Was thinking about it on my last long distance trip. When we turn our discovery data in, we getting certain amount of credits based on the scanned systems value and some points towards our exploration rank. If I understand it correctly value of each scanned body is standard across the galaxy (based on many factors), so if you scan one system next door and another one just like that 20K LY away they both should cost the same amount of money. I wander if distance traveled, in this example 20K LY, has any effect on the exploration points or they tied to the monetary value and therefore the same for both systems as well? I don't do that much of the exploration, so I might be missing something here.