Planetary Data Sheets

I don't intend to announce this every time I make a change, but I've revitalized my setting development a bit for Space Opera X. It was originally developed on my other blog; I'm now mostly doing it on my Google Sites, where the updates are harder to spot. That's OK. I'm doing it for my own benefit, not for public consumption. The latter, if it happens, is merely serendipitous. I may export that to some other format, however, if I can find an easy way to do it (Google Takeout, maybe?) I don't really want all this work to be online on a free site where, as I've seen way back as far as Geocities, it could be taken away at any time and I'm left high and dry. As offline documents, I'm in much better shape. I'm not updating my map online necessarily either, just offline. And I created an offline LibreOffice Calc (instead of Google Sheets) listing of all my systems, so I can sort it and work on it as needed. I've color coded the hexes that have a data sheet, as well as those that are "higher priority" to get one done as well. I forgot how much fun I have just playing around and building in this sandbox. But I'm also constantly motivated, when doing so, to do something else besides tinkering with setting development, especially in an environment where it's only for me as a hobby or game in my own mind. In other words, my much-ballyhooed stories that I keep talking about wanting to write in my settings; I need to actual sit down and write some. The same is true of my Dark Fantasy X stuff, but my return to Star Wars: The Old Republic has me more in a space opera mood at the moment.

I'm also considering renaming the Carrick Grand Marches. I don't remember now if it is a coincidence, or subconscious, or if I actually literally borrowed the name Carrick from Carrick Station, the "Republic Fleet"'s official name when you're on it, but I'm less and less happy with the idea. But, to be honest with you, while I originally envisioned the Carrick Grand Marches as the "protagonist" region of the setting, I'm kind of migrating somewhat to some of the other Bernese Colonies, or even some of the non-Bernese worlds as a better choice. 

I also, as I was going through my map and making my spreadsheet, noticed a few minor errors. An uncolored hex here and there. One hex that was mislabeled; instead of 1730, it was located in hex 1630, for instance. Which do I want to keep; update the map, or update the data sheet? Minor stuff. Yet another reason to keep it offline.