Travel time

[Backo]

What stops a planet from moving away from the tradelane?

In Freelancer universe the guys that made the squids (Daam K'Vosh, thank you wiki) decided to prank the universe and removed the orbits of each solar object.

If solar objects (planets, suns, stations, etc, etc) are moving, that means that every lane grid should be made to move as fast and not cross anything bad, like the sun or another planet. That means that if your ship stops completely, it will be moving away from objects, or rather the objects moving away from it. Then comes the question - at what speed should a planet move? Out of wikipedia it turns out our sweet Earth is moving with an orbital speed of 29.78 km/s. While a cruise engine supports the speed of 350m/s. Unless of course the measurement unit in Freelancer is different, though. But if we considered it the same, that would mean that cruise engines won't be enough to reach the planet any time you want. Add the fact the planet is spinning and it'll turn docking into a nightmare! But while on a planet, you have it's speed so maybe there was an idea that your navigation computer adjusts your dead (0 on HUD) speed to the speed the solar object you just took off had? But it still won't explain why all planets share the same orbiting time. Either way, Microsoft =/= Nasa so we gotta deal with it.

Another flaw is - in space where is vacuum, you shouldn't be losing speed, unless there are some particles to create friction and eventually slow you down, but ingame you lose speed pretty fast, almost like there's air! Oh and did I mention we hear sounds in vacuum! How cool is that?

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