[Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts

[schmeelke]

Originally Posted by scc

Currently I thinking that the maximum speed (Assuming a ships has the shields to handle it) is equal to 5^X where X is the FTL rating, and you can't use multiple drives to boost the number. Note that this is a speed multiplier.
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Now my minimum thought for the campaign is that FTL-1 and FTL-2 drives are available to spaceships, and portal stations mount FTL-3 gear, enabling a FTL-2 equipped to save a good deal of travel time, if of, course it pays the transit fee. Not all planets/systems have a protal but.

Originally Posted by ericthered

5^X is really steep!

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Speed is in pc/day, as in the general hyperspace description in SS?

That's awfully fast. Comparing to ST:TNG:

                   Distance               FTL-1        FTL-2         FTL-3
-----------------  ---------------------  -----------  ------------  -------------
Earth to Moon      400,000 kilometers     224 µs       44.8 µs       8.96 µs
Across Sol System  12 million kilometers  6.72 ms      1.344 ms      268.8 µs
To nearby star     5 light-years          7.358 hours  1.472 hours   17.66 minutes
Across one sector  20 light-years         1.226 days   5.887 hours   1.177 hours
Across Federation  10,000 light-years     1.679 years  4.032 months  3.504 weeks
To nearby galaxy   2,000,000 light-years  335.8 years  67.16 years   13.43 years