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Sarna Unified Cartography Kit (SUCKit aka SUCK)
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The kit is comprised of:Background:
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1)Systems: indicates system coordinates and faction ownership in select yearsBattleTechWiki:System coordinates
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2)Factions: contains the different factions in BattleTech, their assigned unique ID, colors assigned to them (for mapping purposes), foundation and dissolution years, and the number of systems they posses in a given yearDiscussion:
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3)Pathfinding: jump route calculator based on available dataBattleTechWiki talk:System coordinates
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4)Coordinates Conversion: contains the raw coordinates from PDF sources and the formula for converting them to the base 2764 map orientation and scale
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5)Nebulae & Cluster Sizes: contains the raw coordinates from PDF sources and the formula for converting them to the base 2764 map orientation and scale, as well as their scaled heights and widths based on current maps
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6)Process Write-up: brief description of what went through each task that led to the output that you see before you
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Credits: the people who have contributed to the SUCKit from its early years up to the present
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VersionChangesNotesUpdated bySources used for update
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2025.08.011) corrected faction ownership typos on Helen and Erit Cluster
2) Corrected incorrect coordinates of Fell Wind		Thank you, Aaron Gullickson and G B for spotting the error. It makes me happy to see people point out mistakes that otherwise would have gone unnoticedVolt
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2025.03.031) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Marik 2571 map
2) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Liao 2571 map
3) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Davion 2571 map
4) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Kurita 2571 map
5) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Steiner 2571 map
6) Added MOC, OA faction ownership data from Handbook: Major Periphery States 2571 maps
7) Marked cells containing conflicting faction ownership data in Red. Entered best guess in the absence of official ruling
8) Renamed Dark Nebula in Systems sheet to Erit Cluster, using the coordinates of Dark Nebula
9) Restored 3030 faction data from a previous backup due to an overwrite error (still pending verification)
10) Corrected typo on start year of Vesper Marches and Malthus Confederation
11) Added more faction Sarna links		1) I need a long break
2) If anyone can cite sources and page numbers for start and end year of the various factions, I'd be forever grateful. I'm trying to trace back where I got some of the start years but am unable to find the sources		Volt
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2025.03.021) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Kurita 2319 map
2) Added undiscovered faction ownership data source from Handbook: House Davion 2317 map and Handbook: House Marik 2271 map
3) Added faction ownership data from Handbook: House Steiner 2341 map
4) Renamed Tsamma		Volt
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2025.03.011) Optimized some formulas in various sheets to reduce loading time
2) Corrected swapped height and width information on nebulae and clusters		Volt
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2025.02.041) Updated faction ownership of various deep periphery systems based on actual available data (removed ambiguous assumptions)
2) Added faction ownership from Handbook: House Marik 2271 map
3) Added faction ownership from Handbook: House Davion 2317 map
4) Added faction ownerwhip from Handbook: House Liao 2367 map
5) Added Sarna links of factions
6) Updated ownership of affected systems from FS to FCF until 3063
7) Changed Chaos March to Independent from 3057-3068 and removed Chaos March as a faction
8) Added color coding to the faction ownership data. white cells are confirmed ownership data from maps or text, yellow are blank and assumed ownership status
9) Removed SLDF as a faction and restored TH faction ownership in 2783-2786
10) Changed I from Independent to Inhabited		Reread Liberation of Terra vol 2 and corrected a mistake madde in the 2025.01.02 edit.
Technically the FedCom ceased to be in 3067 when Yvonne declared the FedCom to be the FedSuns again.
