Afterburning speeds

[Baltar]

Awesome idea Dieter ... I agree ... the larger the ship the slower it would go. And battleships would require too much energy to get it moving. Mass has a huge impact to how a ship will respond. The larger the ship, the more energy it would take to get it moving.

This follows the same principle as the turn rate of a ship. The larger the ship, the harder it is to turn it.

Remember that there is no medium in space. Unless you were near some large mass, your vessls mass has no effect on it's speed.

Using a compressed air can, you could propel a liberty Dreadnought as fast as you could propel an Arrow Interceptor. It's not the mass that matters, it's the thruster itself.

I see two classes of thrusters: a standard fighter thruster and a standard capship thruster. 140 and 200 are cool for me.

Good idea, though, Dieter!

You're a bit off elgatodiablo. With your compressed can idea, that would also apply to the turn rate of the ships. Why would a gunboat have the same turning speed of a light fighter? In reality of physics, what turns a ship is compressed air jets that cause a ship to turn. So with what you are saying ... every ship should fly and turn at the same rate.

The Dreadnought and the Arrow cannot fly and turn at the same rate. It takes much more energy to redirect a Dreadnought. Now once you get the ship up to speed (which would take a while) ... the two could travel at the same rate. Acceleration will be significantly different. And to slow a Dreadnought down or turn it would take quite a bit of energy.