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Certainly in the sequel movies, it seems to take only a few hours to muster a small vanguard of ships to delay the Empire. |
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So yeah, there's a lot more stars, as the M types outnumber the combined K, G, F, and A types a minimum of three to one.
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08-06-2020, 01:57 AM | #23 |
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Honestly, Garden planets are likely quite common, as photosynthesis is probably inevitable in any system with K through F stars. I would not be surprised if the 10% of K through F stars have one or two (around 2.25% of stars). That would mean that there should be 45 Garden planets within 50 ly of Sol (including the Earth). The only reason we have not seen them yet is because we lack the technology to see low mass planets that orbit their stars at a reasonable distance unless they transit their star (which is unlikely).
Of course, Venus and Mars may have been Garden planets until a billion years ago, so you would probably find more former Garden planets than existing Garden planets, probably 20% of K through F stars have former Garden planets. Potential Garden planets, like Earth a billion years ago, are probably as common as former Garden planets with probably 20% of K through F stars having potential Garden planets. It is these two groups that will form most terraforming candidates (around 180 such planets within 50 ly of Earth, including Venus and Mars). |
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Author: "A class 0.3 hyperdrive? That's almost as fast as the Falcon!" Fan-Base: "No way! It's faster! How dare you?!"
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08-07-2020, 12:46 AM | #26 |
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So I'm changing some numbers around for speeds, dropping travel times a lot, but two more questions travel related:
1) How should I scale FTL engine cost? If a more powerful Hyperdrive can get you to your destination 9 times faster, should it be 9 times more expensive? 2) I'm going to have hypergates scattered around the place that allow for even faster travel then normal, anyone got any ideas just how rare they should be? Out of the roughly 100 known worlds in the local cluster how many should have them? |
08-07-2020, 01:10 AM | #27 |
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Star Wars FTL should probably have a velocity of (1,000,000/[Hyperspace Factor])c through charted hyperspace channels and (1,000/[Hyperspace Factor])c outside of charted hyperspace channels. For example, the Millennium Falcon possesses a Hyperspace Factor of 0.5, making her one of the fastest ships in the galaxy, as she can move at 2 million c through charted channels and 2000 c outside if charted channels.
The importance of the hypergate depends on where it goes. If it accesses a star system outside of any hyperspace channels, it is not that impressive unless there are a lot of unusual artifacts (like a Ringworld). If it accesses a hyperspace stream unconnected to the hyperspace stream of the Old Republic, then it would be one of the most important installations in the galaxy. I would suggest only one though, as they are supposed to be really rare. Last edited by AlexanderHowl; 08-07-2020 at 01:20 AM. |
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So I've reached some other decisions: Every Half-G of Reactionless Acceleration gives 1/8 of one percent of C in top speed, but there's a minimum of 0.5c and both reactionless engines and hyperdrives are in somewhat limited supply, so most merchant men use a dean drive and a low spec hyperdrive, normally a Class 3, and supplement it with a reaction engine if they need more speed. Now here is what the Millennium Falcon would look like in this setting: FIREFLY Code:
TL Spacecraft dST/dHP Hnd/SR HT Move LWt. Load SM Occ dDR Range Cost 10^ Firefly 30 +0/4 13 2G/c 100 17.3 [1] +6 8ASV [2] 10 3x $9.53M Power Points: +2 / -5 Space Performance: sAccel: 2Gs FTL Rating: FTL-3 Air Performance: aAccel: 2Gs (44 mph/s) aSpeed: 350 mph (0.1 mps) Hnd/SR: +0/4 SHIP SYSTEMS Code:
FRONT [1] Armor - Nanocomposite dDR 10 [2] Comm/Sensor Array - Tactical Array level: 7 [3] Weapon Battery - Medium 3 Weapon Mounts [4-6] Cargo Hold 15 Tons / SM+2 Bay Doors [Core] Control Room Comp: C7 / Comm/Sensor: 5 / 2 Stations Code:
CENTER [1] Armor - Nanocomposite dDR 10 [2] Habitat 1 Cabin / Normal Life Support [3] Weapon Battery - Medium 3 Weapon Mounts [4-6!!!] Stardrive - Hyperdrive FTL-3 [Core] Habitat 1 Cabin / Normal Life Support Code:
REAR [1] Armor - Nanocomposite dDR 10 [2] Defensive ECM -2 to Hit [3] Engine Room 1 Control Station / 1 Workspace [4‡] Power Plant - Fusion Reactor 2 Power Points / 200 yr Fuel [3] [5-6!!] Reactionless Engine - Hot 2Gs [1] Load includes: 0.8*tons of Crew & Passengers, 1.5*tons of Steerage Cargo, 15*tons of Cargo Hold [2] Crew Requirement (6 total): 3 Control Stations (1 Pilot, 1 Sensor Operator, 1 Tactical Officer), 1 Technician, 2 Gunners, FUEL USED: [3] Hydrogen/Helium Isotopes 0 HABITATS Code:
Qty. Location Type SM Notes 1 Center [C] Bunkroom +0 4 person 1 Center [2] Bunkroom +0 4 person Code:
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The coverage of the Old Republic/Galactic Republic/Empire is very extensive. I would say 90% of all systems have been charted.
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