I restarted cleanup of the faction ownership data by going through all previous maps (and some sourcebook text I had access to, plus articless on Sarna of course) and decided to mark confirmed faction ownership in white and all assumed or interpolated date in yellow
Incorporated updates from House Arano book (missed several faction ownership from maps) and maps from the BattleTech Universe Sourcebook		Volt
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2025.02.031) Renamed Valencia (Nueva Castile) to Ascua (the star's name)
2) Renamed Rosetta to Ptolemy (the star's name)
3) Added Sarna link for Cielo
4) Major change to scaling formula for increased accuracy, affecting 125 systems, with the most significant impact on systems in the rimward periphery, particularly those in the Aurigan Reach
5) Merged Polybius and Appian
6) Jumps > 30LY in SIPS now appear as purple broken lines instead of solid lines to show viewer that the jump required intermediate jump points to reach the next system		I decide to use statistical tools to modify my scaling and translation formulas. Before, I just used the average of the scales of the reference pairs, now I'm using the Least Squares method (a form of linear regression) to minimize measurement errors.
Turns out Appian and Polybius are the same system. Initially thought it was two systems because some of the coordinates of the map from house Arano shifted around, which caused some confusion.		Volt
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2025.02.021) Reduced the number of named ranges and amended the SIPS accordingly in order to reduce spreadsheet read iterations to further speed it up
2) Optimized SIPS extended jump pathfinding to skip over systems that bring the path farther from the destination if along the way an extended jump would be triggered anyway. Explanation in the Process Write-up sheet
3) Changed >30LY jump to evaluate all valid neighbors that fall within the criteria instead of just selecting the closest one in order to increase pathfinding flexibility.
4) Switched from A* pathfinding to Bidirectional A* pathfinding, reducing runtime by approximately 30%		Okay, so I wasn't supposed to work on the SIPS anymore but I just happened to think of more optimizations to the code. I might design a flowchart (eventually) that better explains how the code works.Volt
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2025.02.011) Upgraded the SIPS to include pathfinding visualization. Now, whenever the Find Path button is clicked, a sidebar will appear after a path is found, which will show the entirety of the Inner Sphere and Deep Periphery without any borders, and a blue line that will connect the starting system to the destination system
2) Added SIPS menu bar item that will allow users to draw the map (without a path) and find a path. The menu bar item will appear as soon as the script is authorized by the user.		It took me a couple of tries to get the pathfinding visualization to work, and apparently GAS will automatically deploy the visualization without any additional coding necessary on the file accessing the SIPS library.
This might already be the final version of the SIPS as it is already a working tool. I do not know coding well enough to implement faction borders and different system sizes, but if anyone is willing to lend a hand, I'd appreciate it.		Volt
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2025.01.041) Made minor corrections to Nebula & Clusters Sizes sheet
2) logic changes in SIPS pathfinding to improve performance
3) Deployed the SIPS as a library in Google Apps Script to make updating easier in case others would like to use the same script for other purposes
4) Merged changes from Volt's cleaned-up master copy to the Sarna official copy		Apparently, dynamically searching for neighbors within 30LY is faster than using a cached list , so I eliminated the Neighbors sheet and modified the code to dynamically search for neighbors.Volt
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2025.01.03Completed the SUCKit Integrated Pathfinding Script (SIPS)After two months of work, the Pathfinding Script finally works. Users can set start and destination points and the script witll always find a path to connect the two systems. By default, the script will find the path with the fewest number of jumps, which also has the shortest total distance. Details on the SIPS can be found in the process write-up sheet.Volt
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2025.01.021) Added 3152 faction ownership from ilKhan's Eyes Only
2) Added faction ownership of Dark Nebula
3) Added Star League faction, changed the pre-2780 remote TH systems to SL
4) Added Star League Defense Force faction, changed the post-2780 TH systems to SLDF, and post-2780 remote TH systems to A
5) updated start and end year of some factions
6) removed faction ownership of deep periphery systems after 3095 for those that have not been mentioned since ISP3		Busy weekend since acquiring a copy of ilKhan's Eyes Only. Did a recheck of various entries, updated old ones and cleaned up some formulas.
