Sublight Travel

Sublight Travel

Traveling through the galaxy requires pilots to navigate both hyperspace and realspace. Everything of importance in the galaxy (at least that which is known) exists in realspace, so hyperspace is merely a means to access distant areas of realspace. After leaving a planetary atmosphere, any starfaring vessel must place sufficient distance between itself and the anterior sphere. Attempting to plot a course through hyperspace too close to a powerful gravity well confuses the navicomputer and activating the hyperdrive engages its safety protocol, yanking the ship back into realspace and placing strain on the ship. Ion drives are one common classification of sublight engine. Regardless of what type of sublight engine is used, travel through realspace takes approximately the same length of time for most ships unless they have truly extraordinary acceleration.

The following table provides approximate travel times for various realspace destinations:

DESTINATION	TRAVEL TIME RANK
Safe jump distance away from planet	Rank 3-4 (1 to 3 minutes)
Planetary orbit to local moon	Rank 6-8 (10 to 30 minutes)
Planetary orbit to another planet in the system	Rank 10-11 (2 to 6 hours)
Planetary orbit to the edge of the system	Rank 12-14 (8 to 24 hours)

Sublight Drive

◊Descriptors – computer, electronic, energy, kinetic, machine, nuclear, radiation, technology

◊Effect – Movement • 1 point

Sublight Drive (personal Space Travel)

 

◊Modifiers – activation: -1 flat point

◊Action – move action

◊Range – personal

◊Duration – sustained

◊Results – travel to other planets in a star system

Description

This system accelerates a space vessel through realspace at tremendous speeds allowing it to reach distant features of the local star system.

A vessel with this system can travel through the vacuum of space to other locations within the local star system.

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