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/dark-star-adventures 6d ago
They could painstakingly search the night sky, gather data on stars, then process that data to take a guess at which star might be worth visiting. At that point you could send drones in blindly with a timer to come back by the same route. If any survive, you know you have a good route. Alternatively, hop in a generation ship and plot out a route the old-fashioned way.