A while ago people brought up the idea of having planetary systems, and this got me thinking about an idea. Giving players the ability to add a group of planets to a certain group (a star system) so that it could make managing some planets easier.

The idea would be that you could group up to 9 planets in a system, with the tenth slot on the planet page being room for a personal name or just a default name (so "Hydra system" or "system 1" for example). If one planet in the system were to receive a flag then every planet in the system would also gain the same flag. By clicking on the system name a window would come up that could include the option to flag the systems planets or to apply certain artefacts to the system (will explain later). To start each player would be able to have up to 5 systems, but as they gain more of the planet medals (Frontier Explorer, Deep Explorer..... The Omniscient) then the player would gain more system slots, allowing for a maximum of 10 systems.

As mentioned you'll be able to use certain artefacts that would affect every planet in the specific system. These could be from GP bought things, or new missions to give things.

These missions would be repeatable, and would use different artefacts to gain something new. So for example -
one mission that's 5 rounds per completion, 100 energy and 1 Star Chart Purger per round. Each completion gives a "System Expunger" which when used on a system removes every planet in it from your database.
another one could be a mission that uses exact same requirements, but a "Temporal Flux" rather than a purger, and would give an artefact that when used on a system would flux every planet in it, however this would only work on systems where every planet belongs to you.
As for GP ideas, they could include the above two items, and maybe something that acts as a mass terraformer, which would also affect every planet in the system.

Any Comments/Feedback?

I have to admit, this would be much more logical than scanning individual planets at a time. After all, planets are in solar systems, so if you discover one planet, why would you not also discover the other planets in the solar system as well?
+1 for the idea.

Logic, for the win!