Cherie Heiberg

Cherie Heiberg is Archivist & Associate Writer at Cloud Imperium Games.

She keeps everything organized and findable and sort the irrelevant from the viable. She's also a mean worldbuilder

She writes and manage the Galactapedia. She designed the controlled vocabulary and search methodology. She collaborates with others to add an in-fiction timeline, along with sub-categories/series to expand the functionality of the already robust tag system.

She collaborate with an outside contractor to create functional conlangs for Star Citizen and writes the alien culture portions of the language documentation. Developers who need to utilize the languages contact her for translation and for quality control.

She is the main point of contact on the Narrative team for questions about planetary science. Her aim is to help Star Citizen and Squadron 42 adhere as closely as they can to real science while still being fun.

She creates templates and standardizes workflow processes for Confluence to enable intuitive collaboration between developers. She is a Jira and Confluence administrator.

She has named hairstyles and plants that are currently used in the game.

She wrote a paper on Building A Strategy For Digital Game Preservation Based On The Practices Of Communities Of Players.