Other References[]
thief1/obj/txt/banstar1.gif found real on an astrology site [1]
thief1/obj/txt/banstar2.gif Some other site [2]
thief1/obj/txt/banstar3.gif [3] star map: depiction according to Copernican system, 1661
This is an enlarged image of the skin for the Navigation Globe object used in TMA's mission 14: Precious Cargo. It represents approximately one hemisphere.
For the Navigation Globe, the beige field is the ocean, the coloured blobs are the landmasses, including the blue one. I've shifted the colours, here. The large blob seems Antarctic-ish. :p
I added a real map, and "ish" is right, but I can kinda see it, though it's not very helpful.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7641/navigationglobecolourreic1.gif http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3751/navigationglobeantarctikd6.png http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9525/resizeofavnshsrql9.gif
Considering the original image is 64x64 pixels, blobs of colour are about what one may expect. I think it's close enough to an Alternate Earth Antarctica, and since it's seen in-game, I won't dismiss it. I vertically flipped the south pole continent, and rotated it clockwise somewhat. Ehcmier 01:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)Ehcmier
Another odd ball is the new clock from T3. 8 hours?
That T3 clock bugs the heck out of me. I'd like to hear Beleg's explanation for a major City timepiece like the Clock Tower to not use numbers or correlate to any known time-keeping device--especially since numbers and twelve-hour clocks have been well-established already. If it had to do with astronomy, and the symbols were astrological, it would still break with established canon. I can't make any fanon excuse for it. Ehcmier 18:19, 16 July 2008 (UTC)Ehcmier
- It looks like the artist was going for an Orloj-like astronomical clock with all the gears and stuff, but there is no clear way of how it's supposed to be read. Sxerks 01:07, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- It's annoying, but if you look, there are pips on 12, 3, 6, 9 as primary locations, and then the remaining four are 'artistic frills' that are suspended between them. Just ignore them, and look at the primary four.Solabusca 21:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about the decision to regard the Thief world as an alternate Earth - I prefer some of the ideas that MaJiC ran with, but disagree with some of his conclusions.
- I think it's possible to come up with something familiar without referring to it as 'An Alternate-Dimension Earth', but that may just be because I don't see Thief as 'London, Another Time, Another World'; rather, I see it as it's own creation.Solabusca 21:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
- MaJiC really didn't use any evidence other than the Globe Cutscene, so it was quite limited, especially the location, which is too far south for the climate.
- The "alternate universe of Earth" isn't a locked down description, it's just saying that it has many similarities(some of which are blatantly from Earth). Definitely not London(it's on the East Coast) but the Dark Camelot beginnings do point in that general area. With the cutscene Globe the map can be quite distorted and not at all similar in specific locations, the nav globe flips and changes Antarctica a bit. So it can still be of it's creation, we just have a basis to go off of.Sxerks 01:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Casing the Joint cutscene globe[]
The wiki page (currently) says:
The last would be the globe from the Casing the Joint cutscene which depicts, though distorted, an old-world globe of N/S America, Africa, and Europe.
Could someone kindly mark on the picture: N/S America, Africa and Europe? I seem to struggle to find that at the first glance. Ktalik (talk) 23:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- The light area is the Atlantic Ocean. on the left NA with the tip of Florida and Cuba and the top of SA. On the right the gap is an opening to the Mediterranean.Sxerks (talk) 02:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- Interesting interpretation. Ktalik (talk) 10:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)