[Puke]

does not seem too bad. i mean, that you can recon an unexplored planet without having a system map is silly. but consider that you are doing covert recon on a sector, and the planet on it. so you have a spy on the planet or something. so you can see anything else nearby, like fleets in orbit or moons and such. and if you dont get to know WHERE it is, well, which is worse, having recon of a mysterious planet that you have intel on but dont know where it is, or having a spy report the location of a planet without also turning over a system map?