Re: [FT universe] was [URL] New Star and Campaign Maps

Richard Slattery wrote:
> However, my feeling is that the long of the short of it is.... probes
> and explorations ships could have gone a LONG way... perhaps a
> few hundred ly. The furthest ones will only just be getting their
> results back to the core. However, there isn't going to be anything
> much in the way of colonies out that far.... getting the
infrastructure
> in place means ferrying lots of resources back and forth, which
> takes time, and money. There will also be some pretty big gaps of
> knowledge on a frontier that big... encompassing thousands of
> stars means there hasn't been enough time to explore many of
> them.

	Very true.  Keep in mind that within a sphere 200
	light-years in radius contains approximately
	83,775 stars.  Thats a *lot* of stars.

	( stellar density in our part of the galaxy is
	roughly one star per 400 cubic light years )