Re: [GZG] How fast is FTL in GZGverse?

[Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom B wrote:

But I'm curious about FTL travel speed and distance. It changes a lot of things if you can hop from Earth to the Frontier in one jump of 15
minutes or if it takes you 20 jumps each a week long. This makes a big difference to government structure and policy, to media, to military
tactics and choices and undoubtedly to other things as well.

Have you ever thought (notionally, with all the usual caveats) as to how you envisioned jump?
  

I refer you to p44 of FB1, which contains the following two statements which set a current upper limit for human ships in the GZGverse:

"The fastest cycle possible is around one jump per six hours [...] On average, naval vessels on most missions will make no more than one jump per day."

"The longest verified controlled jump to date was [...] a realspace displacement of 7.328 light-years"

So the upper limit, requiring a superb ship and crew, anti-Jump-shock drugs, and a lot of luck, is about 29 ly/day. More usual would be about 6 ly/day (1 jump of roughly Sol-Barnard's Star distance IIRC.

Phil

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