The Star Wars universe doesn’t make much sense spatially anyway. Locations are as close or as far apart as the plot requires, sometimes ridiculously so, and never more or less.
Janeway fucked that sexy Irish holodeck character. She was fiending for dick. Then she got that dick and crafted that dick into a better dick and then she locked herself out of tinkering with the dick even further.
To be clear, even if you’re moving at 1000x the speed of light, and have figured out a way around relativity so that you don’t have time dilation (and so you can, y’know, go faster than the speed of light), galactic distances are still so vast that interstellar traffic is largely not feasible. Our galaxy–one of billions, trillions, or more–is about 2M light years across. Going all the way across the galaxy at 1000x the speed of light would still take 2000 years.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, six thousand light years thick
But out by us, it’s just a thousand light years wide
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
…And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space 'cause there’s bugger-all down here on earth.
If we somehow figured out how to travel at 1000x speed of light, I’m sure we’ll be able to increase that number to 1 million, 1 billion, and beyond. Until we just stopped using “speed of light” as a frame reference because it would be a completely different method of traveling (like instantaneous through a wormhole or something).
Americans will come up with some ridiculous unit for it, like 3 1/16 * 10^24 inches per lunar cycle
It depends on your frame of reference.
From inside the ship, light speed is faster. You travel arbitrary distance in an instant.
Outside the ship, everyone else sees you moving 1 light year per year, but for passengers, the voyage is essentially a forward-only time machine.
From outside the ship, warp speed is faster. Observers will see the warp bubble with a ship inside it moving >1 light year per year, and because it will arrive at its destination before light from the ships own past will arrive there, it acts like a view-only backwards time machine.
I thought warp speed is the speed of light. Anything above warp 1.0 is faster than the speed of light.
I think they called it “warp factor”. And Warp factor 1.0 is indeed equal to light speed.
Yea but warp 9 isn‘t 9x the size of light but much much more (somewhere between 800x and 1600x, depending which source you believe. But it’s not like trek canon is consistent there).
I suppose it’s somewhat logarithmic, since Warp 1 is c and warp 10 is infinite speed. probably gets a bit annoying in the Warp 9.975 range.
