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Coffee House Press, 2023. English translation by Sarah Booker.

Hi, all. A few years back I had my B5 Security Manual scanned, and I'm in the process of converting it to ePub format for ereaders. There are some images that spanned two pages that I've had to stitch together as best I could, but there's a bit of a gap where the inner edge of the page was cut off.

I've done image and web searches on several search engines but can only find lower resolution images - ideally I'd need a minimum of 1024px wide, ideally more - and similar but not identical ones.

I figure if the smaller images exist online, there might be larger versions of the same. If anyone has a higher resolution, complete version of the first two images (the full-station diagrams) I'd appreciate it. For fun, I've also included the cross-sections for Yellow, Blue, Red, Grey, and Green sectors, in that order.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Edit: I don't want this to seem like spam, but the schematics were drawn by Tim Earls; a poster of some of them are available on his Etsy. I'm happy to take the link down if mods don't approve, but I wanted to give credit where it was due.

I was thinking the other day about Lena. For those unaware, it's a [tastefully cropped, usually] Playboy centrefold from the '70s that ended up being used by graphics programmers as a test image.

Today, we typically use bespoke test images, but I've come across tutorials and blogs that still use it today, presumably for its historical significance. But I think it's really interesting that the image's legacy in the context of graphics programming has long surpassed its original intention. Like, Lena (now Lenna), nor the photographer could ever have guessed at the time that it would become a piece of computer science history.

I'm sure there are other examples of this, but the only thing that comes to mind in the moment are some memes, where it's a shot from a show or film that have been given new context (e.g., lady telling at crabby cat; Pedro Pascal and Nicholas Cage in a car) and have outlived or become more famous than their source material.

So, I'm curious if there's a name for this sort of phenomenon - something like "transcontextualism" might do. And, can anyone think of other examples?

A while back I had redone a "lore book" containing in-game encyclopedia entries for the classic X trilogy, as well as one for Rebirth; and I've just finished one for X4, so I figured I'd put a link to it here. It's available in epub (responsive) and PDF formats.

X1-3: https://archive.org/details/x-universe-x-universe-lorebook-ego-soft/X-Universe%20Lorebook%20-%20EgoSoft%20v2.0.1/

XR: https://archive.org/details/x-universe-x-rebirth-lorebook-ego-soft

X4: https://archive.org/details/x-4-foundations-lorebook-egosoft/page/n1/mode/2up

For the X4 one, a lot of entries were lacking definitions, and in some cases they had neither images nor images, so they may have been left out (licenses and ship modifications, for example). A lot of station modules are image only, since they don't have in-game definitions.

Anyway, Maybe some of you may enjoy this. I really liked reading the sector and ship definitions in particular, since they offer some neat looks into the wider lore of the setting.