Strategic Movement (was Re: LaGrange...)

John L., I like your strategic system as a means of getting around in
the 
abstract- It'll probably show up in a micro-campaign in the future.  For
my 
more detailed games, I'll be using the jump at EOS system - probably
around 
40 AU for a Sol-type star (about the orbit of Pluto).  BTW, my calcs
were 
wrong (again!  Sorry, I'm a total amateur at this physics/mathematics
bit). 
 To travel 20 AU, rest-to-rest, in a thrust 2 ship takes 25 days and 
change, NOT 253.  Oops.  But that's good, so pirates can sit outsystem
and 
not just watch commerce whizz by at 3000 MU/turn+.  Military ships & 
couriers will probably do the accel-jump-decel bit, but speed is far
more 
important than risk to them, at least in wartime.  So, by standard 
freighter, it's about 2-3 months between systems.  This gives some long 
travel times, but I'm thinking of adding some kind of FTL commo, but
I'll 
probably stick with 'fence-straddler' craft.  Take a small ship with a
big 
commo set, add jump engines and no manuver engines.  It collects data on

one side of the jump point, jumps, and then dumps its data on the other 
side, while receiving that sides info.	They just blip back and forth, 
squirting info every 6 or so hours.  Most likely unmanned.  Simple job,
and 
humans couldn't stand up to that kind of torture.
	There would probably be, in the more populous/traveled systems,
facilities 
and communities grown up around main jump points.  It would be nice,
when 
your bulk freighter is facing a 2-month insystem trip, to be able to get

fresh supplies and a bit of liberty.  Just some thoughts,
Noah