Difference between revisions of "Oolite planet list"
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=== Where do these crazy names come from? === | === Where do these crazy names come from? === | ||
| − | If you read through the source code and/or binary for either Elite or Oolite, you will not find any text containing the list of planets and their properties. The entire universe (including the famous [http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/elite/faq.html edible poet]) is constructed programmatically (using a truncated Fibonacci function) from a handful of seed numbers and the string " | + | If you read through the source code and/or binary for either Elite or Oolite, you will not find any text containing the list of planets and their properties. The entire universe (including the famous [http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/elite/faq.html edible poet]) is constructed programmatically (using a truncated Fibonacci function) from a handful of seed numbers and the strings "ABOUSEITILETSTONLONUTHNOAL" (used by the planet description string) and "..LEXEGEZACEBISOUSESARMAINDIREA.ERATENBERALAVETIEDORQUANTEISRION" which is used to generate all the system names in the 8 Galaxies (the periods indicates placeholders where the name generation can be terminated early). The algorithm was reverse-engineered from the original BBC disk by [[Christian Pinder]], and implemented in Objective-C for Oolite. |
== Galaxies == | == Galaxies == | ||
Revision as of 02:19, 3 June 2008
Overview
Although this list was taken from Oolite the data applies equally well to the BBC version of Classic Elite (and some other versions).
Each entry shows the system number, name, coordinates, tech level, inhabitants, government and a comment on the system.
Note that references to a particular galaxy in Oolite (in a Planetinfo.plist entry for example), should subtract 1 from the galaxy number – Galaxy 1 is referred to as 0, etc. In the same way, references to a planet must subtract 1 from the planet number.
A spreadsheet of all galaxies can be downloaded in Excel format or Open Document format.
Where do these crazy names come from?
If you read through the source code and/or binary for either Elite or Oolite, you will not find any text containing the list of planets and their properties. The entire universe (including the famous edible poet) is constructed programmatically (using a truncated Fibonacci function) from a handful of seed numbers and the strings "ABOUSEITILETSTONLONUTHNOAL" (used by the planet description string) and "..LEXEGEZACEBISOUSESARMAINDIREA.ERATENBERALAVETIEDORQUANTEISRION" which is used to generate all the system names in the 8 Galaxies (the periods indicates placeholders where the name generation can be terminated early). The algorithm was reverse-engineered from the original BBC disk by Christian Pinder, and implemented in Objective-C for Oolite.
