Well that's rather strange, after solving my little self inflicted problem above I have continued with my trip, working my way around the permit locked regions in this area. I took a bit of a risk and jumped my Fleet Carrier 500ly directly through the M41 Sector permit locked region, and then realised I didn't have any fuel left in the tank, well 47 tons to be exact and I wasn't sure if the FC was in an area I could reach, but a bit of roundabout flying got me to it, and this is where the strange bit comes in.
For the last few thousand light years, well more than that, every single star system has been at least discovered, many system mapped and only a very few where some planets were missed altogether but that was just a bonus. Now I am not surprised about that, I am only 2,600ly from Sol and in a very heavily travelled area of the galaxy, these permit locked regions around Barnard's Loop were and probably still are a magnet for explorers. As I said I had 47 tons of fuel in the tank, did a small jump of a couple of under 200ly to bring it a bit close to me, which left 1 ton of fuel, nice, but strangely I jumped the carrier into a completely undiscovered system, no tags on anything, stars, planets, nothing. Also the second last system I passed through was also completely undiscovered, this appears to be a little bubble of undiscovered systems right next to the M41 Sector permit locked regions, so I shall spend a bit more time here checking out the nearby systems to see of there are any more.