Binary Star Planets Disappear 1 LY out.

[PlutonianEmpire]

I put a star into a really big orbit around a barycenter, and I noticed that the star's planets disappear at the 1 light year boundary of star systems, even though it is a star with its own STC definition.

Here's the STC:

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Star "Pisces Centauri:PSC.C.:Pisces Centau:PSC Cen" {
   SpectralType "F7V"
   AbsMag 4.06
   #AppMag -2.00
   OrbitBarycenter "SSB"

   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period         15903723
      SemiMajorAxis    63241.077084266280268653583182317
      Eccentricity         0.999900
      Inclination          -3.619400
      AscendingNode       60.83333333
      LongOfPericenter   202.42090
      MeanLongitude        22.600
   }
}

And the SSC for one of its planets:

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"Nightia" "PSC Cen" {
   Texture "gc_vulca_02.jpg"
   BumpMap "gc_vulca_02-bump.jpg"
   BumpHeight 2.0
   NightTexture "gc_vulca_02-night.jpg"
   Color [ 0.090 0.090 0.090 ]
   BlendTexture true
   Radius 9463

   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period            26343.597664606474
      SemiMajorAxis     950.0000
      Eccentricity      0.0381
      Inclination       80.0000
      MeanAnomaly       349.8697
      AscendingNode   249.5971
   }

   RotationPeriod      70.0703
   EquatorAscendingNode   104.3709
   Obliquity               22.46

   LunarLambert 1.0
   
   Albedo           0.10
}

Is this a bug, or is it intentional for a star's planets to disappear when the star moves beyond the 1 LY boundary?

[Hungry4info]

It has always been this way.
I don't think it's a bug, more an issue of it not being implemented.

[PlutonianEmpire]

It has always been this way.
I don't think it's a bug, more an issue of it not being implemented.

I known that for a while. I just assumed that since it was an STC star, the SSC companions would stay visible.

The other thing I noticed, while the STC star has it's own 1 LY radius when the orbit specs are removed and a RA/Dec declaration is put in; when it is in the orbit that I specified, it's SSC companions can be seen from Sol, even though the star is two light years out, yet when I approach it, the SSC objects disappear when I reach Sol's 1 LY boundary.

I just wanted to know whether that was on purpose or not. I forgot to mention this (the stuff I talked about in the previous paragraph) in the OP.

[Chuft-Captain]

Yes,
This is a long known "feature": viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10392&p=80887&hilit=light+year#p80887

I assume it's a decision made by Chris at some point for efficiency reasons (ie. to avoid having to calculate orbits for planets that are so far away they're not visible).