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Sometimes when I go to navigation menu, to search a celest corp I do not know exactly the name of the object and in this case it is imposible to see.

I think I am not only with this problem.

Do you plan to introduce a search engine to search in the star database ?

I have understanding today how the data is stored and for what reason do not exist a search engine for objects.

stars.dat only contain an id of star and parameters. The names and synonimous are stored in starnames.dat.

In fact, I think, it is dificult to create a search engine because he need to search in a lot of files ( \data and \extras files) and for that the system need to index files like a database, and this files can not be indexed because users can be modify at any time.