So, somehow they managed to get to Alpha Centauri...

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Well, Alpha Centauri isnt that close. They somehow managed to reach relativistic speed, traveled there, and then still had to discover E=MC²?!
 
Illusion13 said:
Well, Alpha Centauri isnt that close. They somehow managed to reach relativistic speed, traveled there, and then still had to discover E=MC²?!
Relativity has already been discovered, the tech is IIRC applied relativity (using it for commercial gains), and Alpha Centauir certainly is close enough that relativistic speeds aren't neccesary.
 
Besides, they didn't reach relativistic speeds at all. The voyage took 40 Years!
(The intro claims thet the mission was launched in 2060, and first turn is 2100)
 
And it could very well be that they somehow had lost track of time, since they had slept for a while...
 
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