Today's prompt was 'skunk'. I sketched a little family...

Sunday's world23 is time for settlements again. Someplace down the river where the steppe becomes a swamp, there is a little port town of Skunk Water where the caravans unload to trans-ship through, instead of going the long way around. There are bandits who like to take advantage of caravans which would otherwise go around. This way the locals, townies and tribes, get paid to keep the approaches and departures open. Why don't the tribes just take a cut off of the 'go-arounds'? Because that's just too much temptation... and this way keeps the caravan captains beholden to the great chiefs. The little guys blood the smaller outfits and status remains quo....

I was making a thousand tiles instead of each star which actually exists. That and I still have problems with moving the chosen star to the center of the map... 'Oy vey!', as they say. I want to clean up my code and roll up a set of worlds for each star and then render them, clearing and drawing the local star and its worlds.