Worst cluster of planets you have seen?

[haphazard1]

It is probably just randomness and how the human mind (often poorly) perceives it, but it sure does seem like bad planets appear in clusters in MoO. In a personal game I recently started, I had a nice jungle 80 next to my homeworld of Meklon. Working northward up the western edge of the map (I started in the southwest corner) I found a poor planet, a minimal size 10, another poor planet, and then an ultra-poor.

Yuck! What terrible land! I have a pair of no-planet systems plus Orion to my east, so there is nowhere else to expand. I will need range 6 at least to cross the empty space to the center of the map, and with all the yellow stars there I am sure at least one AI will be solidly established there before I can tech that far. There is a rich inferno planet in the far northwest, which will be useful someday if I do not get beaten to it by an AI from the northern part of the galaxy.

So, my question: What is the worst cluster of planets you have seen in MoO? It does not have to be around your start, although those may be the ones we remember most , but just a group of terrible planets? Bonus points if they are arranged so you have to colonize each one to advance to the next -- no picking only the good (or at least less bad) ones!

[Ianus]

I just got one!  I rolled a start as the Klackons, small, impossible, 5 opponents.  I was looking to have a fun game, but when I used Alt-GALAXY to look around I found this:
   
I'm not interested in playing it out at the moment, but it would be an interesting challenge!  Also the red non-poor star to the east is Dead.

[haphazard1]

That is a really crummy start. Four poor planets all around you, plus Orion, plus a deead world...ouch. The bugs suffer a bit less than other rraces would, since poor planets tend to be large in size and their population is more productive. But still pretty terrible.