RE: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 2:09 PM -0300 8/14/01, Brian A Quirt wrote:
>
>      I had thought that 6 hours between jumps was only done in
>emergencies, and that most ships jumped only once per day whenever
>possible. Still, in that case all that is needed is to multiply your
>travel times by four....
>      I haven't looked at the rules lately, so I'm not sure which is
>correct.

~6hrs is the minimum recharge time. I'm looking at a fast transit for 
a military  vessel. Its the difference between a Battle Cruiser 
making a transit across the ocean and a standard freighter.

I suspect that a military vessel deploying on a combat operation will 
be hoofing it. A Leisurely transit by a bulk freighter or the 
slightly more upbeat speed of a liner will be of course slower. 
Though given the preference for jumps while passengers are asleep, 
one would expect a liner to only make 2 jumps per 24 hour cycle if 
they can cut that 6 hr recharge time down. If they have really fancy 
hardware (Cunard lines in the 22nd century?) they may be able to have 
two sets of capacitors for two sequential jumps over 2-3hrs.
>
>      I check you on 1 parsec = 3.3 lightyears. Further....

Constants are easy...

>  > Some of these planets are right at or under a parsec. So a
>>  quick jump from one to the other is easy. A long trip from
>>  one side of the NAC Mu Arae (9:-3:-2) to GJ 1289 (-2:7:-3)
>>  is about 11.7 parsecs or 396 Light years. If we can do that
>>  in 4 LY hops we are talking about 99 hops and probably about
>>  594 hours given no drive failures or other problems. That
>>  comes out to 25 days worth of travel.
>
>      The distance from Mu Arae to GJ 1289 is:
>      SQRT( 11^2 + 10^2 + 1^2 ) parsecs = 14.9 parsecs
>      14.9 parsecs = 49.2 lightyears. That's quite a bit off.
>      Even 11.7 parsecs = 38.6 lightyears.
>
>      It looks like you're off by a factor of 10 in distance. Thus, in
>4LY hops, it looks like 13 by my calculations and 10 by yours. At 1
>jump every day, that comes out ot 13 or 10 days respectively. For
>military ships (5LY), it looks like 10 or 8 jumps, taking 10 (2.5
>rushed) or 8 (2 rushed) days.

strange, I don't know what happened, but still, I guess its good. 
Transit time from one edge of the NAC to the other isn't nearly as 
bad.

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