Inner Solar System Guide

This is my first attempt to create a Solar System Map, depicting the various locations and positions of the four inner planets, along with the Lagrangian points for Sun-Earth, Sun-Mars, and Earth-Mars.

Orbital Dynamics (around which gravitational body you're orbiting, your place in orbit around that body, and the time/power/fuel/energy/ needed to travel along an orbit of that body to achieve a better position to deploy your weapons) will play a vital role in the depiction of combat in New Haven. Almost all space oriented combat occurring during the series, takes place with both sides in orbit of a large gravitational force, whether it be a planet, moon, or Lagrangian point.

For right now, this is a simple guide designed to provide a very basic sense of where things are in the solar system in April of 2164. It could stand to be a fair bit more precise and definitely needs some work in that regard. For now though, it's just a simple graphical aid for story planning.

Anyway, I thought I'd share it in case anyone else is interested.

Edit: I've changed the background. I think the black makes it stand out a bit more. I've also tweaked a few things, nothing major really.

Updated one more time to adjust the background.

1/16/12: I was going through some inkscape files earlier today and realized I had a new version of this map that I hadn't posted yet. I might make a few more changes....but nothing major.