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Topic: Galactic spin and its effects on spacetravel (Read 3627 times)
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Angelfish
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When looking at one of the lately user-generated maps, I noticed the galactic spin being displayed in it too. Now, I'm wondering whether that galactic spin would have any effect on spacetravel. For example, moving from Sol to the Wolf systems would take shorter than traveling to the lyrae systems.
What are your thoughts on this?
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Draxas
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Presumably these coordinates are fixed in Hyperspace, and spinward/antispinward are just useful directions to know (sort of like east or west) in order to locate things.
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Dragon
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I don't know how UQM treats it but in the real world, thanks to relativity, it wouldn't make a difference unless you're uncomfortably close to Sagittarius A.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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But you're not going to go in a fixed, nonrelativistic speed, in real life. You start with the velocity of wherever you started.
In HS, who knows? But you'd have to be basically crawling through HS for the extremely slow galactic rotation to make a noticeable difference.
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