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Oh and this hasn't been discused but I figure I might as well bring it up, any objetions to moving the limit to around 32 AU? That way something at the L3 point of pluto would swing in and out of the Limit at 2012, and I like that position for Hades station. I only figured out how much it was of by when I looked up plutos current position, before this I was using the semi-major axsis of 39.4 AU as a base distane mesurment.
We can always claim that the limit is not a hard limit but instead stretches for several AU and that some engines are able to go superliminal deeper inside the limit than others. (And that the best so far managed has been at 32 AU, the next best was at 37 or so AU.
Then again we could keep it at 40 AU and I could just move Hades station. I am really torn about this, I don't want to move the limit inward and I don't want to move the station. Any sugestions? Prefferences?
How about making the limit a geometric variable based on mass of the ship in realation to the mass of the nearest star.
This would give the larger and slower ships a bonus due to their size.
Mind you if you want a ship with a "jump" limit sun side of the belt it would have to have the mass equivalent of Jupiter and Saturn, or more. I'd say a ship with a mass equivalent of Luna (the moon, not the catgirl) should be able to break lume just outside of the orbit of Neptune.