RE: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

1g acceleration = MD 8? 1G seems awful slow.

Perhaps 1mu = 10,000km would be better

This is about 15 minutes at 1.25 Gs = Thrust 1.

Using this, at MD 1, an AU could be crossed in 
31 hours constant acceleration or 62 hours from
stop to stop (with 0 turn around time).

At MD 2, it could be done on about 22 hours and
16 hours at MD 4 (again double for stop to stop).

So unless you have very fast ships, it appears that
the trade-off between jumping and normal space 
transit is at sizes of about 1au for stop to stop
MD 4 fleets.

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Cantrill [mailto:jwcantrill@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:01
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

The distance scale is easy, what about the time scale?

For example, take as a base...

1 MU = 1000 km	and
1 Turn = 15 minutes

Maybe not THE standard, but does allow a convenient 1g = Thrust 8 ;)