This set of drawings is about an idea I had many years ago to sit down and draw a massive starship capable of travelling the galaxy at sub-light speeds. I soon realized that just me drawing it by hand would take several lifetimes. This was in 1970.

So I put it to one side. Those paper and pencil drafting-type drawings are lost.

I found Profantasy’s mapping software and started drawing my old AD&D first edition campaign and putting it up on a web site. This would have been about 1999.

After a year or so of that, I found a few pages in a box depicting this star ship.

I saw that Profantasy had an add-on that could assist me in drawing deckplans and entire starships.

I purchased the software and made a few drawings.

Work took up much of my time, and I spent most of my spare time working on my Crestar, my AD&D first edition website.

When Cosmographer Pro was updated to work with Campaign Cartographer 3, I downloaded it, and started mapping.

As I have time I’ll update the drawings here.

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Shass, map

One of several photos taken from orbit, before the satellite mapping this world stopped working.

Scientists are trying to determine why a stone keep and two wooden buildings would be built next to vacuum type modules.

Rather typical climate for a human inhabited planet. Ice Ages are in the distant past. Rather Earth-Like, which is why the first interstellar explorers gave it such a good review.

The Second Survey found that the monitoring equipment had vanished from the surface. They added a new one on the planet’s moon, and one in orbit.

Third Survey landed on the moon, and only found the monitoring gear on that body. The one in orbit was gone. They built a base on the moon, partially underground.

Shass, ecology ?

The scientists in the underground spaces on the moon think some one or some thing down there on Shass is joking around with them.

Some days there are knights in chain mail fighting near castles.

Other days, there are dinosaurs walking the surface.

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Shellesh, orbiting city, home of Jolly Sontarg

The Shell aka Shellesh is a city orbiting a G2 type star at 1 AU distance from the star.

This map isn’t to scale. It basically shows the layout of the orbiting city. The darker of the 2 water colors are the deeper water. Light color water is shallow and tends to dry out. The smaller reddish areas are corridors or transport areas, not living quarters. This ‘sketch’ map shows only the main areas of the main level.

A simple thing water. Too often in the past of this city it has been used as a political tool. Mostly kindly, but since resources are limited, the administrators can be ruthless.

An interesting fellow, Scholar Jones. Claims Humanity came from a planet called Mars. Can’t argue with him, he is also in charge of the Water Board.

Every one in The Shell says there is plenty of water; however, where do they get it?

The nearest planet is still in its local version of the Cambrian Period. The water has something in it that killed anyone who landed there.

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Gorshon Tornal is a Park Guide. He doesn’t actually fish, there aren’t any fish in the lakes and ponds, the net is just for show.

Of course, there were fish, but bored passengers ate them.

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One of the early game rooms after passengers re-discovered AD&D first edition. The L-shaped areas are game tables. Game supplies are kept in the adjacent storage area.

There are several of these now, 5 years into this multi-generational journey.

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