How fast are SE4 ships. OT: How big is a system?

Slick · #1 January 26th, 2003, 07:22 PM

I find that interesting. As for comparison also, escape velocity for the earth is about 17,000 miles/hr. c = 186000 miles/sec.

If you do the conVersion, escape velocity is on the order of 2x10^-5 c.

So our current spacecraft speeds are roughly 1000 times slower than SE4 spacecraft.

Slick.

[ January 26, 2003, 17:24: Message edited by: Slick ]

Kamog · #2 January 26th, 2003, 10:00 PM

Geo has made some calculations regarding SEIV ship speeds and light speed, a few months ago, in this thread:

OT: How fast is light speed in SE4 terms? -> Maximum possible speed? -> insanity

Very interesting!

Magnum357 · #3 January 27th, 2003, 09:16 AM

Actually guys, this dosen't supprise me at all. Space Empires is actually based on the old board game called "Starfire" by task Force games. Ships in that game could didn't use conventional Vector thrust engines like we have today. They are too combersome and would require too much fuel to get to any fast Velocity to be practical. Starfire had the concept of "Feild Propulsion" with Thrust of Ion Engines. This Feild would allow the ship to reach high velocities (up to 10% of the speed of light or "c") and able to perform fast maneuvers with internal gravity systems (otherwise the crew would be turned into tomato paste).

I think the same thing applied in SE. ships use some sort of "Feild" to allow it too move up to 2 to 3% of the speed of light. This feild might warp space some, or maybe it decreased the mass of the ship or something.