User blog comment:SupcommMonroee/Suppy Super Post Alpha - The Total Reconstruction/@comment-3155949-20131219025220/@comment-3155949-20131220054059

Alright. They can take their sweet, sweet time with the yearlong journeys with primitive FTL/super-sublight.

Where will the Stone Rings be located?

No, let's not make any of them that big. That completely defeats the purpose of reducing scale. A really big empire would be 20 to 30 full systems. I'm going to give the EIT 11, with a handful of border systems.