Alright, so my computer nerd friend figured out my formatting problem alot faster than I expected. Email came in right as I finished that last journal, lol. Few things to talk about: Borders in space are sorta abstract. Basically they defined em as a mathematical line running along the midpoints between all the neighboring star systems claimed by the three powers at the Treaty of Sait. You can see the central location of Sait is why that ended up the treaty location, yeah? I couldn't for the life of me find a Nebula image to import to this that would be the shape I needed and not have a background, so I made one. Don't laugh at my pathetic nebula I know it looks like shit. Writer, not artist. lol. Anyhow the Meridian Sea Nebula comes into play later on in Praetorian, so its good to note that its a big wall of impassable spacedust. Modern FTL methods cant pass through it, nor can most sensors. Too hot and dense, and there isn't really anything worth looking for anyway. Or is there? Finally there are HUNDREDS of lightly populated systems with basic infrastructure like mines, fuel dredges and refineries, research stations and smatterings of observations satellite arrays. None of those systems really matter for travel, their all clustered around the nearest colony. I will often refer to "clusters" and I'm talking about these inhabited regions of lifeless stars around habitable worlds; stars are actually pretty uniformly distributed in space. Its just far more convenient to have your comet mining operations near a planet you can roll the windows down on.