You'll be playing Beta 3 in a volume of 868,744 cubic light years,
containing 2,406 star systems, including 4,181 stars and 24,918
planets.
As we expand the volume of the Milky Way you are able to explore, you
can start to get a sense of the true variety, scale and spectacle of
what is out there, just waiting to be discovered and exploited.
In Beta 3 you can find our first B class star, and there are also
three class five gas giants - super hot planets with clouds of
metallic vapour in their atmospheres. There are also two rare
terrestrial planets with a silicate vapour atmosphere - they are
incredibly hot!
Beta 3's 2,406 star systems mean it is huge, about five times bigger
than Beta 2. Yet it represents only a little over half a millionth of
one per cent of the full game to be launched later this year!