Compensating for something?

[Aldaris (OP)]

So I was using Aurora to gen some systems for use in some worldbuilding. I needed a big system. I eventually got somewhat more than I asked for.

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Belfast-A  G0-IV  Diameter: 3.3m  Mass: 1.60  Luminosity: 6.2

Belfast-A I:  Colony Cost: 64.57,  Temperature: 1464.6,  Gravity: 1.66,  Orbit: 0.51
    Carbon Dioxide 96%, Sulphur Dioxide 4.0%,  Pressure: 55.14
Belfast-A II:  Colony Cost: 64.57,  Temperature: 172.2,  Gravity: 3.4,  Orbit: 0.82
    Total Moons: 2
Belfast-A III:  Temperature: 40.1,  Gravity: 6.6,  Orbit: 1.65
    Belfast-A III - Moon 4:  Colony Cost: 0.29,  Temperature: -6.3,  Gravity: 1.03,  Orbit: 0.004
    Nitrogen 74%, Oxygen (0.28) 26.0%,  Pressure: 1.06
    Belfast-A III - Moon 8:  Colony Cost: 2.00,  Temperature: 40.1,  Gravity: 0.33,  Orbit: 0.04
    Total Moons: 10
Belfast-A IV:  Colony Cost: 2.27,  Temperature: -49.9,  Gravity: 0.31,  Orbit: 2.58
Belfast-A VI:  Colony Cost: 7.46,  Temperature: -164.1,  Gravity: 0.56,  Orbit: 9.1
    Nitrogen 86%, Methane 14.0%,  Pressure: 0.31
    Total Moons: 1
Belfast-A VIII:  Temperature: -203.0,  Gravity: 1.07,  Orbit: 33
    Total Moons: 25
Belfast-A IX:  Temperature: -226.4,  Gravity: 0.06,  Orbit: 43
Belfast-A X:  Temperature: -221.2,  Gravity: 0.79,  Orbit: 60
    Belfast-A X - Moon 11:  Colony Cost: 10.45,  Temperature: -230.0,  Gravity: 0.50,  Orbit: 0.0016
    Nitrogen (F) 78%, Methane (F) 16.5%, Neon 5.5%,  Pressure: 0.01
    Total Moons: 33
Belfast-A XI:  Temperature: -234.4,  Gravity: 2.49,  Orbit: 109
    Belfast-A XI - Moon 4:  Colony Cost: 10.79,  Temperature: -237.5,  Gravity: 0.49,  Orbit: 0.004
    Hydrogen 81%, Helium 12.5%, Neon 6.5%,  Pressure: 0.24
    Total Moons: 12
Belfast-A XIII:  Colony Cost: 11.69,  Temperature: -257.2,  Gravity: 0.39,  Orbit: 392
    Helium 78%, Hydrogen (F) 22.0%,  Pressure: 0.12
    Total Moons: 6
Asteroid Belt: 218
Belfast-A XV:  Temperature: -262.8,  Gravity: 0.019,  Orbit: 1.15k
    Total Moons: 1
Belfast-A XVI:  Temperature: -263.4,  Gravity: 0.12,  Orbit: 1.85k
Asteroid Belt: 294

Jump Points
 1) Unexplored:    Distance: 21.2   Bearing: 3
 2) Unexplored:    Distance: 32   Bearing: 162

The outermost asteroid is at an impossible 35k AU from the star. I ran that through some calculations.
35000 AU is over half a light year.

Isn't that a bit much?

[Vanigo]

I've seen bigger.

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Beta Cassiopeiae-A  F2-III  Diameter: 6.8m  Mass: 6.0  Luminosity: 49

Beta Cassiopeiae-A I:  Colony Cost: 4.21,  Temperature: -92.6,  Gravity: 0.68,  Orbit: 1.89b
    Nitrogen 80%, Oxygen (0.06) 13.2%, Sulphur Dioxide (F) 6.8%,  Pressure: 0.43
Beta Cassiopeiae-A II:  Colony Cost: 6.89,  Temperature: -151.6,  Gravity: 0.87,  Orbit: 3.6b
    Hydrogen 78%, Helium 18.0%, Nitrogen 4.0%,  Pressure: 0.76
Beta Cassiopeiae-A III:  Temperature: -157.4,  Gravity: 0.14,  Orbit: 5.4b
Beta Cassiopeiae-A IV:  Temperature: -189.4,  Gravity: 0.98,  Orbit: 9.8b
    Total Moons: 31
Beta Cassiopeiae-A V:  Temperature: -208.9,  Gravity: 6.0,  Orbit: 16.6b
    Beta Cassiopeiae-A V - Moon 1:  Colony Cost: 8.93,  Temperature: -196.5,  Gravity: 1.03,  Orbit: 152k
    Hydrogen 79%, Helium 15.1%, Nitrogen 5.9%,  Pressure: 1.06
    Beta Cassiopeiae-A V - Moon 6:  Colony Cost: 10.03,  Temperature: -220.7,  Gravity: 0.66,  Orbit: 986k
    Nitrogen (F) 77%, Methane (F) 23.0%,  Pressure: 0.02
    Beta Cassiopeiae-A V - Moon 9:  Colony Cost: 9.49,  Temperature: -208.8,  Gravity: 0.39,  Orbit: 3.3m
    Nitrogen (F) 74%, Methane (F) 26.0%,  Pressure: 0.01
    Total Moons: 11
Beta Cassiopeiae-A VI:  Colony Cost: 10.04,  Temperature: -220.8,  Gravity: 0.32,  Orbit: 35b
    Total Moons: 4
Beta Cassiopeiae-A VII:  Colony Cost: 10.85,  Temperature: -238.7,  Gravity: 1.59,  Orbit: 73b
    Hydrogen 80%, Helium 13.2%, Chlorine (F) 6.8%,  Pressure: 2.35
    Total Moons: 1
Beta Cassiopeiae-A IX:  Temperature: -253.3,  Gravity: 14.8,  Orbit: 176b
    Beta Cassiopeiae-A IX - Moon 4:  Colony Cost: 11.64,  Temperature: -256.0,  Gravity: 0.38,  Orbit: 455k
    Hydrogen (F) 70%, Sulphur Dioxide (F) 24.0%, Hydrogen Sulphide (F) 6.0%,  Pressure: 0.01
    Total Moons: 21
Beta Cassiopeiae-A XII:  Temperature: -263.3,  Gravity: 0.03,  Orbit: 761b
    Total Moons: 1
Asteroid Belt: 112
Beta Cassiopeiae-A XVI:  Temperature: -268.0,  Gravity: 0.09,  Orbit: 5.5t
    Hydrogen (F) 74%, Helium (F) 26.0%,  Pressure: 0.00
    Total Moons: 1
Beta Cassiopeiae-A XVIII:  Temperature: -269.0,  Gravity: 19.4,  Orbit: 23.3t
    Total Moons: 16

