Struggle for Klegon Suggestion Thread

I'd do it like:

Planet: Name of the planet, including a numerical designation if required
Biomes: this includes both planetary biome and "planet type", since those categories seem redundant as "Gas Giant" can be put here
System: this tells us what star system it is, making "home star" redundant
Affiliation: this tells us which faction controls the world, or if it's contested, or independant, etc
Species: this shorter worded version is the same as "sentient species" and would tell us what the planet's dominant intelligent life, if any, is

Info:

A brief writeup about the planet including anything not mentioned above. This is where, if it's relevant, we'd include info that may be in the other categories we've cut to simplify reading the entry. The above list of categories is an "at a glance" reference to the planet. In this space, we can be more detailed and descriptive but this should be a single paragraph and should be written concisely.

Example:

Planet: Theris
Biomes: Earth-like, predominant plains, "garden world"
System: Maesa Cluster, orbiting Maesa Prime
Affiliation: Centuri Conglomeration
Species: Therians

Info:

Theris is the only life-bearing planet in the Maesa Cluster. The Cluster made an ideal target for Terran expansion due to its biomass-rich Theris and mineral-rich asteroids, planets, and moons in the Maesa Cluster. Terran colonization of Maesa set Therian development back by decades, reducing the local populations of flora and fauna to drastic levels, and left them in resource poverty even after the Centuri liberated the planet. Theris is slowly coming back as a localized hub with the recent establishing of a spaceport and pilot training academy. As Centuri builds up its military, Theris has managed to position itself as a vital addition in exchange for the resources it needs and is currently a valued member-planet of the Conglomeration.

The size of a planet is only going to be relevant if it's relevant. Like other details, it can be included in the "Info" paragraph if it's important. I'm not sure why the size of a planet would be generally important. Can you explain your thoughts on it? Maybe there's something I'm overlooking!

mccoyed That is a much cleaner classification system, but I think planet size does kind of matter, as it gives the map maker (me) a way to determine the scale of the other celestial bodies around it. So maybe for like just casual talk about the planet, size might not matter, but when it comes to making an accurate, scaled map, those little details are really kind of needed.

mccoyed  So like when I am putting together the different systems, planet size kind of matters, as it would be odd to have say a planet around earth size, and a planet around say the size of jupiter, be the same size on the map. Granted it doesn't matter hugely, as I can just use forced perspective to make planets look different sizes, it is still nice to have the specific size, as that makes my job that much easier.

I have never played mass effect, could you perhaps give me an example of the galaxy map?

i Was thinking that maybe we could have the Merc's as there own Faction because of the fact that the Nova league is a league and not all outlaws combined in one Faction when you think long and hard about it and plus Mercs are for everyone soo they could be hired by the nasty league members, or the sand people of centuri, or the Tree huggers of Terra and they show off there build of the factions they work for and also collaborate if they plan on working with other people instead of being labelled league members.

Can we integrate a rank system?

Speaking of which, Jackson, do we have a sigil for Centuri? I checked the General Info thread and didn't see it. If not, we should claim the Classic Space Logo.

We do not have an official sigil yet.  Since we can't have the CS logo, suggestions are welcome.