Sorry about carrying along the whole of the previous discussion, but Rob
Miracle has replied to this string:
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>Now for the question. The final battle of the Fourth Frontier War was the
>Battle of Two Suns, so called because it took place somewhere between Yres
>and Menorb (see Library Data A-M, and Adventure 1 - Kinunir). What were two
>battlefleets doing in interstellar space? (Apart from blowing holes in each
>other! :-)
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> In my opinion this could not have happened, and is really an artifact
>of an earlier conception of the game. The particular entry he cites was
>culled from Adventure Module 1 (The Kinunir), which was issued before High Guar
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>came out (I think), and before Trillion Credit Squadron (certainly). The mere
>fact that that module describes a 1250ton vessel as a "cruiser" compared to
>the later 50,000ton+ cruisers, and equips it with a black glode marks it as,
>shall we say, a trifle obsolete. (However--the Traveller Adventure includes
>a battle as a deep space refueling rendevous).
Well, there is one thing to consider about this. In space, stars are rarely
one parsec apart. I am not sure about the distance between Yres and Menorb,
but for arguments sake, lets assume that it is one hex on the star map. The
stars could be any place within that hex. So lets say that this is the setup:
+-----+
/ \
< Yres >
\ * /
+-----+
/ * \
< Menorb >
\ /
+-----+
The asterik indicates where the stars are. It is possible that they are close
to being a binary system, just that one doesn't rotate around another. In
which case the battle could have occured in deep space.
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I like the nifty diagram, but the problem still remains...let's accept this
line of argument and say that the stars themselves are only half a lightyear
apart. Let's see, at 180,000mps that is something like 6.7 E12 kilometers.
Two fleets starting in each system, and accelerating at 2Gs to the halfway
point in normal space would take d=1/2at^2 where d=3.35E12 and a=20m/sec^s.
That makes t about 212 days, if I didn't slip a decimal, which is too much
to bother with, which means they would have had to have jumped to get there,
in which case Adrian Hurt's objection still holds. QED and all that.
Rob (was my math right?) Dean