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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Evil_Lord: [QB] Actually, I conjecture that interstellar warfare in SF is/has to be much more 'direct' - you simply can't hold together a complex body like the Federation by saying "ok, if you cross the border there, we'll retaliate some days later in this and that key sector" (which would be the case if the Federation was indeed 8000 lightyears in diameter, and starships were limited by the 1000 ly/y speedlimit). Claims to territory need to backed up by a (nearby) potent force that can immediately respond to incursions, and, if necessairy, strike back into enemy space at will. In my other reply I forgot about the warp-corridors which supposedly have a lower "subspace drag coefficient" but these are offset by the warpfactor 5 speedlimit that was imposed on all vessels in "Force of Nature". This makes an 8000 ly wide Federation even more unlikely, IMHO. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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