Re: Operational scale

Laserlight wrote:

>   Starting from rest, 1 gee acceleration for 24 hours yields a
distance
> traveled of 0.25 AU, pretty close--assuming I used the right formula
(d=1/2
> a t^2 ), setting 1gee at 10m/sec^2; and assuming my arithmetic is
right.
>
> (I haven't worked out when you get to relativistic speeds).
>

I figured it out on a computer a long time ago. (back when they were
only 8
bit...)
At 1 gee acceleration, it takes something like 340 earth days to reach
light
speed.	I have forgotten how far you would travel by the time you
reached light
speed.

>
> So what's a reasonable scale for operational level (gravitic drives)? 
Is
> 1/4 AU per movement point about right?
>

Seems ok to me...Have you thought about the weapons yet?  Missles?  FTL
energy
beams?

>
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