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Tom spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
>     So I'll make some assumptions:
> 
> 1 - The slowest FTL travel possible is just barely above the speed of
light.

300,000 km/sec. 
 
> 2 - Combat occurs at distances on the order of thousand of miles
maximum.

If we assume 1000km per hex, we could figure 'combat ranges' as 
50,000 km or so. 
 
> 3 - The shortest time that an FTL jump can take is one second.

Why not? :)
 
>     That gives us the shortest jump distance of a light second or
> 186,000 miles.

300,000km, or 300 hexes. Useful in some senses, but not really as a 
mid-battle tactic. 

Tom. 
 
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