(09-03-2017, 01:36 PM)Imperial Frost Federation Wrote: Qwert what's the speed limit for FTL travel? Especially for warp travel since the area is much smaller than I anticipated I'm the trying to scale back my own FTL capabilities which are currently capped at 100~150 light years per hour.
I'd like to suggest the following (slightly updated for simplicity). We have two main groups of FTL travel technology: warp (contracting space in front of the vehicle to cover a distance faster) or wormhole (creating short-cuts between fixed points in space).
Warp drive tech:
Max speed: 1 ly/h (8,800c) sustainable for a few hours.
Practical sustainable travelling speeds up to about ½ ly/h (4,400c).
Go anywhere you like.
Wormhole tech:
Max speed: 10 x (warp max) => 10 ly/h (88,000c).
The longer the "jumping" distance the lower the max speed.
Only possible between pre-determined points in space.
Travelling into uncharted territory is risky.
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