On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 02:11:14AM -0500, Caleuche wrote:
> One option would be to only place habitable worlds around a tiny
> fraction of stars, and calibrate that number such that there are
> about 11000 systems in the sphere surrounding Capital with a radius
> of 129.5 parsecs. That has the side effect of making the frontier
> much larger - the whole surface area of the sphere rather than the
> arc length of the 2d circle.

The more serious side effect is that it means the average distance to
the nearest habitable star system is about 6 parsecs instead of just a
bit more than 1.  Most ships will need to make 3 or 4 jumps.

- Tim