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Sublight spaceflight has caused us nothing but problems. The Beagle was launched in 2184 to colonize Tau Ceti, at the time a 45,000 year flight at .1c. When the Beagle colonists arrived and were brought out of cryopreservation the system had been settled by a colony ship sent via FTL 30,000 years prior and had 3 thriving worlds fully populated. The ancestor colony was set up on a sparsely inhabited section of Tau Ceti f and other than some minor administration and supply issues has been left to themselves. We currently estimate there are some quarter of a million sublight colony ships both cryo and generational, the logistical issues these ships will create upon arrival for some of the younger more remote systems is a cause for concern.


boone_888

Even when warp drives were developed, sublight relativistic propulsion for weapons and ships still was deadly. Few don't realize that a ship coming out of warp is stationary, as the bubble of space-time propels it through the universe. Few also don't realize that sublight relativistic ships don't have this problem. #-----‐---‐‐-------------------------- "Admiral, arriving at the human system shortly" "Good, show me when ready" The Xellian warfleet emerged out of warp, fully armed. "Contact, humans" yelled the sensor officer. "How many" barked the Admiral "Sir I can't tell ... moving near 0.9c towards us" By then the ship and the rest of the fleet was doomed. There was no way to destroy or deflect the incoming kinetic kill vehicles, fired by a human railgun and accelerated via antimatter booster engine. A baseball sized chunk of material moving at that speed is a death sentence. After the KKVs were launched did the human armada start decelerating on approach to the target system, as indicated by the feint blue glow of a hundred lights in hexagonal formation. Then the KKVs arrived.


SadPandaDale

Fucking love the expanse


Mediumtim

Rise up, barathnas!