On 2/10/2018 10:56 PM, Caleuche wrote:
> I wonder how those numbers were arrived at, I'm using thrust that
> would accelerate the ship at 1g in the absence of air friction, and I
> am computing air friction with realistic subsonic, transsonic and
> supersonic drag coefficients, setting heat aside, I'm not sure how it
> would be arrived at that the limiting velocity is around mach 1, there
> is plenty of power available to exceed that on standard atmosphere
> worlds - it climbs through the transsonic zone without batting an eye.
> Did the rules arrive from a computation of heat flux or something to
> that effect?

It's a game, they SWAG'd it.

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