User Guide

WELCOME TO ALPHA CENTAURI

CHAPTER 2

understand that the long stretches of rough land at the top and bottom of the

screen represent the edge of Planet’s uninhabitable polar regions.

MAP COORDINATES

Map coordinates are

numbered starting from

(0, 0), with the vertical

axis first. The vertical

axis is numbered from

the top of the map to

the bottom, and the

horizontal is numbered

from left to right, start-

ing at the point where

the World View (see

World View, p. 24)

wraps. Thus (14, 22) would be nearer the upper left corner of the World View,

while (101, 77) would be much lower and farther to the right.

ARCHIPELAGOES

Some land squares are connected by a thin line between their diagonal cor-

ners, with water squares on either side of this line. These squares are con-

nected by an archipelago of small islands, and these intersections can be

crossed both by sea units (from one water square to the other), and by land

units (along the archipelago).