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"Any civilization advanced enough to leave its own plant will be advanced enough to track accurately those leaving"

-- Civilized Tracking Corollary (2017)

...until people start dying and babies start getting born in space.

Well, there may be some speed-of-light issues in getting the latest data. But this problem seems pretty solvable if you link to the right government databases, etc.

900B records leaked and broadcasted from the UniverseFax credit agency; now forming a shell around Earth that's 6 light hours wide, and expands at the rate of 600 000 km/s...

Just use MongoDB and shard it for every galaxy. Problem solved.

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