Imperium stretched
- Without giving Brother Coa ammo, how small the Tau empire is in comparison To late . On 1 Tau world goes 10.000 Imperial worlds
- How small the Tyranid invasions have been, in comparison to the overall size of the Imperiums control sphere First 2 not very large, but the last is since it attacks the galaxy from below unlike everyone else who attacks from side.
- Having said that, how close Leviathan is to Terra (also bear in mind Lev is moving up the galactic plane so this 2D image dosent do it justicce (Does that mean the Nids are surrounding the whole Galaxy, vector-wise?) We don't know that, we only know that one part of it is going toward Terra and other is going toward Baal. But we can assume that they are close since Leviathan already attacked Tarsis Ultra and Gryphon IV. We can assume somewere in the begining of 42'nd millenum these 2 battles will occur.
- How far out some of the Eldar Craft Worlds are, they really are on the edge of known space Some Craftworlds are on the edge of the GALAXY ( known universe is our entire universe and it contains billions of galaxies ), there are also Exodite worlds somewhere out there.

Bear in mind, from other maps I've seen this one seems to be rotated about 30 degrees North (ie The Tau empire, Kraken etc are in the 2 o clock position, other maps I've seen they are usally around 5pm - anyone else confirm this?).

Hope I hepl a bit. And one question: are you Tyranid player?

No, play a bit of everything but am a fan of the Nid fluff/background.

Ratius wrote:No, play a bit of everything but am a fan of the Nid fluff/background.

Ok, then. OH, and that map is not 100% accurate, it has ton of mistakes.

Yeah but it has such pretty colors.

Brother Coa wrote:

Ratius wrote:No, play a bit of everything but am a fan of the Nid fluff/background.

Ok, then. OH, and that map is not 100% accurate, it has ton of mistakes.

If you see something point it out. The map looks a fair amount out of date. There is no hivefleet gorgon.

T'au is spelt wrong. The is an apostrophe there, please learn to use it.

TrollPie wrote:T'au is spelt wrong. The is an apostrophe there, please learn to use it.

Yes the T'au is spelt Tau however complaining to the OP about it is meaningless as this map has been available for a very long time and is even in the stickys at the top of the background forum.


At the OP: The IoM does not have a 'control spere', it's empire is spread thin across the milky way like a net across the sea. Each controlled system being light years apart, often with smaller human and alien civilisations existing in between.

This is because most IoM worlds are on easily accessable warp routes instead of a continuous wave of worlds expanding from Terra.

The Segmentum Boundaries on the map really isn't that important, yeah. It's just the "Imperium Dominatus", the area the Imperium claims as mankind's domain. In reality the area in these boundaries are overrun with Orks, Tyranids, dozens of minor Xenos races, Chaos-held regions, the Tau, Rebels, Pirate empires, and so on. The Imperium are a series of systems connected by astropaths and warp travel, the physical domain isn't very important.

The galaxy is mindbogglingly vast and there are probably still undiscovered human/alien civilizations in Segmentum Solar even.

Yes the T'au is spelt Tau however complaining to the OP about it is meaningless as this map has been available for a very long time and is even in the stickys at the top of the background forum.


At the OP: The IoM does not have a 'control spere', it's empire is spread thin across the milky way like a net across the sea. Each controlled system being light years apart, often with smaller human and alien civilisations existing in between.

This is because most IoM worlds are on easily accessable warp routes instead of a continuous wave of worlds expanding from Terra.

My bad, wasnt aware it was an oldy.

Yeah I meant to say sphere of influence rather then control sphere, ofc Humanity is spread thinly with multiple alien races/threats spread throughout. Its was more the scale "end to end" that was impressive to me.

pretty sweet map, wish it gave the orks more justice

+1 internets to the person who can find the planet Metallica

if you already know where it is, you probably already have your internets.

I found a Tau planet far away from Tau space. Why is that?

Begel Dverl wrote:I found a Tau planet far away from Tau space. Why is that?

http://www.joachim-adomeit.de/wh40k/spacemap/map.html

Use this map, it has also explanations foe each planet.
Maybe it's some mistake, what planet are we talking about?

Interesting. I can't seem to find it now. I think it was called V'run.

Grey Templar wrote:+1 internets to the person who can find the planet Metallica

if you already know where it is, you probably already have your internets.

I did a double-take when I noticed that one

How old is this map, anyway? I didn't notice any of the worlds from the video games on there (subsector Aurelia, Cyrene and the Blood Ravens' recruiting worlds, Kronus and Kaurava...)

I know it was made after Fire Warrior as it has that planet. it was made prior to the DoW series so you won't find Karuva.

I found V'run on the map, it appears to be an ork world. sorry tau, it appears you either never got there, or were krumped upon landing