Twilight Imperium 4th edition 5 player spacers

This is a first version of spacers for creating a symmetrical map for 5 players for Twilight Imperium 4th edition.

I know hyperlanes work fine mechanically, but I never liked the psychological aspect of fake distance.

With these spacers, you can have the exact same map mechanically, but full symmetrical.

You'll need a single print of the center tile which hosts Mecatol.

You'll need 10 prints of the half spacer, which fits on my Ender S1 Pro bed (do 5 and 5 mirrored to have matching textures).

If you have a large enough bed, you can do with 5 prints of the full spacer.

I used default print settings for PLA.

I may add a variant with a tiny mecatol center tile if there is demand; it makes for a more compact map, and less printed plastic (but means you have to keep mecatol itself next to the map).

How I Designed This

The shapes were created programmatically using ShapeScript (macOS only; sorry). Nothing was handmodelled. I did learn a bunch about regular polygon geometry through making this.

The ShapeScript language and underlying (Swift) libraries are open source, as is the viewer app which I did the STL export with, but you can support its developer by buying the app (and it means you won't need XCode to compile it yourself).

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