I found a system with 7 stars!

[HevKenzieHarris]

Another notable find for my records

 

[nemolomen]

Nice find. I think the most I've ever seen is 10. Good hunting...

 

[Agony_Aunt]

If including proto-stars, like you are including, you can get a lot more. Still, cool find.

 

[Ozric]

Nice find by the OP, always good when you beat a record of your own


To everyone else, this really isn't the place to start a random discussion on AI, LLMs, and search engines.

 

[DjVortex]

I think there are systems with a lot more stars, but they often aren't displayed in that leftmost column in the system map, instead being shown as if they were planets orbiting around one of the stars on the left column (often the primary one). Most often those stars-that-are-displayed-as-if-they-were-planets are of the dim sort (usually brown dwarfs or T Tauri), much more rarely of the brighter sort.

I'm not exactly sure how the game decides whether to show a star on the left column or as if it were a planet. I assume that if a star has enough (significantly) smaller stars orbiting it, it shows them as "planets".

So yes, it's quite rare to see 7 stars on the left column. I'm assuming that means that most of them are of a quite significant mass.