The Brythonnic Imperium was created simply to provide a basic map showing settlements whose names are being used in a game elsewhere on the web. As such, the map is perfectly adequate for purpose. However, compared with other ‘cartographers’ efforts here, it’s obvious that my own map-making skills are sadly quite inadequate to the task of adding ‘reasonable’ data to it - other than the very most basic settlement points!

I would therefore like to invite two or three other persons to assist me realise my vision of the ‘State of Brythonn’ & ‘The Europan Polity’ ~ being the two fundamental partners involved in ‘The Brythonnic Imperium’.

Those interested should not mind being directed from quite extensive literature that already exists about many geographic locales in ‘Brythonn’ [short form], and also through further conversation with myself. Good grasp of English will be needed, as some of my/text/prose can be rather dense! LOL.

In Brythonn [and thus presumably all-over this planet the folk of Brythonn name “Opengeo” (so named for the Spacefaring-Ark which transported their antecedents from Earth)] the native fauna & flora are descended from three separate ‘birth of life events’ that occurred virtually coterminously geologically speaking, over two billion local years ago. So Brythonnic folk face a daily battle with alien lifeforms, both domesticated and wild… and there’ll be every opportunity for those accepted to help me build Brythonn ~ to create new fauna & flora as well, marrying it to the landscape they’ll be helping me construct! There will also be much free rein upon where to emplace settlements of all sizes too… I’ve only placed 40 or so, so far - and I have a ‘Gazetter of Brythonnic Place-Names’ that holds over 3200 more (which total doesn’t include place-names from within the Europan Polity, wherefrom I have about another thousand to add!).

TASKS REQUIRED

1]. Better define the borders of the more than 60 ‘States’ federated within the Europan polity… making them more realistic and interesting. This could even possibly include creating the odd exclave or two. Find my ‘country-name markers’, centralise them and get them to ALL display at just the appropriate zoom levels. Place and position markers for each of their capital cities, again ensuring these display only at appropriate zoom levels.

2]. Take my ‘State of Brythonn’ place-names and without losing display at the zoom-level best to view the whole country, turn the appropriate places from ‘City’ to ‘Town’ [I was forced to display ALL as ‘Cities’ as they’d disappear at ‘useful magnification’ otherwise…].

3]. Apply named terrain & relief features (inc. background colouring) throughout. Also create some more maritime islands and mainland bodies of water.

4]. Delineate geological/habitat regions and also delineate Provinces/Counties. Also delineate & name suburbs of larger towns and cities.

5]. apply roads (but NOT rails!), airship routes, semaphore-network towers/pylons, ferry routes, etc. [Brythonn’s quite primitive ~ clockwork/steam-power only, but only just on the cusp of inventing rail-tracks. River barge traffic & lately steam-powered dirigible transport is the rule ~ thus there’s a strong bias toward riverside settlement in general.]

6]. Nothing much more specialised or technical is required on the map - no specific buildings or anything like that.

So, does anyone fancy the challenge? We WILL need to be in email contact, so that I can share the “Encyclopaedia Brythonnica” literature with you (4 Word files), which will give some cultural background on Brythonn too! There’s a LOT of that to read… you might like it as ‘bed-time reading’ to set you to sleep, LOL. Or, you may find it interesting and amusing. Did I mention that there’s a LOT to the reading? I hope you’ll enjoy it, anyhow.

I DO like to be consulted before any helper does set about doing an edit. It’s much easier on both parties to (a) make progress & (b) not to have to delete edits afterward. I also like applied intelligence and constructive debate; preferring more creative persons whose contributions stamp a little of their personality into my project!

Cheers & hope to hear from some soon…

Angus