[TML] average stellar intervals

[Anthony Jackson]

Garry Ward wrote:
> All versions of Traveller have conviently used the notion that stars are at 
> least 1 parsec apart.
> 
> Given how jump drives work, this makes sense.
> 
> However, in the wonderful world of reality, is there an actual average 
> distance between stars that has ever been calculated?

Depends on what you mean by average distance. On average, in our part of 
the milky way, there is one stellar system per 12 cubic parsecs (there 
are 100 stars within 6.62 parsecs, or a volume of 1,200 cubic parsecs). 
I don't remember exactly how to compute the likely average distance to 
the nearest star, but it should be in the range of 1.2 to 1.3 parsecs.