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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 3196131" data-attributes="member: 24357">So far I am understanding most of the science that is going on, so I think that is a good thing.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I wanted to keep some info fresh in the thread-- The diameter of the system is 2 LY from the outer most point to outer most point.  Our own system is a little over 3 LY across.- I think I can keep most of the campaign within the range of .5 (that’s a half, the period looks to be barely there on my screen) to 40 AUs- which is a far amount of space.  Anything out beyond about 10 AUs I think will be in a protected dome or space station, because of the improbability of a survival able atmosphere out any further then that, but that area still works for me.- Atmosphere travel can be restricted by drive type, snap of fingers, and what ever else magic the GM uses, so that helps.- Interstellar speeds not fast enough to get any where so that isn’t something I should have to worry about to much.- I still have some campaign ideas that would require the PCs to travel some 60,000 AUs- but I have faith in the people of EN to help me figure that out.- I am still thinking about speed of the ship in space, and wondering about how fast is to fast and how fast is to slow (1 AU/day is to fast for the inner system stuff while 1 AU makes the outer system (60k AUs out) seem implausible).  Shuld I just wave the hand on that too and say- “you are there,” or should I come up with a reason?  Thanks for your thoughts and science and stuff, its making this thing a little easier.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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