Space Opera X

My Space Opera X setting has NO development whatsoever, other than what exists under the old Ad Astra name. Which is fine; it wasn't ever really my intention to do much to the setting other than tweak a few small details and otherwise leave it as is. 

One of the tweaks that needs to be done, however, is to rename the Carrick Grand Marches. Whether subconsciously or consciously and then I forgot, I used the same name as the Republic Fleet in SWTOR for this space-geographical feature, and I don't like that. I think I'm going to rename it to the Rodachan Grand Marches. 

I don't think there's anything else right now that desperately needs updating. What I do need to do is migrate my old Google Sites from Ad Astra to an offline source. Yeah, I think I'd like to go old-school and have it on a .doc file or something like that on my hard drive rather than "on the cloud." I may need to redo the map again (sigh) but there were a lot of other little minor errors that I'd discovered in the transfer of my map anyway. I also need to figure out how I'm going to organize the information. Single file per system, in folders by larger political grouping? Or something else?

I'm leaning towards documents that are geared towards a single political entity, but within them having each hex be its own page, or even a two-page spread if I use the images that I originally used on my blog (none of which I have permission to use, of course, but then again, this document is for me, not public consumption.)

It's funny that I initially envisioned the Rodachan Grand Marches, under their old name, as the "protagonist" area, and I now see it as a little bit of a strange place instead. The Temple is probably my protagonist area, now, while many of the other Bernese colonial systems started to grow on my more than the Rodachan Marches did. I actually think the Emerus Marches better encapsulates the Bernese as a "protagonist" people than the Rodachan people. Most of the other colonial systems are heading more towards independence, where the Rodachan is likely to have more "Tories" than the other colonies when real independence is eventually called for.

In any case, my Ad Astra setting has had a years-long protracted development, and some of the stuff that I worked on earlier doesn't really quite fit with the stuff I've worked on more recently, and it's possible that as the Carrick Grand Marches becomes the Rodachan Grand Marches, they'll get updated a bit to fit better, and will just be a bit tweaked. We'll see.