Astro Empires guide and tutorial

Map and distances in Astro Empires

Many players ask the same questions about traveling inside galaxies and between them, because they do not understand coordinate system and distances in Astro Empires Universe. Here is the text from official tutorial:

„Astro Empires uses a specialized coordinate system to denote locations, as detailed below (all numbers are separated by colons):

- First, the galaxy coordinate is designated by the initial of whatever server is being viewed followed by a number representing the specific galaxy on that server. For example, in server Alpha, the first galaxy is represented by 'A00'.

- Next, the region coordinate is designated by what row and column of the galaxy it is in. For example, the region in row 5 and the column 1 is represented by the number '51', for a region address of A00:51.

- Third, the system coordinate is designated by what row and column of the region it is in, in the same manner as the region coordinate. So a system in the top-right corner of the region would be represented by the number '09', for a system address of A00:51:09.

- Fourth, the astro coordinate is designated by the star orbit number and the planetary orbit number. For example, the first planet in a system is represented by 10 (first star orbit, first planetary orbit), and any moons around that planet would be represented by 11, 12, 13, and so on. Thus, the first planet for the above system would have an astro address of A00:51:09:10.“

A galaxy is divided into 100 square regions, laid out in a 10 x 10 grid. Each region can contain stars; some regions have several dozen stars, while others only have a few (and sometimes none at all). Each region is 10 light years wide and 10 light years high meaning that entire galaxy is 100 light years acros.

The problem is when you travel between galaxies as they are not set up like stars inside the galaxies. Galaxies are positioned in sets (also known as galaxy strings) and distance between two galaxies in the same set is 200ly. This look approximately like this

–200ly-–200ly--200ly-–200ly-–200ly-–200ly-–200ly-–200ly-–200ly-

If you want to travel from C09 to C10 then you have to jump to another galaxy set, and that route is 2000ly long. Every time you want to visit galaxy in another galaxy set you have to jump over and the trip is 2000ly, meaning that from C09 to C20 or C30 or C40 distance is the same, 2000ly. But what if I want to travel from C08 to C15? Then the trip will look like this

– 200ly – – 2000ly – – 200ly – – 200ly – – 200ly – – 200ly – – 200ly –

Or in short from C08 to C15 is 3800ly.

To explain it little more, when you are in the galaxy set you can't jump to another galaxy set unless you go to an end of galaxy set. So if you are located in C08, you have to go to C09 to be able to jump into another galaxy set, and then you can only jump to the edge of that galaxy set and then travel through the set to the destination. Here is table of distances:

It is fairly difficult to show it in image because it is geometrically impossible but space can be curved and by so it is possible to travel like that.

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