The point is, we don’t know how many of these ‘planets’ are actual things with a surface you can land on and explore the breadth of. At a stretch, it might even be a catch-all for anything you can land on/dock with, including space stations or orbital platforms. The term could also include moons and large asteroids. We don’t know how these planets are distributed, and we also don’t know what constitutes a ‘planet’ in this context – the term could include gas giants, which you definitely won’t be landing on but could have interesting things orbiting them. Like other people’s childrenġ,000 planets divided across 100 systems is roughly ten planets per star (we know this from math). Not all stars are the same – some of them are a bit dim, and some of them are downright intolerable. With a mere century of star systems, we’re already down to the tiniest, imperceptible fraction of a point-zero-zero-zero of No Man’s Sky’s real estate before we’ve even started, even if you just take the relatively small portion of NMS that humans are ever likely to see based on its pointless and ludicrous boast of ‘18 quintillion planets’.
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