Broken system, broken ship
By all accounts, this system is not quite right. There are seven gravity wells but only three stellar bodies with sufficient mass to generate one that we can detect. Even though our sensors are not top of their line, they should be more than enough to spot a planet. Our initial course crosses one of the smallest wells, and I elected not to reroute, despite the warning of my second in command. We are, after all, a scientific expedition. We won't get too close however, as even I have a bad feeling about this.
Scientific Explanation
I'm being pressured by my colleagues to formalise this (that's on me, I asked them for help). These "ghost wells" as I'll call the planet-sized gravity wells with no mass, are caused by a local alteration of the gravitational constant which, passed a certain energy threshold, will create a breaking of symmetry. This breaking will give birth to a fifth kind of fundamental force from the split of the gravitational force, able to produce quantum mechanic phenomenons at the macroscopic scale. At least that's what they told me.
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