What is the highest number of "primary" stars that any of you have encountered in a system? (That would be, the numbers of stars placed VERTICALLY below one another in the system map). We might have a new record logged by CMDR Herzbube on the Sagittarius-Carina Mission (with 7 primary stars), but this is hard to confirm since I have been unable to find any listings of the highest number of primary stars discovered so far.
Septenary star system - first one found?
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This post references a system with 11...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/57034-Most-stars-in-one-system
Although the most I've seen personally is 6..
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I would check the unusual systems thread: I'm pretty sure that a system with 7 barycentric stars has been reported there. I'm also certain I have encountered one with more than six stars myself on my way back from DWE, as I screenshotted it and was considering reporting it there, only my OS became corrupted and needed to be reinstalled, resulting in my hard drive being wiped before I could do so. I cannot remember if it was 7 or 8 stars - I could barely fit them all in on one screenshot zoomed out to the max. As a result of this, I believe 8 is possible. The UC record book lists HIP 63835 as having 9 but I would have to be in-game to check (I have been there and have completely scanned the system and only remember 4: the O star primary and three black holes).
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EDIT: @Nerwan the post you reference describes a system in beta 3 before the game was launched: the galaxy changed after beta 3 so that system is almost certainly going to be different now.
EDIT2: here's one with 7 from the weird systems thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/140925-Post-your-weird-systems!/page5
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EDIT: @Nerwan the post you reference describes a system in beta 3 before the game was launched: the galaxy changed after beta 3 so that system is almost certainly going to be different now.
EDIT2: here's one with 7 from the weird systems thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/140925-Post-your-weird-systems!/page5
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I'm sure I've seen more but I can't seem to find a shot of the system map, I'll have to go through my screenshot folders in more detail - the highest number I've found on a shot is a 6 main system, comprised of Wolf-Rayets and O-types.
@ Edelgard von Rhein: HIP 63835 has four primary stars, and Nerwan's linked system has less than eight too. The other stars in those systems orbit the primary stars. It's easy enough to tell how many primaries a given system has: they all show up on the galaxy map, and will be named as letters. For example, HIP 63835 A, B, C, D. Stars which are in orbit of the primaries are hidden on the galaxy map until you actually visit the system. If you look up Allitnil's posted system, Bloents AY-F d12-0, you'll notice that all eight stars are listed there.
Personally, based on the interview mentioned before, I find it likely that FDev haven't coded in a cap for the maximum number of primary stars into Stellar Forge, but they ran some queries and it turned out that the highest the Forge has produced was eight. Do note that there are two class T dwarfs in the system there, and it's only a mass code D system. It's probably a very lucky configuration, as more massive stars and/or closer orbits would have ended up with some stars swallowing smaller ones.
Personally, based on the interview mentioned before, I find it likely that FDev haven't coded in a cap for the maximum number of primary stars into Stellar Forge, but they ran some queries and it turned out that the highest the Forge has produced was eight. Do note that there are two class T dwarfs in the system there, and it's only a mass code D system. It's probably a very lucky configuration, as more massive stars and/or closer orbits would have ended up with some stars swallowing smaller ones.
Thanks for the help everyone 
Looks like eight primary stars is the current record.
Looks like eight primary stars is the current record.
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On a related question, what's the most anyone has seen of co-orbiting planets? Triples are of course all over the place. I've only seen three quaternary sets on my travels - has anyone seen a set of five or more planets orbiting a common centre of mass?
You don't even have to visit star systems to find out the number of main stars, after all they're all listed on galmap (this way I recall finding a system with 4 wolf-rayet stars back in the early days of exploration, and later on went to actually scan the system) (here's where on galmap, if you're unaware http://i.imgur.com/7Lp02xg.png )
So, if you can bear to mouse-over a million systems, you're likely to find a system with 9 primaries eventually
EDIT: Speaking of the devil, I just bumped into a septenary star system quite by accident, on my way to nowhere. IC 1396 Sector NS-K d8-23 if you want to look it up on galmap (or follow the link to find it on EDSM)
So, if you can bear to mouse-over a million systems, you're likely to find a system with 9 primaries eventually
EDIT: Speaking of the devil, I just bumped into a septenary star system quite by accident, on my way to nowhere. IC 1396 Sector NS-K d8-23 if you want to look it up on galmap (or follow the link to find it on EDSM)
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