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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE] I wonder if there is not an entire agency dedicated to unmanned exploration [/QUOTE]You mean a Space Probe Agency? :) Certainly it seems that manned exploration alone would not cover sufficient ground, judging by TOS where exploring ships were implied to be few and shown to be far between. And sometimes our heroes do plunge into adventures by checking out things found by a probe ("Tin Man"). Perhaps such probes are only necessary for exploration "beyond the rim of known", even when there's still lots of uncovered volume inside that rim. Once the Feds perform a cursory manned survey of Sector X, they can probably gather the "missing pieces" by interviewing the locals, studying their star charts and sensor logs. They'll save themselves the effort of detailed charting that way. But to find the said locals, the Feds have to send out the probes and the exploration ships first. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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