On 7/20/2015 2:57 AM, David Jaques-Watson wrote:

Which could be 1% of lightspeed for a 1G drive, up to 6% of lightspeed
for a 6G drive. (Craig Berry, are these numbers reasonable in comparison
to your solution?)

…and we’re done.

END.

;-)  ;-)

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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
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"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"

The kinetic energy in a 100 ton mass traveling at even a "mere" 1% of c is... considerable.

Long and short of it:  space is big, really really big (down the road to the chemist, etc etc).  Any form of travel energetic enough to get the PCs from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of time can probably be converted, somehow, into a big enough BOOM to absolutely ruin a lot of people's days.  So it's really really hard to keep WMDs out of the hands of adventurers, because they "need" one just to get around the setting.

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