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 Nilok wrote:
Can someone tell me what the sublight combat speed is for Mass Effect ships?

I recall from an engagement between Imperium and Tau starships that the ships were engaging at .7 - .8 c. 'c' being the speed of light/causality.

From math I did in many previous 40k vs X threads, the slowest 40k ships move roughly around 240,000 KPH. Which isn't even close to the speed of light, but it is pretty darn fast.




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 dusara217 wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Forging
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_the_Imperium#The_Forging_.28c._M32_-_c._M35.29
Also, 5th Edition Rulebook

The former link doesn't state just how much of an impact the Forging had vs the Great Crusade.

I shall ignore the latter because the 40k wiki lacks inline citations, making it infamously unreliable.

If the rulebook says it, it's another matter, but you will need to quote the passage and ensure it has not been retconned in later editions.

 dusara217 wrote:
Also, there are at least 100 billion planets in the galaxy, I find the idea of the Imperium's "dominance" over it preposterous, in and of itself, but that's beside the point.

It is worth remembering that almost all of those 100 billion planets are lifeless rocks, largely irrelevant except possibly for mining (and very rarely for terraforming).

There are 11 billion worlds believed to be habitable. 11,000x as many worlds as the Imperium owns (and this is disregarding the fact that many species undoubtedly had the capability to terraform planets at a whim).

IIRC that 11 billion number is only worlds which would be in the happy zone of the star they are orbiting. IE: not too close to where solar radiation would kill any life on the planet and not too far away to mean its nothing but a frozen hellscape. It doesn't mean the planet has an atmosphere or other environmental factors which would make it impossible for life to exist.