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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
c. is unanswerable until you deicde how far apart your worlds are and how laong you wan tte average trip to be. This can be reduced to just how long you want the trips to last. The "feel" of the movies would make it jsut acoupel of days to cross the setting in a fast ship.
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The correct answer is that FTL speed should be based on how long your desired story needs it to take to get to Nearby Interesting Place (NIP).
If you want travel times measured in weeks, and NIP means habitable planets on average 10 light years apart, a good FTL speed might be about 200-300x light speed. If you are crossing significant chunks of galactic geography in hours or days, it would be hundreds of thousands to millions of times light speed.