Spent a little time this evening calculating how long it takes for a Knight Hawks ship to accelerate to Void jump speed and back.<br /><br />Using Wolfram Alpha, I put in: "speed under constant acceleration to 0.01c at 9.8m/s^2" which gave me roughly 3.5 days to accelerate from 0km/h to 0.01c.<br /><br />The works quite nicely with the deceleration boxes for Sathar in the Knight Hawks campaign map for Second Sathar War.<br /><br />Using the form, I then put initial speed to 17000mph and recomputed, just to get a feel. It seems if you start from freefall in orbit, at typical Earth orbit speeds, it saves about 13 minutes of acceleration.<br /><br />I also noticed that 12,000,000 km/h is over 0.01c.<br /><br />0.01c is 10,790,000 km/h... so I am going to read Knight Hawks as saying to jump into the Void, you have to exceed 0.01c and crossover to the void happens around 12,000,000km/h rather than 0.01c.
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