New and beginning explorers you don't have to travel far
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Yup, you're right. Although usually it's around 800 LY for me. There are thousands and thousands of directions out of the inhabited sphere. So the chance of you taking one no one else has taken before is quite large. Just make sure you're not heading towards the usual pretty nebula's and you'll bump into undiscovered systems in no time.
There are some nice spots out near the rim systems if you know where to look, if anyones interested i could suggest but its slowly dissapearing how much remains ive grabbed a number.
Heh, I've found unexplored systems within human space itself. On a route between popular systems no less. There it was, main star discovered by someone else, but the shiny gas giant only a thousand or so light seconds away? Claimed by no one.
Also found an Earth-Like near a nebula. Same story, someone had scanned the star on their hasty way to their next destination but left a beautiful Earth-Like planet completely untouched. Incidentally my first ever Earth-Like ever.
Also found an Earth-Like near a nebula. Same story, someone had scanned the star on their hasty way to their next destination but left a beautiful Earth-Like planet completely untouched. Incidentally my first ever Earth-Like ever.
I was quite pleasantly surprised to find a couple of undiscovered systems near to the Coal Sack on my first jaunt out into deep space. My main mission was to visit HIP 63835 (one hell of a crazy cool system, go there now if you haven't already!), but I decided to push out to a bit past the Coal Sack and then circle back around and return to my 'adopted-home' system (70 Virginis) via the Federation-Empire border. There were discovered systems with undiscovered bodies, but I claimed discovery for one or two entire systems along the way. Managed to discover about 40 or 50 objects from a short 1000LY round trip.
So yes, there is definitely uncharted territory within reach of the beginner explorer. I didn't happen upon any Earth-likes, but there may be a couple lurking around still.
So yes, there is definitely uncharted territory within reach of the beginner explorer. I didn't happen upon any Earth-likes, but there may be a couple lurking around still.
Yeah, my first 'significant' foray outside colonised space was only about 150 LY out from the nearest base, and I started hitting unexplored systems after only 100LY.
Space is big. If you go in any direction then it won't take too long to hit a path nobody has travelled. Your route is essentially a big, 3D pachinko machine and the chances of someone following the same route as you get low pretty fast (unless you're choosing a common destination)
Space is big. If you go in any direction then it won't take too long to hit a path nobody has travelled. Your route is essentially a big, 3D pachinko machine and the chances of someone following the same route as you get low pretty fast (unless you're choosing a common destination)
It takes a little while for the size of "400 billion" to sink in.
I just found a completely untagged system 370 ly from Sol. I didn't try and measure the distance to the closest inhabited system - it couldn't have been more than 150 ly.
The Galactic plane seems to have been explored more (i.e. systems "flat" with inhabited space - go up or down...) and shiny things (O class, Neutron stars, Nebulae) as well.
The Galactic plane seems to have been explored more (i.e. systems "flat" with inhabited space - go up or down...) and shiny things (O class, Neutron stars, Nebulae) as well.