455LY from SOL and completel undiscovered system

[sbdags]

25 celestial bodies too. [money]

Shakes head, mumbles to self.

How can this be? Lol.

 

[goemon]

i made a project in 1.4. - tying to every point with "1000" in its coordinates, like +1000/-1000/+1000 ... you wouldn#t believe how many of those systems you catch, when you ae not following the usual routes.

i'm also postive, that you could find a system IN the bubble ... maybe not inhabeted, but who knows...

 

[iain666]

How can this be?

4/3 * pi * r^3.

You can fit a lot of systems into nearly 400 million cubic light years. If the average distance between systems in the Sol region is about 10ly then each sits, roughly, in a 5ly radius sphere and there'll be about 750,000 within 455ly of Sol.

There'll be undiscovered systems in that range for a long time yet.

Or to put it another way...

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"

 

[bkrownd]

Nothing unusual. There were still unscanned/untagged planets IN the Bubble as recently as February. I'm sure there still are. 500Ly outside of the Bubble most CMDRs are skipping M stars and brown dwarfs to cherry-pick the best systems. Stars that don't fit conveniently into the automated routing algorithm are routinely skipped because CMDRs are plotting several jumps at a time trying to get somewhere.

 

[CMDR Murf]

Just tonight I found an unscanned Water World within 1k. It was in scanning range of my arrival point too.

 

[who?]

It doesn't really shock me. A few months back I tried that out of curiosity, to find the nearest undiscovered body/system I could; and found undiscovered bodies within 3 jumps from a station (about 100Ly) and undiscovered systems from 350Ly. Nice when it happens though!