[Growltigga]

Fair comment Gryph, fair comment indeed....

Personally, I find that too many systems means too much real estate and therefore too much micromanagement to sort out your empire. I personally prefer medium size galaxies.

The two links for system names are excellent. I have changed all the system names on my SEIV to real star names and I think it gives a great feel to the game.

The only problem is that it can clutter up the map as your planets will tend to have long names such as "Australis Coriolis I", "Australis Coriolis II"