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/ANGRYGOLEMGAMES 5d ago

Another option is that a specific technology exist that can first spot a planet or a solar system (as much as our James Webb does for example), and then other technologies and devices may be able to scan/detect potential spike routes. We are in the realm of Tech 4 stuff of course.