Brainstorming Index
Disclaimer: The Brainstorming Sessions are an attempt to cover specific topics which sometimes come across as a little gray. They will be presented with cited facts at the top which players can refer to for concrete information on the topic. Following the facts will be speculations on the topic which may or may not be true due to a lack of information. Until concrete information on a topic is made available please feel free to comment on the speculative ideas, post your own, or even adopt them into your story.
Facts:
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- Earth is in the Solar System in the Orion Spur [1]
- Omni-Prime is in the Perseus Arm: 10,000 LY from Earth (+/- 5,000LY) [1][5]
- Rubi-Ka is in the Outer Arm: 25,000 LY from Earth (+/- 5,000LY) [1][6]
- Starships can travel faster then the speed of light.
- They can enter Hyperspace [2]
- They can enter Subspace [3]
- They can enter a Slipstream [4]
- The speed in which a Starship can travel is sometimes measured in LS/U. [4]
- The Speed of a starship is variable. [4]
Speculations:
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How Fast is Fast?
1) LS/U is a measurement of distance that roughly translates to how many Light Years a vessel can travel in one standard earth day. This would make the trip to Rubi-Ka from Earth take 2.6 years.
2) Alternatively, extremely fast methods of travel could be employed to ease on storytelling. In an old E-mail from Morton I was told that the trip to Rubi-Ka from Omni-Prime would take a shuttle craft three weeks. This would be traveling roughly 700 light years per day for 21 days, or, has a jump ratio of roughly 7 if the standard unit of FTL travel is equal to 100 Light Years per day. The ICC vessels which escorted the Battle Stations were able to achieve a jump ratio of roughly 0.27. Multiply the jump Factor by 100 to achieve the LS/U, meaning a standard shuttle can travel at roughly 700 LS/U. This would make a Trip from Rubi-Ka to Earth take roughly 35 days.
* The larger the vessel the larger the mass and the lower the Jump Factor will be.
Figuring the above out hurt my brain so much I'm going to just stop there for now.
Citing:
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1. Annotated Map of the Milky Way Galaxy
2. Timeline
3. Timeline
4. Timeline
5. Homepage Archives
6. Homepage Archives