Jump Points
 1) Gliese 2:    Distance: 6.7b   Bearing: 230
Beta Cassiopiae-A XVIII is almost two and a half light years from its parent star - more than half the distance from Sol to Alpha Centauri. It orbits the star once every 25 million years. Its outermost moon is 18 million kilometers away and takes 166 days to orbit it.

[Steve Walmsley]

The outermost asteroid is at an impossible 35k AU from the star. I ran that through some calculations.
35000 AU is over half a light year.

Isn't that a bit much?

Bear in mind that is a sub-giant star with a higher mass than Sol. Even for Sol, the Oort cloud supposedly extends to a light year away and we keep find objects further and further away.

Steve

[UnLimiTeD]

Like that tenth planet that someone has to add to the database. 
Or maybe I didn't play a Sol game for a while.^^

[ZimRathbone]

this is just terrifying -  it takes a significant portion of a year for any of my ships to reach anything (its about 15LY out to Brodo Asogi-A XVIII), and since its a bright supergiant (close to being a megagiant) it also has a huge no of WPs (9 so far and I'm still surveying) - real problem is that this campaign has provided very few habitables, and most of them (including the only sub 2.0 cost planet so far) are on the far side of this system from the homeworld, and the WP that leads there (JP8) is of course the one 27b km out, away from all the others

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Brodo Asogi-A  O4-Ia  Diameter: 46m  Mass: 60  Luminosity: 1600000

Brodo Asogi-A I:  Colony Cost: 4.56,  Temperature: 222.8,  Gravity: 1.78,  Orbit: 54b
    Nitrogen 68%, Oxygen (0.26) 20.8%, Carbon Dioxide 11.2%,  Pressure: 1.25
Brodo Asogi-A II:  Temperature: 89.9,  Gravity: 0.28,  Orbit: 92b
Brodo Asogi-A III:  Colony Cost: 36.33,  Temperature: 443.9,  Gravity: 1.89,  Orbit: 156b
    Carbon Dioxide 96%, Nitrogen Dioxide 4.0%,  Pressure: 109.00
    Total Moons: 1
Brodo Asogi-A IV:  Temperature: -26.4,  Gravity: 1.02,  Orbit: 203b
    Total Moons: 6
Brodo Asogi-A V:  Colony Cost: 66.17,  Temperature: 327.1,  Gravity: 1.24,  Orbit: 284b
    Carbon Dioxide 97%, Nitrogen Dioxide 3.0%,  Pressure: 198.51
    Total Moons: 1
Brodo Asogi-A VI:  Temperature: -113.2,  Gravity: 0.87,  Orbit: 483b
    Total Moons: 7
Brodo Asogi-A VII:  Temperature: -106.7,  Gravity: 0.16,  Orbit: 580b
Brodo Asogi-A VIII:  Temperature: -157.7,  Gravity: 1.25,  Orbit: 927b
    Total Moons: 25
Brodo Asogi-A IX:  Temperature: -167.7,  Gravity: 0.70,  Orbit: 1.11t
    Total Moons: 12
Brodo Asogi-A X:  Temperature: -192.3,  Gravity: 4.0,  Orbit: 1.89t
    Total Moons: 20
Brodo Asogi-A XI:  Temperature: -215.9,  Gravity: 8.2,  Orbit: 3.8t
    Total Moons: 8
Brodo Asogi-A XII:  Temperature: -226.4,  Gravity: 28.9,  Orbit: 5.7t
    Total Moons: 16
Asteroid Belt: 34
Brodo Asogi-A XVIII:  Temperature: -264.7,  Gravity: 0.17,  Orbit: 144t

Jump Points
 1) Trulalis (JG):    Distance: 1.81b   Bearing: 88
 2) Aguarl III (JG):    Distance: 4.0b   Bearing: 354
 3) Eibon (JG):    Distance: 5.6b   Bearing: 261
 4) Altikar  (JG):    Distance: 8.6b   Bearing: 254
 5) Anaxes (JG):    Distance: 15.5b   Bearing: 172
 6) Arcan  (JG):    Distance: 17.5b   Bearing: 135
 7) Siluria  (JG):    Distance: 20.7b   Bearing: 71
 8) Amorphiia (JG):    Distance: 27.6b   Bearing: 349
 9) Unexplored:    Distance: 28.4b   Bearing: 171