Post by Falconer on Dec 17, 2020 15:22:26 GMT -5
Indulge me…
Talos is “only six days away at maximum warp,” Spock tells Pike at Starbase 11.
If following the warp scale from the TOS Writer’s Guide, presuming maximum warp = Warp Factor 8 = 1.4 light years/day, the distance is approximately 8 LY.
Star Trek Maps (1980) places them about 189 LY (58 parsecs) apart:
That’s much further than 8 LY. It would take 135 days to traverse according to the official WF scale. But according to STM’s own travel speeds (in the accompanying booklet), WF8 is more like 1,800 LY/day, which really is so insanely fast that it’s effectively a time warp—for all intents and purposes, you can be anywhere at any time. (My own personal warp factor scale works perfectly here: WF8 = 36 LY/day.)
Now, what about the FASAverse?
FASA kept STM’s overall shape but shrunk distances by a factor of 3:8 and ignored the third dimension. They also moved things around. For some reason, they relocated Starbase 11 from the frontier to the core, while correctly leaving Talos in the general vicinity of Rigel. Now the distance is 262 LY (80 parsecs), a distance which takes 188 days to traverse according to the TOS WF scale (which FASA uses).
But since SB11 is an artificial designation, it’s possible this was an in-universe change. So what happens if we put SB11 back in its STM equivalent position?
This is still a 114 LY (35 parsecs) distance, an 82 days’ journey. Still no good. The only planets that FASA (in its The Orions supplement) has placed near Talos are Ing (7 LY away) and B’Morgia (11 LY away), but no-one as far as I know has heretofore proposed that either one was ever the site of a Starbase.
Talos is “only six days away at maximum warp,” Spock tells Pike at Starbase 11.
If following the warp scale from the TOS Writer’s Guide, presuming maximum warp = Warp Factor 8 = 1.4 light years/day, the distance is approximately 8 LY.
Star Trek Maps (1980) places them about 189 LY (58 parsecs) apart:
That’s much further than 8 LY. It would take 135 days to traverse according to the official WF scale. But according to STM’s own travel speeds (in the accompanying booklet), WF8 is more like 1,800 LY/day, which really is so insanely fast that it’s effectively a time warp—for all intents and purposes, you can be anywhere at any time. (My own personal warp factor scale works perfectly here: WF8 = 36 LY/day.)
Now, what about the FASAverse?
FASA kept STM’s overall shape but shrunk distances by a factor of 3:8 and ignored the third dimension. They also moved things around. For some reason, they relocated Starbase 11 from the frontier to the core, while correctly leaving Talos in the general vicinity of Rigel. Now the distance is 262 LY (80 parsecs), a distance which takes 188 days to traverse according to the TOS WF scale (which FASA uses).
But since SB11 is an artificial designation, it’s possible this was an in-universe change. So what happens if we put SB11 back in its STM equivalent position?
This is still a 114 LY (35 parsecs) distance, an 82 days’ journey. Still no good. The only planets that FASA (in its The Orions supplement) has placed near Talos are Ing (7 LY away) and B’Morgia (11 LY away), but no-one as far as I know has heretofore proposed that either one was ever the site of a Starbase.