Pre-contact Terran sublight colonization ships.

thrash · 12-06-2022, 05:45 AM

For what it's worth the Islands Clusters ships could manage ~0.25c (1 pc / 13 years); warship counters in Imperium and Dark Nebula have the same performance. In the 270 years from Europa to the end of the Interstellar Wars (c. 2317), STL ships could only have ranged a bit more than 20 parsecs from Terra. Thus the 60+ "Terran Settlements Outside the Confederation" on the map inside the cover of AM6: Solomani must all be FTL in some form or other.

That said, the Islands Clusters were able to construct six (I think it was) additional generation ships with their limited resources, so it would not have been impossible for smaller Terran nations or other groups.

12-06-2022, 05:45 AM	#2
thrash Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: traveller	Re: Pre-contact Terran sublight colonization ships. For what it's worth the Islands Clusters ships could manage ~0.25c (1 pc / 13 years); warship counters in Imperium and Dark Nebula have the same performance. In the 270 years from Europa to the end of the Interstellar Wars (c. 2317), STL ships could only have ranged a bit more than 20 parsecs from Terra. Thus the 60+ "Terran Settlements Outside the Confederation" on the map inside the cover of AM6: Solomani must all be FTL in some form or other. That said, the Islands Clusters were able to construct six (I think it was) additional generation ships with their limited resources, so it would not have been impossible for smaller Terran nations or other groups.