Quote:Well, to be honest you're probably not going to see significant dilation effects for in-system travel. The thing about acceleration drives is that they're really best for long, *long* distance travel. Observe:
Hmmm... Maybe when he really pushes it. I don't really recall anyone saying anything about time dialation effects with FTL drive outside The Limit, but it's an idea if we're really gonna push the envelope with the speed.
![[Image: accel-speed.gif]](http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenspace/accel-speed.gif)
(Distances are of course all mean; refer to your navigation tables for current positions and distances.)
You'll notice that the acceleration drive doesn't start to approach the mean travel time for a speed drive until you get past Uranus, really. Travel times can be shortened by upping the acceleration, of course, but you don't see real benefits until you start hitting 1000 Gs or more, which is well above the laugh line for me.
More to the point, Midnight at the halfway point for the Sun-Pluto run (where you turn around and use your acceleration drive for braking) would be the fastest thing in the solar system, moving at roughly 20.5% the speed of light. So speed is more'n covered for distance runs.---
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