...or I am being an idiot and am reading it all wrong?
Anyone Know Why BOVOMIT systems are Permit Locked?
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Weird. All new to me but isn't it odd to have something permit locked that far out?
Apparently it is on EDSM already. Funky.
Bovomit was discovered back in April 3301 during the first attempts to map the Formidine Rift. It was speculated at the time that it was somehow linked to the Rift mystery due to its location (beyond the Rift), but its most likely just one of the other dozen permit regions around the galaxy that's speculated to have been set aside for future content. The Sidgoir region is out that way too, another permit region right on the galactic rim!
Bovomit and Sidgoir sound like Elder Scrolls characters 
Reserved for future "Paid Content"
It was mentioned as long ago as the Kickstarter that some parts of the galaxy would be locked off for future content. Even the developers would not have made firm plans for what to put in there at that time. As the game has evolved, I have read about some parts being unlocked and with 2.1 a large swathe of space around Barnard's Loop and the Cone Nebula were locked away that had previously been accessible and there is mention in Galnet and Drew Wagar's novel Elite: Premonition of things going on in Col 70 Sector.
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I think that the developers now have a clearer idea of what might be going into some of these permit-locked regions, which is one of the reasons why I am now surveying the borders of the most distant ones, to see if there are any signs of spacefaring activity that might reveal, e.g. other Thargoid colonies or remnants of the Guardians. So far I have not found anything, with only one region left to survey, but I hope that my efforts will provide a foundation for future visitors: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/364376-Journal-The-Aronnax-Expedition
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I think that the developers now have a clearer idea of what might be going into some of these permit-locked regions, which is one of the reasons why I am now surveying the borders of the most distant ones, to see if there are any signs of spacefaring activity that might reveal, e.g. other Thargoid colonies or remnants of the Guardians. So far I have not found anything, with only one region left to survey, but I hope that my efforts will provide a foundation for future visitors: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/364376-Journal-The-Aronnax-Expedition
You can find a list of all the permit-locked regions in the permits list thread in the main forum.
None of the reasons for the regional permit-locks have been made known. None of the permits can currently be obtained by any known means.
FD have officially said in the past that "all the permits in the game, are in the game for a reason". It is generally assumed that these locked regions, some of which are much larger than the Bubble of human-occupied space, are the homeworlds of the Thargoids, the Guardians, other Aliens (friendly or hostile), the remnants of the rogue sentient AI, or "lost colonies". They are therefore locked until FD are ready to unveil them, because the content intended for those sites is not yet written into the game (in other words, if you went there now, their planets would be empty).
Keep an eye out for any changes to permit-locked sectors i.e. new sectors suddenly getting locked, or old sector-locks suddenly disappearing. That may be our first and only warning if FD decide to secretly reveal "mysterious things".
None of the reasons for the regional permit-locks have been made known. None of the permits can currently be obtained by any known means.
FD have officially said in the past that "all the permits in the game, are in the game for a reason". It is generally assumed that these locked regions, some of which are much larger than the Bubble of human-occupied space, are the homeworlds of the Thargoids, the Guardians, other Aliens (friendly or hostile), the remnants of the rogue sentient AI, or "lost colonies". They are therefore locked until FD are ready to unveil them, because the content intended for those sites is not yet written into the game (in other words, if you went there now, their planets would be empty).
Keep an eye out for any changes to permit-locked sectors i.e. new sectors suddenly getting locked, or old sector-locks suddenly disappearing. That may be our first and only warning if FD decide to secretly reveal "mysterious things".
I'm 36kly from the bubble and there's a permit locked group of stars nearby, they are listed on the updated permit locked thread so they have been here a while I expect. It's a small nebula, so it wouldn't surprise me if this was aliens, it's aliens I tell ya! The pilots federation have found the moties and doesn't want anyone to let them out so they won't let us visit, spoilsports!
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