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Originally Posted by Joseph Paul
Yeah, but....There is now an awful lot of boring places to have to search in pursuit of someone with a reason to flee. If FTL in a flavor that leaves little to no traces is in use then illegal actions in the 'bright spots' are followed by a random hop to anywhere. The question of life support for that ship as a limitation on activity can be met with taking tech that will get them CHON+ and whatever else is necessary to stay for a while or to continue hopping around. With sufficient power and tech life can be maintained anywhere which has implications for the setting that acknowledges that all those grans of sand even exist.
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Of course, this can be seen as a feature rather than a bug: it makes piracy and random adventuring much easier.