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"...the largest spacelift in Federation history, where the over ten million inhabitants of Bayard's Planet were successfully evacuated."

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• 1.2 days, one-way travel at Warp 9 (TNG scale) over 5 light-years
• 12 hours to bring evacuees aboard, at 1,250 people per hour and 15,000 person limit
• 7.14 hours to deposit evacuees on receiving planet, at 2,100 people per hour (using one-way ship evacuation transporters at an additional 850 people per hour

• 3.6 days, one-way travel at Warp 8 (TOS scale) over 5 light-years
• 1.9 hours to bring evacuees aboard, at 1,560 people per hour and 3,010 person limit **
• Less than one hour to deposit evacuees on receiving planet (using one-way ship evacuation transporters at an additional 3,960 people per hour

• The ship's four 6-pad personnel transporters can handle one transport load every minute, for a total of 1,440 people per hour.
• The ship's 6 shuttlecraft can each carry an overload of 10 people at a time, making a round trip in 30 minutes, for a total of 120 people per hour.
• The three 22-person one-way evacuation transporters can handle a load every minute, for a total of 3,960 people per hour.

That gives us a round-trip figure of approximately 3.75 days for a single Constitution-class starship. But, considering the Constitution's much lower evac capacity, it would take 5 trips to match a Galaxy's capabilities.

Then I remembered FJ's Ptolemy-class tug with the double passenger pods. In that configuration, it would have an evac capacity of 8,540 people (3,500 in each pod, and 1,540 in the Ptolemy itself), and they could move an additional 4,320 people per hour with each pod's six independent personnel transporters. That would require 1.35 hours to beam everyone up (no shuttlecraft available), and again less than an hour to beam everyone down (since the evac transporters can again be employed, and there's access between each of the pods and the tug).

So, a Ptolemy so configured would only require 2 round trips to match a Galaxy's capabilities. With the same round-trip figure of 3.75 days (assuming that a Ptolemy can maintain Warp 8 with two overloaded transport containers, but just accept that for the moment) would mean 7.5 days to move 17,080 people.

Now, if we're moving a total of 10 million people, that will still require a total of 589 separate runs, back and forth to move everyone! Because I have nothing else to do on this lazy Sunday afternoon, I'm going to work out the various combinations of ships:

Time Required to Evacuate 10 Milllion People

Ships  # Runs   Total Days

1      589      2209 d (6.05 y)
2      294.5    1104 d (3.02 y)
3      196.33   736.25 d (2.02 y)
4      147.5    552.2 d (1.51 y)
5      117.8    441.75 d (1.21 y)
6      98.17    368 d (1.01 y)
7      84.14    315 d (10.5 mo)
8      73.625   276 d (9.20 mo)
9      65.44    245 d (8.17 mo)
10     58.9     221 d (7.36 mo)

Now, I think we can all agree that having the Ptolemys perform the evacuation may be extremely unlikely under certain circumstances. And that doesn't even account for the fact that this 10-million-person evacuation probably took place in the 2210's or so, almost fifty years before the Ptolemy came into service. Therefore, even with a whole raftload of ships, even if they had similar evacuation capacities and warp speed capabilities, it would take an incredibly long time to complete that evacuation!

Does anyone have any more about this "Bayard's Planet" incident they were talking about? I ran a quick search on Google, and the only reference I found was in Alex Rosenzweig's non-canon timeline, which gives a date of 2197 and attributes the reason for evacuation to a supernova shockwave (a real-life threat), which certainly could give the ships sufficient time to evacuate. But, conversely, the ships would need to take the evacuees a LOT farther away to escape the supernova's shockwave. (Confusingly, that timeline also says that the Zakdorn had to evacuate their homeworld, which had to have had a MUCH bigger population than just ten million! Yeesh, that's why I'm not fond of most fandom works... except the ones I like, of course. )

At any rate, this seems like a case of sci-fi hyperbole taken to an illogical extreme. Or am I just screwing up my calculations? Alternative opinions would be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Mountain Man:
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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Put all those people into EVA suits, beam 'em into space, use the tractor beam to give them some velocity towards their destination and let starships pick 'em up them before they starve or asphixiate.

Kinda the sporty way to do it.

With top notch starship crews, you'd only lose mabye 50-60,000.
No one'll even miss 'em!

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