I agree whole heartedly. The whole Tolkien style world building thing just holds no interest for me at all. What I need from a sci fi game is political and military factions, aliens and their philosophy and possible points of conflict for PCs.
IMHO each system needs no more than a line or two saying something about its main population centre, its government and maybe something interesting like "Its a binary star system with one red and one blue sun" or "This systems only population centre is a gas mining facility in high orbit around the gas giant planet Xymox"
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