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Rjufa Crater - Thors' Legacy

Entirely fictional but heck, it could be real.

Preface

"You will pay for this Loki, on my word!" cried Thor and with that Thor raised his hammer and struck. The ground was mortally wounded, the earth violently razed and even the walls of Asgard suffered the more for it, or so the local legend would have us believe. The giant Skrymir shrugged. Freyr smiled. Odin chuckled, "boys will be boys".

From the backstory (see discussions for full story):-

"I could now prove the contradiction of limestone mountains being a result of a volcano. This place never grew up and eroded from the top, it was bulldozed up and out from beneath." (Dr. Bernard Joburg).

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And here you are, millenia later, enjoying the fruits of Nordic temperament or indeed, astronomical aggravation.

Now. Down to business. I present a map made purely for the OCD in you. Or the engineer. Perhaps the logistician. Heck, you might even be a Bob the Builder type. Regardless, I think you'll enjoy this map because it can be played large or small, easy or hard, complex or simple - all dependent on how you wish to play it.

It's a fixed city (only 12 of them), fixed industry map and it's been designed by hand by an experienced player who knows what will work and what will not. You can frolic on the southern plains and amass a simple fortune or engineer solutions in the rugged north to extract the hardest of the resources. You can value add to the north and haul southward, or haul the primary resources to the south and do it there. Enjoy multiple mountain passes and climbs, or exploit the water passages with a shipping empire. Mix and match - play it how you like.

You can expect huge completely flat areas for those complex freight hubs and you'll find almost all cities allow for easy connection and expansion. This map is by players for players and I doubt a more comprehensive play map exists.

It's as big as they come. 587 square kilometres, 29km x 20km. (7k x 5k). I've written a lengthy backstory for the map (see discussions) - in fact I create all my maps around the backstory - so for anyone seeking the geographical explanation, perhaps even the place naming, that's where I'd go.

Lastly, I'm certainly no geologist, cosmologist or mythologist, so keep in mind the conflagration depicted in this map, composed of Norse lore, geology, cosmology and the myriad of "facts" presented is and will always be a total nonsense. After all, it's just a map :)


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** IMPORTANT STUFF - TECHNICAL NOTES

- This is an experimental size map. This *must* be set to true to play this map.
- Due to the nature and structure of the map, connecting roads *must* be turned off.

See TECHNICAL ISSUES in discussions.

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Please enjoy and if you have any comments or feedback or want to share images of your builds using this map, feel free to drop into the discussion area. Take a moment to do an upvote too. You'd be amazed how far a little appreciation goes.

Silky Rough April 2017

This map is original work and is restricted to Steam Workshop. Permission to upload and make available on any other site is NOT granted without written permission from the map author.