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That's the beauty of video format, you don't need to mention a lot of things, you just have to show it to the audience. The search area for this particular sequence was shown by panning the "camera" over the debris field near the Frontier fleet while Ozma talks about "this sector." Now if the camera pans over the entire star system and then some, then maybe I'll believe they're really searching across light-years. Besides why deploy VFs without fold boosters if it's really a search area light-years across? Because the writers didn't see the glaring plot hole?
Research can very well do some actuarial magic with the attack data that they have to locate a possible staging area. It's been done since WW2, just that they can't do it fast enough then with those room-size computers.
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