Reasons to KEEP the cruise change

[masternerdguy]

Well to the tradelanes statement, you travel faster than 1000 whatever/s in them, only the display stops showing it after 999. You can check that by watching at the map while using them or checking the intervals in which the gates pass by. Secondly to the energy consumption of keeping this speed, since we are in an almost perfect vacuum, you would only need energy for acceleration, not for the traveling itself. I also think that this energy comes out of the fuel and not from the ships energy core, which is mostly in place for powering the weapons. By the way, how can you speak of realism when it comes to travelling faster than the speed of light? As far as i know, it is impossible, at least for "conventional" matter.

you'd need a warp drive that moves the space your ship is in instead of you, space can go faster than light as far as we know.

But the point is getting a FIGHTER sized ship at 35% the speed of light would need a LOT of fuel and power for a conventional rocket, so I doubt a cruise engine is one.

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