On 17 Jul 2015 at 21:59, Craig Berry wrote:
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> 5% of c relative to what? :)

> On Jul 17, 2015 21:06, <rupert.boleyn@gmail.com> wrote:

>     I just handwaved them as limited to 5% fo lightspeed. That's about
>     12 days' constant acceleration at 1G, and 2 days at 6G. For normal
>     operations in Traveller it only affects 5G and 6G drives, as they
>     can hit the cap inside 3.5 days and thus it reduces the distance
>     at which an in-system jump is faster than a 5 or 6G ship.

Background radiation. Velocity measured by red-shift, assuming any player ever
brought it up.