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far-trader
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Too many variables to answer the question 
What kind of ship and urgency? A J6 Naval Courier with resources in place to jump ASAP at each leg could do it pretty quickly. A J2 Far-Trader, having to spend a week in each system for business, and jump indirectly to get around rifts and maximize profits, as well as taking 2 weeks out each year for annual maintenance is going to take a long time.
I vaguely recall the X-Boat trans-Imperial message lag is over a year, and that's at J4 (average a bit less) with no layovers in each system. If my memory on that is close then I'd say:
A J6 Courier could do it in half the time (6 months).
A J2 Far-Trader in four times as long (4 years).
And you might be able to do it in twice that with lucky bookings and no layovers on various liners (2 years).
What kind of ship and urgency? A J6 Naval Courier with resources in place to jump ASAP at each leg could do it pretty quickly. A J2 Far-Trader, having to spend a week in each system for business, and jump indirectly to get around rifts and maximize profits, as well as taking 2 weeks out each year for annual maintenance is going to take a long time.
I vaguely recall the X-Boat trans-Imperial message lag is over a year, and that's at J4 (average a bit less) with no layovers in each system. If my memory on that is close then I'd say:
A J6 Courier could do it in half the time (6 months).
A J2 Far-Trader in four times as long (4 years).
And you might be able to do it in twice that with lucky bookings and no layovers on various liners (2 years).
A rough estimate would be about 300 parsecs. Travel time depends on the kind of ship you travel on and the astrography. By jump-3 it might be aroung 110 jumps (adding 10% to account for detours due to inconvenient astrography). Each jump would take about 10 days on regular sheduled liners, so something around 1100 days. Add another 10% (or more) to account for delays and missed connections. Call it three years and eight months.
Courier traffic might manage 5.5 parsecs per jump, say 55 jumps at 8 days per jump or one year and three months.
EDIT: X-boats may be jump-4, but according to canon they average 2.6 parsecs per week...
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far-trader
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Right you are, for some reason I had 3.6 in my head. So for my guesses above, double all estimates would be closer
Right you are, for some reason I had 3.6 in my head. So for my guesses above, double all estimates would be closer
Certain stretches do run >3Pc average for a bunch of jumps...
But not the ones important to this crossing.
Let's see... 9 sectors crossed in entirety from the SM to the furthest spinward of the 2000 worlds..9x32=288pc. Many chunks of the route in gateway are doglegging about due to the sparseness - J3 it's crossable (I checked); J2 it's not, go around for another 40+ Pc...
So, averaging 2.6 Pc/J, 110 jumps, ignoring the sparse leading to the rift, and the need to go coreward in Corridor, and rimward to reach gateway...
If only Travellermap.com had a routefinder....
