Thread: Jump Distance
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Old 05-23-2021, 07:35 AM   #8
madhopper50
 
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Default Re: Jump Distance

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Originally Posted by sjard View Post
It really depends on where you are. If using the Third Imperium setting, especially the Spinward Marches sector, there is a fairly large Main that lets a J1 ship travel (one parsec at a time) to... well... Here's what the Traveller wiki has to say about it.



So in a setting like that, aside from it taking years to visit every system on that main, there are more than enough worlds to visit for a very long campaign.

A ship with a J2 drive would let you bypass more places, and visit almost every other world in the sector (there are a small number that would require J3 to get to). It would also let you get to worlds on opposite sides of the sector considerably faster than a J1 drive could, even if it's accessible by the J1 Main (J2 could let you skip across areas where the J1 would have to travel for many weeks to get to the same point, effectively taking a J2 shortcut)
Thanks! Just what I was looking for.
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