Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Higher maneuver drive acceleration is covered by inertial compensators, so a maneuver 6 ship would cut that time significantly. 1.75 months according to the online calculator I found.Accelerating a 100 ton mass to .9 times the speed of light takes a tremendous amount of energy and the momentum would be insane. Given the inaccuracy of jump location relative to the targets orbit, a "Planet Killer" jump capable ship is more likely to miss than to actually hit.
Additionally jumping requires a sophont on board to observe the jump or the jump will fail in some spectacular way.
Accelerating a human at 1G (Maximum sustained acceleration vector) to .9c would take about 2 years, I do not think a jump could actually be calculated that far ahead of time
The starship would have to accelerate for a large part of that time in deep space and have 1.4 years of life support for the sophont observing the jump or risk and automated low berth revival just prior to jump.
There are easier and more predictable ways to do massive damage to a planet and its population.
Besides, terrorism doesn't work if there is no one left to be terrorized.
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