like. okay. my definition for habitable is contextual but in this case it's "has many lifeforms that can clearly be seen, and is not sterile"

for hospitable, however, my definition in this case (based off of the vaulters starting techs) is every planet that you can colonize at the start as an empire like the vaulters, plus mediterranean and tundra planets

what im saying is that basically, if the vaulters (or any other major faction, but for this im using the vaulters because they're the EL major faction featured in the game) could just settle on a hospitable planet within their own home system, why wouldn't they just colonize the hospitable planet? even more weird is when there's multiple hospitable planets, which just makes the entire thing really weird

basically what im saying is that auriga's system shouldn't be allowed to have atoll, forest, terran, ocean, boreal, jungle, monsoon, tundra, or mediterranean planets within it, otherwise that creates a plot hole where the vaulters could have just never left their home system and colonized the nearby planet that is quite literally as habitable as it gets, but for some reason they didn't and decided to go into deep space to inevitably run out of energy, which makes no sense if there's already a hospitable planet

The answer is pure technical. There are no checks on lore consistency onto where Auriga spawns. It tends to spawn at the center constellation, and that is where lots of good 4-5 planet systems are generated, and where Minor Factions are housed. Naturally, those too have higher chance to contain habitable planets.

I've seen 3 unique planets spawn on the same system before, the game really doesn't care.

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As Sublustris said, its all technical. I mean it can even spawn like this:

Also, as soon as Vaulters left orbit of Auriga (watch their intro), they were blown off course by the explosion of the dust crystal that left them stranded in space for a long long time in hibernation. So them not settling on a habitable planet in the system is kind of justified.

oh

..maybe i should have watched their intro. i never play as the vaulters (or any other faction to be honest) since the unfallen are my favourite faction and i always play as them, so me missing something could be expected, to say the least

also yeah i've seen rogue planet auriga before too