What I would like to see is CCP open up a pure form of exploration where systems have not been discovered yet and placed on the Map.

The exploration would be similar to how the Analyzer Interface works.

Each time you click on a location it would either Green Go or Red Stop. Green Go would mean that a large enough gravitational source had been located for a Titan Class Surveyor Ship to warp to without the need for a warp or jump gate...I forget which it is again?

Once the Titan Surveyor Ship had arrived it would begin to build a Warp Gate back to location where it jumped from so that other ships could have access to the new system as well.

There would be two type of Warp Gate Contracts.

1.POWGC - Privately Owned Warp Gate Contracts - Contract is issued to an empire by Concord to explore a certain area of space and establish a foothold in that space. Such space would effectively be classified as being 0.0 to -.4 by Concord and would be open to dispute once the system had a Concord Station constructed.

2.FOWGC - Faction Owned Warp Gate Contracts - Contracts issued to a Corporation of no less than 25 members to explore a certain area of space and establish a foothold in that space. Such space would effectively be classified as 0.0 to 10.0 by the NPC Faction issuing the contract. Such areas would not be contestable unless events like Faction War took place.

Who knows what will be found out beyond the Great Barrier.

They are exaggerating about the 10,000 imho.

2-3,000 should be about right. Caldari is indeed unbelievably crowded. That's why industrialists tend to avoid it. Not enough resources to go around properly. Minmatar is pretty much there as well.

edit: Also, the Khanid and Derelik regions were added as new extra space in 2006 I believe it was, so it does have precedent.