Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-9141454-20160114212456/@comment-4242472-20160115155509

I considered using Space Engine in a reworked map of Andromeda (Andromeda's orientation compared to the Milky Way makes top-down images of Andromeda difficult), could be used for other galaxies too. Post-processing and photoshop could be used to make Borealis, since one of its arms is supposed to be obliterated.

The other issue I suppose we have is territory mapping. We've kept to solid, coloured blobs but that may be an outdated format for a galactic map. Rather we might have to find some method of hatching when dealing with two nations' borders. Since unlike land territory, stars move at different rates to each other. Give it a thousand years and one colony could have crossed the current style of border into another's territory.