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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8672934" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Here's something interesting that I found, regarding what scale of travel time could be plausible between planets of an interstellar empire.In 1914, a military convoy from Australia to Cairo spend seven weeks at sea transporting soldiers to support the invasion of Turkey.In 1944, reinforcements for Pearl Harbor took 12 days for the journey from Los Angeles to Honolulu.If you base the ideas for planetary colonies on remote cities in the early 20th century before air travel became common, these are the kind of travel times that people apparently were fine to put up with. 50 days in hyperspace to get to the homeworld, or 10 days just to reach the nearest other colony appears to something that would work for colony worlds with only a million inhabitants. For all intents and purposes, cities like Honolulu or Perth could just as well exist as the only major settlement of a whole planet. And that was at a level of modern technology dependence not even a hundred years ago.</blockquote>