Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Nikosandros]

The Milky Way is big. Current thinking is that it's 200,000 light years across, end to end.

About half that, AFAIK. But still it is pretty big.

 

[Nikosandros]

Reddit has a good thread about FTL in the Alien universe that I am going to completely yoink for my Mothership game.

That's pretty interesting. Thanks for the link.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

About half that, AFAIK. But still it is pretty big.

Previous estimates were 100k to 160k light years. New research now suggests it's 200k, as I recall.

No matter what, though, Alien needs FTL and adding cryosleep to conserve resources (including the crew's mental health) makes sense.

And having a drive that's roughly 47 times the speed of light is a nice number to have in one's back pocket, as a DM.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Previous estimates were 100k to 160k light years. New research now suggests it's 200k, as I recall.

It depends on were you consider the “edge” to be. There is a lot of stuff that is gravitationally part of the galaxy beyond the visible spiral of stars.