What would happen - Hijacked into Science of FL thread

[Tenacity]

Just one thing, does 'superluminal' mean faster than lightspeed? In that case, go check any trade lane's infocard, where it makes references to trade lanes being able to make ships travel at superluminal speeds. Now this is confusing me, because that means ships are going faster than light, which contradicts everything you guys have just said, which means DA needs to sort it's science out... I'm confuzzled...

And also, what are the units of distance used? The 'K' I'm pretty sure doesn't mean Kilometers, and the 'm' isn't miles. I think. Newgate Prison in Manchester mentions it's thousands of miles through empty space to the nearest base, so what the hell is the 'K' and how do these units of distance relate to ship sizes?!

*Brain explodes*

And if the JHs were shut down, I guess the pirates would just take the long route and fly between systems, like the first colonists to arrive in Sirius did. The journey wuld take months though, so not really a viable option...

superluminal does mean faster than light, but tradelanes dont move you that fast.

K is for kilometers. In a tradelane you travel at 1000 meters per second, while lightspeed is something like 836,000 meters per second.

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