Brigade XO wrote:Heck selling the GA or the Alignment an engine that will do Warp 6 would change a few things.
Meh. Warp 6 is a mere 392c, using the TNG scale, according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia. Compare that to the beta band in the hyper band effective speed table.
FTL (subspace) sensors and long range FTL comms would be killer, though. The Honorverse doesn't even have FTL sensors, and its FTL comms are a mere 62c. Meanwhile, in the SNW "Lift Ws Where Cuffering Cannot Reach" episode two weeks ago, Spock said the effective speed of relayed subspace comms was around 52000c. And IIRC the Encyclopedia gave a number of just under 200,000c for TNG-era comms. Of course, the very next week (last week), SNW made a point of saying "comms will take two days" for only 20 minutes later have real-time communications...
Consistent, ST ain't.
Which reminds me, two new ST episodes today: Strange New Worlds and The Orville.