Suggestion for someone returning to GURPS

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Originally Posted by Donny Brook

-The star system generation takes far too many pages in service of a ludicrous level of verisimilitude of boring, usually empty systems. But worse, it neglects to equip you with how to tailor-make plausible-but-interesting places.

That's not completely accurate. The rules in Space provide explicitly for the option of starting out by assuming that a system includes an Earthlike planet and then building the rest of the system around it.