News ED Fiction Diary #3

[Slawkenbergius]

Well I was at least right about my maths being weak.

 

[Susimetsa]

Looks like 260,000 stars, as it happens.

Quite a few stars for them to include in the galaxy map and decide which one goes to which faction... I wonder if they will map them all accurately, or if the accuracy will begin to taper off at some distance from Sol...

 

[Slawkenbergius]

Okay, I redid the maths correctly this time. Better late than never. If the radius of the bubble is 250LY, then 260,000 is indeed about right. If 250LY is the diameter (which seems more likely to me) then 32,725 is closer to the correct figure.

EDIT: Oh, and my workings, because there's still a chance I'm wrong... I did volume of a sphere, times 0.004, which is the current best guess at the number of stars per cubic light-year. Figure taken from here.