Now to let everyone in on a little secret. My cousin and I have been secretly sharing an account over at Bolter and Chainsword, where we’re collectively known under the handle ‘Espada Azul‘. It’s a bit of an in-joke between us, with him being ‘Espada’ (as the gung-ho male) and me being ‘Azul’ (since Blue is my favorite color).
Anyway a few weeks before me and my sister left for the United States for vacation, ‘Espada Azul’ got involved in a little forum project in the Bolter and Chainsword, over in the Liber Astartes subforum (where most of the D.I.Y. or Do It Yourself Chapter backgrounds are hammered out), trying to map out the domains or homeworlds of the Chapters that were birthed from the Liber subforum… Or at least, it started that way.
This is pretty much the result of it.
- Warhammer 40000 Starmap Version 2.0
Go on, click on the image to see just how BIG (and detailed) it is.
Yes, the file is massive, but it would have to be, since it has to contain most of the Astartes Homeworlds shown in the 5th Edition Codex: Space Marines, as well as many of the planets named in Games Workshop and Black Library works over the years.
While we tried to triangulate where most of the Loyalist and Renegade Chapters printed in the Librarium’s Liber Astartes section are located, some entries are just too vague (and their authors out of contact) to pinpoint, so it’s in no way complete.
Still it’s a useful tool for the folks over there at Liber to position their nascent Chapters in. Space is a massive place, and it pays to know who your neighbors are in the galactic neighborhood.
Update Notes:
January 02, 2010 Update
- Added Knights Seraphic Homeworld
- Added Legio Solemnitas Homeworld
- Added Iron Hands Homeworld
- Added handy-dandy Scale.
[...] Oh, and a slight segue… I updated the Liber Astartes Galaxy Star Map to add the new entries in the Librarium, as well as tweak some of the stuff that were forgotten the first time around (yes, I put Medusa in now, you can stop bugging me about it Iron Hands players) like, oh, a note on the scale. Check it out here! [...]
hi, im looking for a world (or place on a world) called Doom Gorge. its where the only recorded information regarding the Black Guard (Loyalist chapter, successors of the Raven Guard second founding) exists. They are recorded as having a resounding victory over the Tyranids, while hardley losing any of their own. anyone came across this yet?
thanks
John
It looks like the aside from being told that the battle happened, there’s not much else about this Doom Gorge (indeed, there’s a single mention of it in the 3rd Edition codex), and it’s not been pinpointed on any published map by either Games Workshop, Forgeworld, or Fantasy Flight Games (which gave us the area around the Hadex Anomaly as its setting for Deathwatch). Sorry, can’t help with this one.
Hay i know this is an old post but i downloaded your map for reference a ways back with others and noticed yours has a scale to go off of. i’m took it upon myself to try to make a 3d replica based on your map in Universe Sandbox also available in steam. I’m telling you this to kinda say your map is one of the best to use since it has a scale and making it easier for a very large challenge and i kinda whated to let you guys know.