CG WIP: a short 3D animation about avatar

[Exoblade]

Originally Posted by fierox

Thanks for the name suggestions, not bad at all!
Well i'm no expert on matter/antimatter but i guess it depends on the mass of the ISV? Lets assume its really light
Also the engines are only used for braking and then acceleration on the way back. A giant sail is used aswell.

Then again, i do tend to agree with you, these ships go at 0,7 lightspeed, my guess is the speed is a bit too fast to make it plausible, even with antimatter engines. But if not it would become a complete different story, space is just so damn big!

actually 0.7c is the top most practical speed that you could push a ship. Beyond 0.7c you need more fuel mass than the mass of the rest of the ship to move it. Though of course this means that at 0.7c 50% of the ISV's overall mass has to be in the fuel tanks, which mean they would have to be even bigger. probably to comic proportions.