Just found them. Previous system and starter system, with my own name for the latter and all. Found them super quickly when starting the game again after not playing for an hour or two. Did it by scanning for nearby discoveries, yeah. But that DID NOT work before, and no matter how many stars I checked I could not find them. That, to me, confirms that this stuff doesn't work unless the servers are responding. Local data doesn't matter. Suddenly I find them like THAT. I'm happy (just warped to my second system, going to my first once I have another warp cell), but I'm telling you they didn't exist before, or at least not where they should have been.