The reason for that was that communication between star systems required wormholes to be continuously open. And as dense as information transmission had gotten, it was still an extremely limited throughput from star system to star system, such that only 0.001% of all information in the interweb of one star system could flow to another.
Trying to access information from other star systems was time-consuming and tedious, especially since most of that throughput was used for more important civilizational systems.
Thus, each star system had its own bubble of information, making her feel safer and freer in the frontier.
"Two rooms opposite each other, please," Ria told the innkeeper, before paying him in alliance credits, acquiring two room passes. Runark was hoping she would go for one room, but alas, she was too level-headed for that.
