That Silent Hunter IV World.....

[Seminole]

...Really appears to be an alien world or at least a fictional one. Don't get yer dander up I'm just observing not complaining.

I go up to the bridge ,F4 view, and look up to see stars obscuring the clouds which for a certainty means that the stars are closer to earth than are the clouds.

Then take a gander at the magical mystery map..you know..the one that turns dark or light to indicate dawn, day,dusk and night..not where I am currently... but back at base thousands of miles away. I'll bet these weren't WWII standard issue maps.

But to get to the real point..take a look at this map:




I have never noticed it before but the entire Southern hemisphere is "DARK" compared to the Northern hemisphere which is "Light." Split, as you can see, into halves along the Equator.

Now after I saw this I was thinking...hmmmm... maybe the SHIV World rotates not from West to East but rather North to South...or even South to North. But no dice.

As it so happened I was steaming almost exactly along the equator when I made this observation. I then turned hard to port expecting to encounter nightfall. Instead, within a few miles I ran into heavy weather...gale force winds,heavy fog and heavy precipitation. So, I came about to head north of the equatorial line and I was back into entirely clear sailing in a matter of minutes.

So then that must mean that dark tinted portion of the map..i.e...the entire Southern Hemisphere..is gripped in a raging storm of Biblical proportions.. ...since surely nothing like this has occured since Noah's Flood....:hmm:

The SHIV world is indeed a strange one...but I like it never-the-less.

BTW...I'm weeks into the patrol now and the map is still divided into dark and light halves. On the way back to base I intend to dip south again just to see if that perfect storm is still in business.