Talk:Andromeda Galaxy/@comment-5362365-20130204150133/@comment-4844180-20130204171415

umm...We can't do a territory map...At least not for whole of Andromeda or a few certain Grids.

This is because of the amount of stars needed to cover that area. See that rather small picture. It has an apparent star count of 1 trillion.

To get a spec on that map you would need a large (and dense) civilisation to have a territory blotted out. We could possibly only plot about 4 civilisations currently, and it would be very messy.

Aswell as that, the territories would be always changing with wars, alliances and expansion. So the picture would never be up-to-date.

Thirdly, it would be a bit pointless. We don't need one and we would have to give away some places the civ's have under control and don't wish to share.

It would also make it seem as if the Andromeda Galaxy was more crowded than it actually is. So in end, we can't have one. It wouldn't make sense, it wouldn't tell us enough and we could never update enough for it to be correct.