Is it right that Voyager travelled 30 sectors = 3 years of journey (???) in The Voyager Conspiracy?
That would be another bad, bad error, because 30 sectors are 600 ly, and 3 years of journey would be about 3000 ly! I read this on the DeltaBlues page, but perhaps it's an error. At least I hope so.
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Voyager, when cruising, goes at the 933.3ly/y that we figured out a while back.
Due to all the stopping and exploring they do, their average speed is slower (meaning, if we take the actual distance they end up travelling in a straight line and divide it by the time it took, we'll get warp 6.2, as stated in "Pathfinder").
When they skip over a large distance and say "we've gone 10000ly, taking ten years off our trip), the "ten years" is how long it would have taken w/o stopping. If they had actually covered this distance normally, all the stoppping and exploring would have resulted in a longer time.
Now, that explains the discrepancy between ~1000ly/y and warp 6.2. However, there's still the problem of the three years and 30 sectors. Even at a diagonal, the longest distance that 30 sectors can cover is about 1040ly, which is only 2.4 years, even at an average of warp 6.2. So, here's what I think. "Thirty sectors" is the actual distance they travelled in a straght line. The reason that it would have taken three years to go that far normally is that there was something there that they had to go around. Perhaps there was some hostile race whose space they had to avoid, or something to that effect. Whatever it may have been, it would have taken three years to go around it, but the catapult flung them straight through it, so they only actually crossed thirty sectors.
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Of course I'm probably wrong, but until a better more accurate number comes up I'll stick with it and ignore Barclay's line. Although I also agree with TSN as well.
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[This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited December 04, 1999).]