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//- meta
	slug: "latbs/maps"
	lang: en
	title: "Maps"
	category: meta
	pageCreated: "2023-06-16"
	pageUpdated: "2024-06-01"

extends ../../../views/latbs/layout.pug

block heading
	h1 Maps of #[i Looking at the Big Sky]

block content
	figure
		a(href="/maps/mars_2080.jpeg")
			img(src="/maps/mars_2080_preview.png" alt="A map of Mars in 2080, showing vague plans of terraforming and blobby, undefined sovereignty on a red planet")
		figcaption Mars in 32 #[+sc("AA")] / 2080 #[+sc("CE")]. (Click to view in full size.)
	figure
		a(href="/garden/media/LatBS_english_final.png")
			img(src="/garden/media/LatBS_english_final.png" alt="A map showing Earth in 2025, strikingly similar to today but different in all the oddest places")
		figcaption #[a.geography(href="/latbs/earth") Earth] in 2025, forty-five years after #[a.history(href="/latbs/pod") the point of divergence]. (Click to view in full size.)
	figure
		a(href="/latbs/media/2338locator-min.png")
			img(src="/latbs/media/2338locator-min.png" alt="A simplified map of Earth’s polities in 2338")
		figcaption An old map showing #[a.geography(href="/latbs/earth") Earth] in the timeline’s then-“present day” of 2338.#[+sn(1)] No longer canon except in the broadest strokes, but kept around as a guide for myself once i catch back up in the lore. (Click to view in full size.)
	+sn(1)
		p This map only includes quite solid national borders, and does not show, among other things, internal divisions of federations, mobile sea-steads, atmospheric habitats, anything in the Astrapelago, names of countries, major cities, overland topography, or the machinations of West Africa’s Kurufaba, more akin to a trade network of intricately overlapping authorities than a single country.