> Commentary: The space travel procedure specifies checking for starship
> encounters at least four times during an interstellar trip. In the wilds,
> about a third of these checks will result in a ship.
If you factor in the starport type too, presumably most often X in the wilds,
there won't be *any* encounters there. Instead there will be 52% to encounter
a ship in the wilds in a system with an E port and your figures are correct
for C and D ports.
More interesting perhaps is that an encounter with a vampire will occur in
on average every 4th E-Wild system and every second C/D-Wild system.
In two of three A-Pocket systems, a vampire will be encountered, as in
every second B-Pocket system, 43% of the C/D-Pocket systems, every third
E-Pocket system and every fourth X-Pocket system.
Most of those vampires will be big ugly cruisers and escorts.
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