Biggest problem with empty systems is when you have to cross them. It's sad and lonely feeling to cross through Bretonia and see nobody else. But if they are up in a corner of the map and you don't go through them, they have no affect on anybody. Those are like guard systems, hurts nobody to have an empty system if you never see it.
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