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So I've got a conundrum. If we accept the distances that real-life gives us, then to get to any other empire in a reasonable amount of time (say, 5-10 years to get to the Septonium Concordant), then my ships have to travel at four to two thousand c (that's 4000-2000 times the speed of light). People might be justifiably frightened of such colossal speeds. Even then, a "turn" in this RP would have to cover a year or so for ships to get anywhere any time soon. Alternatives include wormholes, jump-lanes, and other non-"FTL Drive" types of propulsion, but I find it mildly annoying that to function as a space-empire, we'd [i]have[/i] to use that type of tech (different types of FTL travel mean different tactical and roleplay advantages). Additionally, we'd need to create a jump-lane/wormhole map for most of the galaxy, and everyone would have to pick locations again. 

Or we could shrink the entire galaxy by a couple of factors of ten.

Or maybe we're okay with ships that can go 4000c.

Thoughts? (Obviously Mattmaganon gets final say)