Stellar Sector Generator

The Stellar Sector Generator is mainly intended as a star system generator for Sci-Fi RPG using (for the most part) scientific sound formulae. It is written in Rexx and can run on any platform for which ooRexx is available (currently Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, and SUN Solaris®). It also still runs on OS/2 Rexx if you use the RxMath library from the Rexx Math Bumper Pack which can be obtained on Patrick TJ McPhee's page.

The program was originally written as a script for OS/2 Rexx to be used in a MegaTraveller campaign, but has grown by leaps and bounds ever since. Now it sports the following highlights:

different stellar regions (disc, bulge, halo, open cluster and globular cluster)
stellar populations
abundance of heavy elements in the early star system
multiple (binary, trinary and quaternary) star systems
brown dwarfs
a fairly well designed system for life, temperature, climate and atmospheric gases on planets
human-understandable ASCII output in RFC 822 "record-jar" compliant form
additional ChView .lst output

Some of the formulae are derived from accrete by Stephen H. Dole, but for the most part, they are lifted from various scientific articles and supplemented by some RPG tables and good reasoning.

Copyright © 1995-1998, 2003-2006 by Stephan Aspridis and Jens Maskus. All Rights Reserved. SSG is the sole property of Stephan Aspridis and Jens Maskus and must not be altered, copied or reproduced in any form without permission from one of the copyright owners, except for personal use.

Comments and suggestions can be sent by e-mail to ssg.rex@arcor.de

Screenshot 1: The command interface

Screenshot 2: A 20ly region of a large sector (shown by ChView, grids are on)

Screenshot 3: The entire 100ly sector (shown by ChView, grids are off)

A sample star system

Download SSG 1.0.0RC3