The New Frontier...

[elgeeko]

I like this idea *alot*.

I'd suggest these systems be made as large as stably possible in terms of their internal volume.

I would also suggest that no list of them, their names, or an updated map, be given out when they're released, rather let the players do their best to find the new jump-holes and thus the new systems.

If the systems are large and hard to navigate (maybe make some of them so that the in-system nav-map doesn't function. I know it can be done...) and you have to pass through some of the new systems to get to the others then you could (in theory) get 'lost' or stumble onto something totally new.
If you also set it so that some of them show on the larger Sirius map, and some don't, then the mix of 'gaps' in the 'charts' will contribute to the frontier feel and make it that much harder to know where you are.

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