Litterbugs & Pirates

So, my prior exploration excursion only went out about 600 Ly from the edge of what I though was inhabited space (as defined by filtering stars based on Allegiance in the Galaxy Map).
Out there I was still seeing (fairly consistently) USS and WSS. On the odd occasion I would drop into one, it was either a group of pirates (whom I graciously allowed to live as my exploration cobra had no weapons to help explain to them the errors of their ways), or a bunch of litter in the form of prototype tech, toxic waste, military plans, etc...

So my question is - am I going to have to do some trash removal (of both sorts) when I go on lengthy journeys, or was I just not quite "far enough" from occupied space for it to count as real exploration?
 
Can confirm - Approx 1,000ly out from civilized space I ran into a weak signal source and decided to check it out. Found what looked to be the carcass of an Anaconda and two Black Box canisters.
 
Some think that in those signals may be of interesting to the overall plot development... I've kept some lasers to help me "investigate" and clean the pirates out ;)
 
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