Considering alternate world generation

[spank]

I've been looking at some of the newer world generation options, and more modern cosmological surveys. They result in lots more type M and K stars as well as various other stellar object such as rogue planets, white and brown dwarves, nebula, neutron stars and so on.

How would stellar object like these integrate into the Imperium? What sort of population would you find on a rogue planet? Mining? Fueling? What about Nebuli? Trade Waypoints? Research station?

 

[Spinward Flow]

How would stellar object like these integrate into the Imperium?

Calibration Point

Since such non-stellar system locations are not centered on "stars" (in the typical sense), they would be left OFF most interstellar (hex) maps of (sub)sectors. However, they could be of interest to a variety of parties ... for academic, commercial, paramilitary and/or military reasons. The omission from "most maps" can then become a point of leverage, because Knowledge Is Power™.

See: Battle of Two Suns ... for an example of this in Traveller canon.

 

[Commander Truestar]

Calibration Point

Since such non-stellar system locations are not centered on "stars" (in the typical sense), they would be left OFF most interstellar (hex) maps of (sub)sectors. However, they could be of interest to a variety of parties ... for academic, commercial, paramilitary and/or military reasons. The omission from "most maps" can then become a point of leverage, because Knowledge Is Power™.

See: Battle of Two Suns ... for an example of this in Traveller canon.

other items from published Traveller history are:
Bryn Avgrunn Station - a J-2 deep-space station originally "intended" as a refueling point for ships trading between the Orcrist and Enos
systems, but later used to marshal forces for the 5FW
A secret base build by the Darrian, who found an enormous, dead, slow comet (a ball of ice 200 km in diameter) jump-2 rimward of Zamine
This was used to hide the Confederation's Higher tech forces, including their Star trigger fleets