In the above example, distance and geography are meaningless since the cannon of Star Trek routinely involves long wars with enemies from impossible distances, and conveniently mutable travel times between empires.
That might be all you really need to say. It has been done again and again.īut carving a photograph into political boundaries doesn't tell us much about anything, except the relative sizes of the "empires" which we can infer to imply power and resources (although our own maps suggest this is a bad indicator of either), and which "nations" share common borders (which in a 3D world is almost nonsensical).īut the narrative message is clear: the galaxy is divided into political realms and their areas of dominance. You can carve up a galactic disk into colonial empires like Africa, if that is the metaphor you are trying to make.
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