Because the Terran Hegemony ceased to exist after the Amaris Coup, I changed TH systems to SL and SLDF. All periphery systems after the dissolution of the SL were changed to Abandoned, and the TH worlds were changed to SLDF in 2783, and Independent in 2786 because by this time the Exodus had occurred.		Volt
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2025.01.011) Added faction tags to systems with duplicate names to better identify them
2) Changed lookup for Pathfinding and distance calculation in Systems sheet from entering ID to entering system name to make the search more user-friendly		I made the system selection based on the system name, made unique by adding faction tags to systems with duplicate names, instead of the system ID. Adding data validation by range also adds autocomplete so it makes typing up names easierVolt
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2024.12.011) Added Neighbors sheet in preparation for the SUCKit-Integrated Pathfinding Script (SIPS)
2) Added a Dark Nebula entry in systems to represent Erit Cluster and Camelot Command, both locations found within the nebula so that it can be a starting point or a destination later on once the SIPS is up and running.		Working with ChatGPT (because I have not done any actual coding in over 25 years) to develop a pathfinding tool using Google Apps Script given the data in the SUCKit. But since GAS has a 6-min runtime limit I had to predetermine system neighbors to eliminate a lot of the iterative work. Was able to come up with a working script that would determine and record the system neighbors within 30LY. Initial version took around 70+ seconds to process everything, then I asked ChatGPT to optimize the code and it was able to trim the runtime down to about 10-11 seconds. I'm sure more optimizations can be done to speed up processing but I'll explore that when I have more free time.Volt
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2024.11.011) Added dissolution year of Republic of the Sphere
2) updated Sarna links to several systems
3) renamed Sonnia to Rahway and updated link
4) renamed Alpha Eridani to Achernar and updated link		Volt
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2023.06.021) final cleanup of various sheets, interconnecting their content via formulas
2) changed version numbering to year.month.edit number
3) added pre-SUCKit changelog entries at the bottom of this page		Volt
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2023.06.011) cleaned up the About page
2) cleaned up conditional formatting related to formula-bearing cells (gray) in various sheets and the distance Column to show Green for systems that are within 30LY and then Yellow going to Red for those beyond 30LY for easy reference
3) fixed some spelling errors
4) turned system size into a formula based on data on Nebulae & Cluster Sizes
5) removed 2271 to 2571, and 3030		Because of a potential data extraction issue carried over from the 2011.08.01 version of the faction ownership database, it is possible that some systems have been put under a certain affiliation but are actually not officially recognized. This is because faction ownership of systems that were obscured by pdf map borders from the various Handbook PDFs were included. As a result, the years from 2271 to 2571, and 3030 were removed until an updated faction ownership using corrected extraction procedures are retrieved.Volt
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2023.03.02Updated the Sarna Links of Alekseyevka and Badlands ClusterVolt
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2023.03.011) Corrected ownership of Rocky from HB:HK map and TtS: Rocky
2) Update the Sarna link of New Galicia		Volt
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2022.08.031) Updated faction ownership of Crellacor in 3145
2) Updated Gustrell as Faction Capital beginning 3095
3) Updated faction ownership of Tamar Pact, Alyina Mercantile League, Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition and Vesper Marches systems in 3151
4) Changed Year Titles in Systems-Description and Systems sheets for better compatibility with the GUMS		GUMS = Gruese's Ultimate Mapmaking Script, Sarna.net's preferred map generatorVolt
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2022.08.021) Renamed Rodigo entry to the star's name, Alsace
2) Updated faction ownership of Joppa before 3067		Volt
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2022.08.011) Removed 14 systems erroneously included in the 3152 list that shouldn't be present because they are not visible in the maps
2) Swapped height and width of Caliban Nebula		Volt
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2022.07.021) Coordinates for Cielo extracted and incorporated
2) Added Dalrymple (formerly abandoned Tintavel)		Volt
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2022.07.011) Qualip marked abandoned in 2864
2) Renamed Kandersteg to Matahari
