Black holes

This subject came up (Actually I brought it up :-)) on the star system
generation group, and I was wondering about everone's opinion on this:

What does everyone assume about stellar phenomenon? There has never been a
place for generating black holes, neutron stars, nebula, dust clouds,
pulsars etc. in the rules.

I have always assumed that there were a lot more stars than are actually drawn
on the map. The other "unmapped" stars would only be of passing interest to
Scientists (1 month research trips and unmanned montioring probes). All of
these "stars" would have two things in common:
a) no fuel to speak of (interstellar hydrogen, occasionaly a comet or two)
b) no solid surfaces to put bases or other strucures on.

Therefore they are not placed on the maps as jumpspace effectively ignores
everything between the entry/exit points (The navigator worries about
them and their possible influence but not anyone else).

I seem to recall some rules (Leviathin/Zhodani module? I'm going to have to
bring my rules into work...) That seemed to make it extraordinarily difficult
to map the area that you are in. I believe that even with today's
technology, we could map the majority of the imperium without leaving earth
(albeit only star locations).
This inconsistancy (as I see it) could be accounted for if there was other
stellar objects that are not of interest.

	-Dan

						Dan Corrin
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