my old group had an alternate solution.
first assumption- 1 sector(trav)=1 star map (2300)
now our history-
first at the end of the kafir war the group being pretty packed and of advanced universe shaking rank, the group leader becoming the sorta UN fleet/earth multinational kafir defense fleet high honcho/admiral sort (translate this realistically of course),the where embarked on the final kafir smashing battle. at this time the group was tired of nationalistic politcal infighting that almost lost the war. they were embattled politacally to get this mission off the ground when they got sick of it and pulled a fast one they took over and instatuted a federation of sorts. (i'm trying to skip the details but for info this sorta just evolved) any how the conquored the kafir and later kafir sung and pretty much all at least industrial teched aliens joined all non industrial teched were proteched. next the pents invented gravatics. gravatics btw was not "flying carpet" but field techs. it only allowed new tech advances and was used in augumentation of existing techs example- a atmo fighter still needed wings and propulsion to fly but smaller ones. this allowed those neat air cars to come about and flypacks.
now just how does a starship with 7ly shutter warp get to pleaidies anyway?
answer- a french reasearh based ship of the federation using new gravatic 8ly (remember kafir ships had greater range) drives has a mishap. the shutterwarp engine on its test flight appears to conflict with gravatic fields and instaed or the standard shutter warp jump in micro seconds it has a full 1 week jump (the new jump drives btw) and lands in the vland sector.
voila fist contact the just have a ceaser/rubicon type thing go on and you get the emperor going easy as pie to fit this all in and just recycle history to get it all real
first assumption- 1 sector(trav)=1 star map (2300)
now our history-
first at the end of the kafir war the group being pretty packed and of advanced universe shaking rank, the group leader becoming the sorta UN fleet/earth multinational kafir defense fleet high honcho/admiral sort (translate this realistically of course),the where embarked on the final kafir smashing battle. at this time the group was tired of nationalistic politcal infighting that almost lost the war. they were embattled politacally to get this mission off the ground when they got sick of it and pulled a fast one they took over and instatuted a federation of sorts. (i'm trying to skip the details but for info this sorta just evolved) any how the conquored the kafir and later kafir sung and pretty much all at least industrial teched aliens joined all non industrial teched were proteched. next the pents invented gravatics. gravatics btw was not "flying carpet" but field techs. it only allowed new tech advances and was used in augumentation of existing techs example- a atmo fighter still needed wings and propulsion to fly but smaller ones. this allowed those neat air cars to come about and flypacks.
now just how does a starship with 7ly shutter warp get to pleaidies anyway?
answer- a french reasearh based ship of the federation using new gravatic 8ly (remember kafir ships had greater range) drives has a mishap. the shutterwarp engine on its test flight appears to conflict with gravatic fields and instaed or the standard shutter warp jump in micro seconds it has a full 1 week jump (the new jump drives btw) and lands in the vland sector.
voila fist contact the just have a ceaser/rubicon type thing go on and you get the emperor going easy as pie to fit this all in and just recycle history to get it all real
