Rules Only: V=AxT and S=0.5xAxT^2

[BackworldTraveller]

You would need to carry an awful lot of fuel for the power plant

Depending on which canon you go by STL speeds of 0.9c are achievable with regular m-drives.

True - but why that limit...the ship doesn't feel any different

 

[mike wightman]

Ramscoops.

Don't work.

 

[RogerD]

I always thought a fun “what if” was to just take the TRAVEL Rules as written and apply the “magic MD” to interstellar travel. What if a species never invented Jump Drive but found that the Gravity Manipulation of the MD had no Speed of Light limitations? So a very large ship built for an infrequent, but very long journey might cross parsecs using only a MD and constant acceleration.

Just to elaborate this idea a little bit, if my math is right, 1pc at 1g would take 184 weeks and 75 weeks at 6g. 4pc would double those times, but they are still quite long.

I thought of Heinlein’s Time for the Stars when I read this, where telepathy is not limited by the speed of light but travel is and has relativistic effects. May have to reread it!