3) Updated Faction Ownership of Matahari, Gibraltar, Sadurni and Gienah before 2750
4) Extended Scorpion Empire systems Ownership to 3152
5) Updated Faction Ownership of Bolan in 2367
6) Added new system Cielo (Coordinates to follow)
7) Added The Institute (formerly abandoned New Galicia)		Volt
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2022.03.011) Changed Faction Ownership of Arcturus, Blue Diamond, Kelenfold, Borghese and Kerensky's Vision in 3151
2) Changed Sarna link of Almotacen		Volt
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2022.01.011) Added faction ownership of systems appearing in Tamar Rising maps
2) updated coordinates of Matteo based on PDF map raw data
3) removed non-canon label of Matteo faction ownership on all periods before 3151
4) added placeholder Sarna link for Matteo
5) added new factions from Tamar Rising		thanks to Hammer from the MegaMek team for sharing their data from mining the content of Tamar Rising. Their file effectively cut the work of the SUCS in half by identifying the faction ownership of the systems that appeared on the maps, allowing us to devote our time to identifying ownership changes, abandoned systems, reappeared and new systems, and coordinates extraction.Volt
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2021.10.01Updated the Sarna link of Dieudonnéspecial thanks to Nic JansmaVolt
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2021.09.02Renamed the descriptions of 3135, 3145 and 3151 in the Systems-Description sheetGot lazy and just wrote "Dark Age" beforeVolt
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2021.09.01Fixed incorrect description in the Systems-Description sheetThanks, Revanche! Volt
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2021.08.02Fixed incorrect column labels in the Systems-Description sheetThanks, gruese! Volt
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2021.08.011) Updated the Sarna links to some systems
2) renamed Alnasi to Gamma Sagittarius for consistency with Sarna.net		1) thanks, Nic!
2) BTW, Alnasi should have been Alnasl, typo error		Volt
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2021.07.06Changed name merge formula in Coordinates Conversion sheet from vlookup to index-match-matchVolt
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2021.07.051) Changed Farstar's faction ownership from 3085 onwards from CSR to RA
2) Changed colors of some factions where applicable to make them look more distinct on a map
3) Corrected ownership of Promised Land in 2271		missed this one, CSR and OA merged to form RA in 3083 so there shouldn't be a CSR anymore by 3085Volt
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2021.07.041) Simplified the formula for counting the number of systems per faction per year in the Factions sheet
2) Changed the distance calculation formula from vlookup to index-match-match to make the lookup more flexible, then used the named ranges
3) Added conditional formatting to reflect faction color of a system at a certain year (WIP)		I don't know what I was thinking, using sumproduct and len on a formula I could have simply used countif. Well, at least that's that. I hope the shorter formula makes the sheet tally faster
index-match is supposed to be more efficient than vlookup, and it doesn't break when the number of columns shift because their lookup is based on the column header instead of a static column number		Volt
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2021.07.03Tagged Kanata as a Major Capital in 2783 and 2786wow, i wonder what else I've missed over the years... would be nice to have fact checkersVolt
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2021.07.021) Corrected Faction ownership of Apinzel in 2786
2) Changed the date that Erin was renamed to Von Strang's World from 2830+ to 2786+		Volt
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2021.07.011) Added Finmark Free Republic Faction
2) Changed faction color of OA to match Inner Sphere at War color		Volt
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2021.06.04Changed lookup formulas from vlookup to index-match to speed up processingno change in the data, just improving the formulasVolt
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2021.06.031) Changed formula for scaling maps to the base map, affecting the coordinates of 123 systems
2) added a Process Write-up sheet to explain the process done to build the SUCK		Tweaked the formula for higher accuracyVolt
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2021.06.021) created formula to display name of system in Coordinates Conversion sheet as referenced from Systems tab
2) revised formulas in Coordinates Conversion sheet for error handling and missing reference coordinates
3) renamed column headers in Coordinates Conversion sheet
4) added placeholder data for Matteo
5) changed (A) faction tag for Apocryphal to (X) to mean Non-Canon
6) added alternate names for Baggville and Stonarboi based on the information from Gideon on an upcoming sourcebook
