Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed
People lament the light speed barrier, because it seems to preclude vast space empires of Sci-fi. But there are countless bodies at vast distances just within a few light years. If we develop fusion power, just the neighborhood of the Sun and the Centauri systems would constitute tens of thousands of colonization suitable dwarf planet sized bodies or larger. If we build artificial habitats, the population of all of those systems could easily number in the trillions. That&#x27;s a pretty vast setting.