'Crossing the Void' graphic

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<div>This is an original graphic I did for the 'Spaceflight' page of the doc to illustrate how FTL travel works in the SF universe, with the trip broken down by elapsed time, distance traveled, velocity over the course of travel, and gravity experienced on ship during the phases of flight. I found a Star Trek Warp Factor chart later and the Void portion of the trip comes out to around Warp 6... :)</div><div> </div><div>The silhouette of the ship is the destroyer from the KH book. The starfield in the background is from a galaxy far, far away... </div><div> </div><div>Here's the text from the document that goes with the graphic:</div><div> </div><div>"The graphic below shows an example voyage from the Timeon system to Prenglar, an established spacelane with 8 Light Years of separation between stars. At point A the ship is stopped as passengers and cargo are taken on and the ship’s course is calculated. Gravity on-board is 0g. At point B the ship is under way and accelerating at a constant 9.8m/s2 for 1g gravity (artificial gravity technology doesn’t exist, so gravity is achieved through acceleration [in ships] and centrifugal force [in space stations]). At point C the ship stops accelerating briefly in preparation for the jump (gravity drops to 0g); when final checks are complete, the ship accelerates past FP, crossing into the Void. The ship will spend only seconds in the Void (point D). Passengers aboard the ship will feel that their senses are very distorted; colors and sounds will be unfamiliar, the sense of touch will seem to vanish completely...the experience can be very disorienting! At the calculated moment, the ship decelerates to drop back into ‘normal’ space (point E). Once in normal space the ship will immediately execute a spin maneuver to position the engines toward the destination and begin the deceleration burn (point F). Gravity will return to 1g for most of the deceleration, but as the ship slows and thrust is reduced, gravity will fall again to 0g. At point G the ship has stopped (0g) and passengers and cargo can be offloaded at the station where the ship has docked."</div>