Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-4242472-20140831130500/@comment-4242472-20140901003514

Wormulon wrote: Within 5000 light years of Sol, there is an average of 600 million star systems, and we aren't exactly in the most densest regions of the galaxy.

That being said, given the faster-than-light capabilities of most SporeWiki species, and the fact many are now in sub-galactic (or more) power blocks, its the safe to assume, not only given their massive sensor capabilities (think of hyperspatial detection even), and using drones that most stars have some kind of astronomical data.

Yeah that's why I think we need to define what our current unknown regions are. Are most of them simply areas that have not been visited by known beings or are most of them regions with no astronomical data whatsoever?

We've located and named/designated perhaps a billion stellar objects in the last 200-300 years (when astronomers began creating very exhaustive lists), imagine how many stars have been catalogued by a faction that's been studying the heavens this exhaustively for 800 or even 10,000 years, perhaps with the number of active astronomers being an order of magnitude or two (or more!) above the number of astronomers currently on Earth.

So it stands to reason that Its possible that most established spacefaring nations have a very solid image of most if not all the stars in their home galaxy at least due to the exponential increase in the rate of stars catalogued per year.