Solar Sail???????

[Kagetora]

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Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
The idea of a solar sail giving you extra speed is idiotic!!!
If a ship running on it's own engines deployed such a device, it would act as a drag chute,slowing down the ship not speeding it up!!! This needs to be removed from the game. Besides wouldn't you only move in the direction of the wind?

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Well there is no wind in space nor is there anything to create any "drag" so a solar sail would most certainly not slow you down any. Whether it would speed the ship up or not depends on how fast it can go already. A solar sail over time could get you very close to the speed of light at least theoretically.