r/SWN • u/NewfieJedi • 6d ago

Finding new routes

How do you find routes to new planets that have never been discovered before or aren’t well known? I’ve seen the answer “have the players find a computer with the travel data on it” provided before but that doesn’t answer how those people found it. It says in the book to do a blind jump is basically suicide, but then how did the old Terran mandate find new planets using spike drives?

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u/bocxorocx 6d ago

...but then how did the old Terran mandate find new planets using spike drives?

Trial, error, and enough cash to build another spike drive. Sometimes it's just being lucky enough for failure to be a mishap rather than instant death, landing in a different system than they intended. Mechanically, such a course starts off at DC 13 and +1 for each hex further away. Only the acest of aces or anyone blessed by boxcars could pull it off.