Better situational awareness robocon@xxxxxx (17 Jul 2015 01:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Joseph Paul (17 Jul 2015 03:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Grimmund (17 Jul 2015 12:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Richard Aiken (17 Jul 2015 18:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Greg Nokes (17 Jul 2015 18:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Craig Berry (17 Jul 2015 19:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Grimmund (17 Jul 2015 19:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Bruce Johnson (17 Jul 2015 21:05 UTC)
RE: [TML] Better situational awareness Anthony Jackson (17 Jul 2015 21:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Jim Vassilakos (17 Jul 2015 22:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Grimmund (17 Jul 2015 23:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Craig Berry (17 Jul 2015 23:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Richard Aiken (18 Jul 2015 06:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Phil Pugliese (18 Jul 2015 15:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness Robert (18 Jul 2015 00:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness rupert.boleyn@xxxxxx (18 Jul 2015 04:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness Craig Berry (18 Jul 2015 04:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness rupert.boleyn@xxxxxx (18 Jul 2015 06:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness Rob O'Connor (19 Jul 2015 00:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness Craig Berry (19 Jul 2015 03:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness rupert.boleyn@xxxxxx (19 Jul 2015 09:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness Rob O'Connor (20 Jul 2015 09:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness rupert.boleyn@xxxxxx (19 Jul 2015 09:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Better situational awareness Greg Chalik (22 Jul 2015 06:43 UTC)

Re: [TML] Better situationalawareness rupert.boleyn@xxxxxx 18 Jul 2015 04:05 UTC

On 18 Jul 2015 at 10:23, Robert wrote:

> For example, Jupiter to Earth is 6 days away at 1G brachistochrone
> (constant acceleration/decel from midpoint), or a day away at 6G.

Time dereases proportional to the square root of acceleration, so if Jupiter is 6 days out
at 1G, it's ~2.5 days out at 6Gs.

> IMHO reactionless drives should be thrust limited (so many G-hours
> before you have to turn them off, or get near a massive body to
> offload the momentum you stole to gain velocity in the first place,
> etc.)
>
> Higher tech levels? More G-hours possible, more efficient drives
> (converting reactor energy to kinetic energy of vehicle thrust).

I just handwaved them as limited to 5% fo lightspeed. That's about 12 days' constant
acceleration at 1G, and 2 days at 6G. For normal operations in Traveller it only affects
5G and 6G drives, as they can hit the cap inside 3.5 days and thus it reduces the
distance at which an in-system jump is faster than a 5 or 6G ship.