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Originally Posted by acrosome
0.1c in what frame of reference?
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It doesn't matter. The answers to these questions don't matter because the effects you are worrying about are literally waved away as a genre convention. That's the part of Space Opera you seem to be missing.
In Star Trek or Star Wars or Babylon 5 or Dark Matter or The Orville or Galaxy Quest or Farscape or Stargate or Dune or Andromeda or Battlestar Galactica or Known Space or Ender Wiggin Saga or... the list goes on and on... these questions simply don't come up because they are ignored as a matter of convention. It can be safely assumed by the viewer that there is a good in-universe explanation, but you don't need to worry about it. You simply can't take a Reactionless drive and crack a planet with it. For [insert technobabble] reasons. It is literally a genre trope of Space Opera.