(Quote) Blackstar: when you finally get into Crossfire, you will discover that the Sol system is approx. 1400k across, which is why it needs warp gates; Sovetskaya is about 1000k across, and uses warp buoy tradelanes. Sol has several "death zones", as discussed above, and both these systems are so large as to make a complete, detailed, system scan nearly impossible. Another approach to enlarging systems is to remove trade lanes altogether, forcing ships to use free flight & waypoints for naviga…