| Ryuu96 said: Small ask but I wish there was some sort of radio station for music and news in Starfield, I'm just trying to think of how it could work since FTL hasn't been invented in Starfield for travel or communications yet. Something like Fallout's radio stations. Your character having a set of pre-downloaded songs could work but that isn't really a radio station, Lol. The SSNN could only really work in worlds with major settlements. |
They definitely have FTL in Starfield, the distances between some of the systems in Light Years are quite big, I know that in order to get the visit all systems achievement you have to build a ship capable of a 27 Light Year jump, which is the longest jump in the game between 2 systems. Your character obviously isn't spending like 108 years one way to travel to a single system (.25 light speed is the fastest you can safely go through conventional propulsion without experiencing significant relativity effects as I recall, and at 0.25 light speed a 27 light year jump becomes 108 years). Even just a jump from Sol to Alpha Centuari, one of the shortest jumps in Starfield, is like 4+ light years, which at 0.25 light speed would be a 12+ year journey one way.
I don't think they have super fast FTL in Starfield, but they have to have FTL, it's the only way that the map size could work at all. Starfield FTL is likely a lot slower than 24th century Star Trek Warp Drives, as known space by the TNG-VOY era of Trek is like 15,000+ light years across, with the Federation alone being 8,000 light years from one side to the other (meaning that Federation ships realistically need to be able to travel from one side of the Federation to the other in like a few months maximum). I'd say that travel speeds in Starfield are closer to 22nd century Star Trek, NX-01 Enterprise and it's Warp 5 drive. Starfield's map from one corner to the other, Eridani in the bottom left to Bohr in the upper right, is like 130 light years. Even just so called civilized space in Starfield, the area of the map that has major habitated system, from the human colonies in Sol to the vacation planet in the Porima system, is 42 light years across. You're not crossing through Starfield's map multiple times in a few months in-universe without going at least several hundred times the speed of light
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