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Resident Alien 2 said: Not sure if I like not seeing anything in a system when I first enter it. I arrive in a solar system in my hi tech starship and I can't see any planets?!

That's actually kind of realistic. We're spoiled by not-to-scale media depictions of solar systems. In the real universe, you have to be really close to something (on an astronomical scale), for it to show as disk rather than just another point of light.

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm said: From Pluto's surface, the Sun appears as only a very bright star.