7) Corrected Faction ownership of Gibraltar, Lepaterique, and Atzenbrugg in 3151
8) Corrected Faction ownership of Alhena in 3135
9) Corrected Scorpion Empire Faction ID
10) Removed Scorpion Empire Faction Affiliation in 3151 because we have no source		minor edit to link data between sheets to improve QoL for future users
changed names of the reference ID X and Y to indicate that the references should be based on Origin, North, South, East and West-most systems for scaling purposes
added Matteo in preparation for the new sourcebook, but marked faction ownership as non-canon for now, with coordinates based on the data given by Gideon in the Sarna.net discord server and the Sarna article on Non-Canon as the link
technically speaking, all apocryphal fall under non-canon, but not all non-canon are apocryphal (apocryphal being a subset of non-canon) so I changed the reference accordingly		Volt
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2021.06.011) Updated the formulas for distance calculations in the Systems sheet
2) incorporated the coordinates conversion sheets into the SUCK
3) Updated the Nebulae sheet to include the raw data and calculations		added a text lookup to display the name(s) of the system with the selected ID number, and added error handling if the ID is left blank
instead of having to externally reference a different file, I decided to incorporate it as an extra sheet here so that everything is in one place, making it easier to pass the torch later on		Volt
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2021.04.01Added alternate name for HeiligendreuzVolt
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2021.01.01Marked Tukayyid as Undiscovered (unsettled) in 2367 from Battle of Tukayyid campaign bookVolt
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2020.10.02Added 7 new systems from Operational Turning Points: Hanseatic Crusadebig shout out to Dmon!Volt
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2020.10.01Renamed Götterdämmerung and updated Sarna linkIncluded the tréma in the spelling in accordance with consensus from Sarna editorsVolt
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2020.09.011) Added system Eliat from House Arano book
2) Updated Systems and Factions sheet formulas to accommodate inserted systems
3) Updated Faction Ownership of Kaumberg, Braunschweig and Valencia from Touring The Stars		thanks to Hobbes over at Sarna.net for discovering this system that we overlookedVolt
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2020.08.011) Corrected Faction tag of Apocryphal System to be consistent with that of Hidden Systems
2) Corrected Sum Ranges on Factions Sheet
3) Added Total Inhabited on Factions Sheet
4) Added background colors to Major House, Abandoned, Disputed and Undiscovered systems in Faction Sheet		while composing an email to Bad_Syntax, I noticed some of the numbers on the Factions tab didn't add up. A short investigation uncovered an error in tagging that prevented one system from showing up on the Factions table. After correcting it, I realized I wanted to quickly see how how many inhabited systems existed each year.Volt
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2020.05.011) Edited alternate name entry of Rigil Kentarus
2) Edited alternate name entry of Commonwealth Mining Outpost 26		Data updated from the new Touring the Stars booksVolt
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2020.04.02Updated Sarna link of GalatiaVolt
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2020.04.01Updated Sarna link of several systemsFrabby changed the addresses by taking away the roman numerals, thereby referencing the system in the article instead of the planetVolt
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2020.03.02Updated Sarna link of Van DiemenVolt
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2020.03.01Updated Sarna links of several systemsFrabby changed the addresses by taking away the roman numerals, thereby referencing the system in the article instead of the planetVolt
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2020.02.02Fixed Sarna links of Trent and JuniperVolt
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2020.02.01Updated the Sarna link of SantanderVolt
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2020.01.04Fixed Aquila Rift spellingVolt
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2020.01.03Algol, Alrescha, Buchlau, Kansu, and New Hessen were all incorrectly tagged as Major Capitals in 3151, fixedVolt
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2020.01.02Renamed Monument to Man to SVSC A0V.4900In keeping with using the SUCK standard notation of referencing an entry with the system nameVolt
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2020.01.01Updated Sarna link of Cavanaugh, Trent and HomerThanks, Nic Jansma (of Sarna.net fame)Volt
