[quote=@Arawak]
So there's no noticeable patterns in node generation? (Like correlations of node amount to the mass of a star or such)
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Not that human science can currently explain, which isn't unthinkable given its a technology they didn't even come up with personally.

[quote=@Iluvatar]
[@Taeryn] Sure, I can be Athena. Is it all right if I tweak the nations, and perhaps the population (probably keeping the population of the whole Athena system below 5bn at maximum)? I thought I might put together a world based around city-states that are extremely autonomous, ancient philosophies being the driving force behind the disparate government systems and a love of a simpler lifestyle combined with a few technological conveniences as the primary way of life. That would require many more, though smaller, nations.
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Tweak all you like - I'm not demanding you be Athena, you're free to be more than a singular star system, I was just pointing to it as an example.