Life Expectancy of the Average Sirius Human

[Derkylos]

Also I'd assume that TLs protect ships from the effects of time slowing, so time passes as it should inside of the TL.

It's not an "effect" that can be "protected" against. It is the simple fact that the faster you travel, the slower time passes from your point of view. So, if you traveled "at" the speed of light for, say, a year, to a "stationary" observer at your start-/end-point, much more time has passed, possibly up to several years, or even tens of years.

Now consider how long it takes to get from one side of Sirius to the other (several months, I believe (game-time, not real-time)), and imagine how many times a long haul engine component shipper may do that run, or a Bounty Hunter chasing targets from one side of the Omegas to the other...

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