Use other ships? The closest modded faction is min ~10 LY from home star IIRC
Literally looked around the base 10- 30ly and found nothing new
I dunno, haven't you found purple-pinkish colour stars?
I found one but it's at 47ly, and they are seriously strong
Edit: I know that i can just sweep the whole thing until the military power goes down but that stupid avatar is insane!!!