User blog:Captain rudder guy Kevin1/Telos distance issue/ what are our FTL speeds?

So, a couple of things have come to my attention that I think we need to resolve. The first is, what is the distance to the Telos star system. Now, this is important in regards to both travel time, and the cost of getting there. The second, is the actual speed and travel times for FTL travel.

So the first issue is distance. How far away is Telos from earth and other systems? So far the only quote I've gotten is a whopping 10,000 LY. Which, is really far away, too far to reach in a reasonable amount of time unless we make our FTL travel really really fast, such that it's only hours to Neo Earth (can't spell the new one) which is 10 LY. If say, it was 20 LY, that would give more reasonable travel times.

Now, for whatever we settle on for the distance, we need to establish how fast we actually go. Now, if we go conservative on our speeds, say less than 10 times c, it takes a very long time even to reach Neo Earth. RP response times are obviously not that long, so it must be quicker. I've heard somewhere I think 2 weeks to Neo Earth, which seems to be a reasonable figure. Or we could go faster, perhaps ships go to Neo Earth near instantaneously, which would also negate any distance issue for Telos.

So, post some suggestions below about this subject, and a resolution to these issues. Eventually we'll have a vote on it.