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I wonder how much data they gathered on Sol and the solar system before setting out, and how far away they gathered it from. If the nearest star system where the Alliance maintains observatories is more than a couple hundred light-years away, they would be outside our radio shell, but unless they were a lot further away than that, they would probably still be able to count our planets.
Well, the Expeditionary fleet is more than 3000 lightyears away from the nearest outpost, and there is no pre-meditated course plots. Each fleet's commander decides by themselves the next star system to jump towards when they're done surveying the current one. There's no need to extensively survey the star before jumping in, since it's always easier and plain simpler to just jump in and see everything directly, the only thing necessary is to determine the ecliptic plane to not run into a planet by accident (Or, rather, to add another three or four zeroes after the comma in the fraction of percent of chances of that happening, for the safety's sake), and for certain types of stars to check if they aren't expected to, say, blow up anytime soon. Would be bad to jump out into a nova's shockwave, amirite?
Ah, that explains the "are there planets?" attitude. Is Sol actually outside the borders of the Alliance, or is the Alliance itself just THAT thinly spread?
Fun fact: on certain specific radio frequencies, Earth is far brighter than the Sun. Those frequencies being the ones used by ballistic missile early-warning radars (hi Major!) and to a lesser extent television carrier signals. Source
BTW, I believe you mean, "A.U." (i.e. Astronomical Unit) rather than "A.E." The former is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles). I do not know what "A.E." would be.
28 AU's would put it just inside Neptune's average orbit (about 30 AU's).
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Raharr's version of a salute is generally performed with closed eyes, available free pair of hands raised to the shoulder level, and the right hand gripping the left fist, with the index finger pointing up. Its symbolic meaning is "Be your flame burning forever and brightly".
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Nautilus friend :)
I wonder how much data they gathered on Sol and the solar system before setting out, and how far away they gathered it from. If the nearest star system where the Alliance maintains observatories is more than a couple hundred light-years away, they would be outside our radio shell, but unless they were a lot further away than that, they would probably still be able to count our planets.
Well, the Expeditionary fleet is more than 3000 lightyears away from the nearest outpost, and there is no pre-meditated course plots. Each fleet's commander decides by themselves the next star system to jump towards when they're done surveying the current one. There's no need to extensively survey the star before jumping in, since it's always easier and plain simpler to just jump in and see everything directly, the only thing necessary is to determine the ecliptic plane to not run into a planet by accident (Or, rather, to add another three or four zeroes after the comma in the fraction of percent of chances of that happening, for the safety's sake), and for certain types of stars to check if they aren't expected to, say, blow up anytime soon. Would be bad to jump out into a nova's shockwave, amirite?
Ah, that explains the "are there planets?" attitude. Is Sol actually outside the borders of the Alliance, or is the Alliance itself just THAT thinly spread?
Fun fact: on certain specific radio frequencies, Earth is far brighter than the Sun. Those frequencies being the ones used by ballistic missile early-warning radars (hi Major!) and to a lesser extent television carrier signals. Source
BTW, I believe you mean, "A.U." (i.e. Astronomical Unit) rather than "A.E." The former is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles). I do not know what "A.E." would be.
28 AU's would put it just inside Neptune's average orbit (about 30 AU's).
Looks like a minor translation slip. A.E. is the same abbreviation in Russian.
So how did we get from the situation in the opening pages to this well organized fleet? You have my attention Darth Biomech.
What do you mean?
First sentence means... I am interested in your story. The second sentence means I am enjoying your story.
Also I missed the "narration" that said this page was happening a month earlier.