Well, it seems that perhaps I spoke a little to quickly about things settling down at work. One employee started leave for birth of a child which was fully expected and accounted for when scheduling everyone else. Another employee begged to pick up as many of those extra hours as possible then gave 3 days notice and quit. Now I am back to a seven day work week with half of those being 14 hour days.

Not giving up on this though. Just gonna be slow going until I am fully staffed at work again. I've been thinking about the comments so far and trying to work out a little more detailed reasoning why this particular style of a star chart/map would be useful for navigational purposes. Haven't got all the details worked out just yet but I am leaning towards something akin to the stars/systems being channel markers in a gravitational river of sorts with the technology used to achieve FTL speeds being effected by the stellar "gravity wells."

GW