N/A Posted April 7, 2009 Posted April 7, 2009 I was looking at the few characters in Freedom City, both canon and here, that are space-worthy, and a little math (rounded frequently) and vastly oversimplified astronomy yielded some interesting results. 1 light year = distance light can travel in 1 year = 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers c = Speed of Light Light Travels at 186,000 miles per second 186,000 miles per second = 11,000,000 miles per minute = 667,000,000 miles per hour Pegasus Spaceplane = Space Travel 5 = 25c Star Knight Armor = Space Travel 10 = 1,000c DarkStar = Space Travel 20 = 2,500,000c Solar System = 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers across = 1 light year across (Awful convenient, that) Mars = 55,000,000 kilometers from Earth (at closest orbit) c = 12 hours Earth-to-Mars 25c = 29 minutes Earth-to-Mars 1,000c = 44 seconds Earth-to-Mars 2,500,000c = 0.02 seconds Earth-to-Mars c = 1 year to cross Solar System 25c = 2 weeks to cross Solar System 1,000c = 9 hours to cross Solar System 2,500,000c = 13 seconds to cross Solar System Proxima Centauri = Nearest Star to Earth = 4 light years away c = 4 years to reach Proxima Centauri 25c = 2 months to reach Proxima Centauri 1,000c = 1.5 days to reach Proxima Centauri 2,500,000c = 51 seconds to reach Proxima Centauri Milky Way Galaxy = 100,000 light years circumference c = 100,000 years to cross galaxy 25c = 4,000 years to cross galaxy 1,000c = 100 years to cross galaxy 2,500,000c = 2 weeks to cross galaxy I'm assuming that the Lor Republic, the Stellar Khanate, and the Grue Unity all have comparable space-faring technology, and that Dædalus' homemmade spaceplane is on par with it. That implies that the ships of most of the spacefaring races in The World of Freedom hover around 5-10 ranks of Space Travel. So they're looking at a few minutes to a few seconds to hop from one planet to the next one over, and the better part of a day to a week to get from the inner planets of a star system to the fringe worlds. Hopping to the nearest star system takes them anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months. This would mean that, if you throw up a distress signal in this galaxy, you better hope your rescuers are in the same star system as you, and probably not more than a planet or two away, or else you're just screwed. This also has far-reaching implications for how the governments and economies of these galactic bodies actually function. Which is to say, very, very slowly.
Dr Archeville Posted April 7, 2009 Posted April 7, 2009 There could also be Jump/Warp Gates, effectively high-ranked Teleport with the Portal extra (and Progression to make the Portal big enough for spaceships to go through).
N/A Posted April 7, 2009 Author Posted April 7, 2009 That is certainly possible. For the moment, however, I was limiting myself to what I was able to find mention of in canon setting materials.
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