How to eliminate the "Shortest Path" functionalisty from them game engine?

I want to build a mod that basically adds a huge amount of Star Systems to the game (like at least 250 or so). I think that, sooner or later, this will have me running into trouble with the ‘Shortest Path’ functionality.

As a player, I never use the ‘calculate shortest path’ anyway, so I might as well completely turn it off. Is there a way to do this?

Please note that I not just want to remove the interface option, but the entire functionality itself, because afaik the game already automates calculating those paths before being asked to.

adoxa wrote:
The simple solution is just to create empty path files. You’ll still have the option, which will still work intra-system, but not inter-system.

Thanks, I was under the assumption that the game engine would auto-write the path files.