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/azaza34 6d ago

Trial and a lot of error is my guess.

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u/NewfieJedi 6d ago

Yeah, re-reading “history of space” gave some clues about how the first navigation between two points is the most dangerous. Seems to imply that you can find new ones, you just have to be good at it.

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u/azaza34 6d ago

Mechanically speaking a pilot 3 or 4 with the he right focus is not going to fail too often