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2019.12.04Made Brinton TC from 2864 to 3079Turns out, Brinton wasn't lost during the 2nd Succession War, it just got quarantined but was still recognized as a TC system but was taken out of ComStar maps, so I reflected that affiliationVolt
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2019.12.03Changed Regis Roost to a hidden system in 3025info from Touring the Stars: Regis RoostVolt
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2019.12.02Corrected HEX values of faction colorsthanks to gruese for pointing out that some hex values were wrong, turns out over half the hex values did not match the cell colors they were supposed to representVolt
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2019.12.011) removed duplicate Aurigan Directorate faction in Factions tab
2) fixed some typos		some years-long typos and a single instance of illegal faction cloning have been found by lastjedi, thanks again!Volt
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2019.10.01Changed distance formula to reference ID instead of system namedistances for systems with duplicate names are resolved incorrectly so I had to reference the ID instead of the name. Should have seen that problem sooner in the 9.Sep.19 changeVolt
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2019.09.021) Added the Sarna link for the last 7 systems
2) reduced precision of height and width of clusters from 4 to 3 decimal places		1) I made the article pages but they're just stubs, so the only thing in them as of this writing are the coordinates
2) do we really need to be that accurate? What's the difference between 0.0001 and 0.00001LY at this scale anyway, right?		Volt
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2019.09.011) changed Status Column to Primary ID
2) added apocryphal system as (A)		1) I decided to add a Primary ID key to the entries to make each one unique, so I don't have to have the differentiator part of the system's name
2) Saggina is a mapped system but remain apocryphal because it's not within the visible borders of the map. In order to see it, you have to remove the border layer on the map page		Volt
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2019.08.021) changed faction color in Factions sheet from RGB to HEX
2) deleted the #class column
3) renamed columns in Systems and Factions sheet		thought i'd reduce the number of columns by putting the data in one cellVolt
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2019.08.011) changed entry of Aurigan Coalition systems from AC to AuC (AC is already used, although no actual systems fall under that faction)
2) changed 20.Jun.19 4) entry from AC to AuC		Volt
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2019.07.011) adjusted syntax for renames and multiple planets
2) dropped old spelling of names		systems with multiple planets have commas separating the multiple planets (ex: Niops)
systems with renames or alternate names have slash separating the names (ex: Carver)
removed the old spelling of system names from alternate names since they won't be used moving forward		Volt
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2019.06.021) Renamed Chandan entry to Chaadan to reflect errata report response from official forums
2) added Adrian Gideon to the credits section for this contribution
3) deep periphery systems discovered by IE made Undiscovered before IE's formation in 2974
4) changed affiliation of some systems from IE to I unless specifically stated in sourcebooks to be under IE's control/administration		1) so now the original name was Chaadan, then became Chadan and then Chandan as a nod to the numerous errata and naming inconsistencies from HBS (quite amusing, really)
2) for the first time EVER since the SUCK was created, we finally have one year with 100% faction affiliation defined (2765)		Volt
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2019.06.011) Updated coordinates of systems introduced in House Arano book
2) Added seven new systems from House Arano book
3) Created Aurigan Directorate and Aurigan Coalition Factions
4) changed affiliation of 22 AuC systems in 3025		1) Alamagordo does not appear in the maps
2) Chandan is incorrectly spelled Chaadan and Chadan in two maps
3) Regis Roost is missing in the 3022 map
4) El Giza erroneously appears in the 3022 map, this should be Alamagordo so I used those coordinates		Volt
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2019.04.01Updated affiliation of McEvans' Sacrifice based on OTP: Fronc ReachesVolt
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2019.03.021) fixed a typo
2) removed the apocryphal names of the alleged hidden WoB systems		Volt
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2019.03.011) changed status of Saggina to Apocryphal
2) indicated source maps for various years in Systems-Description sheet		Volt
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2019.02.071) fixed some hyperlink issues
