RE: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions

That would be in an emergency situation. Using the NORMAL military
transit
of one per day, it would be 3 days (1 jump per day) plus the jumps out
of
and in to the gravity well of the systems (depends on the mass of the
system, but I would suggest 6 each way (1au, 2au, 4au, 8au, 16au & 32au;
Pluto is about 40au out and the Ort Cloud somewhat further). 

A ship could do a jump or two at near the minimum turn around time, but
then
crew quality would begin to decline due to jump stress (even with the
drugs). Remember minimum should not be taken to mean usual. I would
suggest
in a campaign setting to make a threshold check for crew quality each
jump
after the 1st without at least an 18 hour rest. Failure treats all
targets
as 1mu further away per 6mu distant (that is if the target is at 22mu,
treat
it as if it were at 25mu) and treat the ship as if it had one less
damage
control party.

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:43
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Cc: Jerry Cantrill
Subject: RE: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions

[snip]

So with 3.5 parsecs being 11.55 LY, and assuming that a 5 LY hop for 
a military Grade FTL drive, you're looking at 2 jumps at 5 ly apiece 
and then a .5 ly hop for the closer jump. Presumably there is an 
extra jump or two there for refining your position to the system 
hyperlimit so 5 jumps total. 6 hrs each minimum, its a 30 hour trip 
doing the hyper space thing. Some depends on your FTL navigator's 
ability to precisely refine his coordinates and get the insertions 
right. Likely it would take less with an ace navigator.

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