The Core Expeditions Errata

[Sigtrygg]

A jump 1 ship that carries 50% of its displacement as fuel can make five one parsec jumps. If that jump 1 ship is TL12 is can take three fuel reduction advantages and now only needs to carry 35% of its displacement as fuel.

But I don't think that is what Vormaerin is alluding to. Within the current setting, using the rules as written in various supplements empty hexes, even those in rifts, are no linger empty empty. Given sufficient time, political and economical will then there are discoverable refueling points in just about every "empty" hex.

The setting should really apply its own rules. You can have light sabres arc weapons, personal energy screens, robots, protoyupe TL16 and 17 fabricators... but for some reason PC scale toys are acceptable but infrasctructure isn't considered. Is it because applying such technologies would require a complete re-write of the setting?

It's not as if the Imperium is just discovering the rifts last week, they have had a thousand years to map the "empty" hexes.

 

[Condottiere]

You trade time for space.

If you have fuel already onboard, the period spent between jumps would be mostly for checking your position and the equipment, which if it's a day, would make that about six weeks traversing five parsecs.

The way I calculate it, technological level twelve jump drive factor/three is the best compromise, between the two.

 

[mavikfelna]

Any Jump-2 or greater capable ship that carries a droptank equal in size to the ship's tonnage can make 5 jumps of 1 parsec each before it uses its internal fuel. This makes crossing most rifts trivial, but time consuming. This also works with jump 1 ships, but you must build the engine to handle a ship 2x the actual size.