Guys, I noticed something peculiar around the Orion Nebula... it might not seem like much on it's own... but I believe the symbol on the barnacles provides the hint (Orion surrounded by Bernard's Loop?).
Anyways, my reason for this, please consult the following list -
https://www.edsm.net/systems/pairs
In particular, the Orionis sectors on the list... ex:
http://puu.sh/pwVUp/d758c153bf.png
Now, there's a giant permit wall blocking this area in 2.1, but on the CNE we found a few paths in. In fact, the main one is via the Witch Head Nebula, where more barnacles were recently discovered.
Anyways, it seems that a bunch of the Orionis sectors, which would have been well explored and discovered by now have moved to new coordinates (all except V1522 which seems to have vanished), and new, named systems have taken their place. I have a strong feeling they are from 2.1 because named systems in a popular location
should not be undiscovered at this point... Yet the named systems seemed relatively pristine in terms of exploration... it's even stranger because the unnamed systems are very thoroughly tagged. I have 120 discovered bodies from this trip, all in the named systems. I couldn't find any in the procedural systems or the 1k Ly along the way...
The kicker, is some of the coordinates on EDSM were from May shortly before the 2.1 patch, so the moved systems is a recent thing. FDev is up to something in Orion folks, maybe I figure I'd share this with the people who could potentially gain from it the most.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this though. I did only start playing a month ago... but I've yet to have so many inconsistencies with EDSM, plus the systems in particular are named and not procedural... seems like something to me...
Either that or I found a chain of named systems that very few CMDRs have even noticed? But it seems unlikely, the conflicts on EDSM indicate something more, I feel.
Bonus - confirmation of 1st Witch Head Barnacles:
http://imgur.com/GEF2SOg &
http://imgur.com/2Nnj38h
And 2nd Witch Head Barnacles:
http://imgur.com/3NB9WTL &
http://imgur.com/sFtxdPa
Shoulda taken some with coords, but whatever, I got there off the coords in this thread. By now you guys have probably confirmed them pretty well anyhow, I'd imagine.