[Taqwus]

Don't forget the storms and other features, as well. There are 169 sectors per system, so that's a lot of room for people to create stuff.

I'd be surprised if he used fixed-length records that recorded everything in an entire system. Variable-length using lists would seem more efficient; for instance, each system could have linked lists of planets, storms, et al.

Pathing could be a concern. If every warp point is a vertex, and edges represent both intra-system travel and inter-system travel, and there are up to 10 warp points per system, 655,360 vertices (65k systems) might be a bit much. That's especially true if there are any O(|V|^{2}) or O(|V|^{3}) algorithms in use.


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