2) marked several hidden systems as (H)
3) changed the 2 apocryphal/non-canon WoB hidden worlds from CS(H) and WB(H) to A		Since we never really got official confirmation of two WoB hidden systems, I've restored the "Abandoned" tag to those systems instead of marking them as hiddenVolt
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2019.02.06more typo correctionsVolt
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2019.02.05typo error correctionthanks for the find, gruese!Volt
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2019.02.04Added a sheet with a short description of each column for the Systems SheetVolt
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2019.02.03Marked several hidden systems as (H)Volt
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2019.02.02Marked Sol [Terra] as a Faction Capitaldunno how i missed that out on most of its entriesVolt
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2019.02.011) changed the designation of the Hidden ComStar/Word of Blake systems from CS/WB to CS(H)/WB(H) to indicate their hidden nature
2) applied formula used in counting disputed systems in the Factions Tab to work with the Hidden Systems		Map makers can make use of the (H) tag to exclude those systems in border generation algorithms so they do not exert any influence in the surrounding areasVolt
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2019.01.03changed format of alternate names for Tabit, Hope and Carver as requestedVolt
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2019.01.02added information from Touring the Stars: Sherwoodapparently Sherwood was an Independent colony from 2415Volt
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2019.01.01added information from some Touring the Stars books that have been generously lent by contributorsThe copies sent to me have since been deleted after the required information has been extracted. Much thanks to you guys, rest assured I am not in the habit of sharing paid property.Volt
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2018.12.02changed cluster sizes from total height and total width to x- and y-axis dimensions (radius, if the cluster is a circle)basically i just divided the total height and total width by 2 in order to get the major axis and minor axis values of the ellipse shape that will represent the clusterVolt
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2018.12.011) changed cluster scale to cluster size
2) defined factions laying claim to disputed systems		encountered a problem in using a variable scale to define the size of a cluster so I applied the same method in determining the size of a nebula. Having a fixed size instead of an adjustable size based on a scale makes the cluster cover the same space regardless of he size of system icons if one were to generate maps.
to give added flavor to disputed systems, I indicated what factions contested the territory, allowing map makers to make more dynamic borders taking disputed systems into account		Volt
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2018.11.01Added column for system scale and rotationas requested by gruese, i've added an x,y,r scale property to each system for map makers to be able to apply variable system sizes particularly on clusters. The properties are X-scale, Y-scale and rotation. The base scale is the default length and width of an ordinary planetary system entry. The rotation will be used if the cluster will exhibit a non-circular (ie elliptical) appearanceVolt
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2018.09.02corrected the wrong link*facepalm* when you want to get things done right...Volt
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2018.09.01added last missing sarna linkthanks to BrokenMnemonic for generating the article for Union_of Samoyedic ColoniesVolt
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2018.08.051) added links to four newly created article pages on Sarna
2) added year 3151 from Shattered Sphere with affiliations
3) removed assumed affiliations beyond 3095 for Deep Periphery systems and others
4) extended affiliation of Transfer Facility 4 up to 3095, changed from ComStar to Independent
5) added Aurigan Directorate as a Faction
6) removed Khwarazm Empire as a Faction
7) added founding year of Interstellar Expeditions
8) added dissolution year for Regulan Fiefs
9) added dissolution year for Rim Collection
10) added Timbuktu Collective as a Faction
11) various other changes in affiliation of other systems based on actual sources		only one missing link to go
just got my copy of Shattered Sphere, there's a two-page 3151 map so anyone who doesn't want any spoilers better not look at the new column		Volt
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2018.08.041) added newly created article page links (only 5 left)kudos to Revanche for creating the over thirty missing articles for the new systems from Second Succession War and Interstellar Expeditions 3Volt