Ever try to recall troops/squid/grunts/jarheads on shore leave?……when
there’s NO established protocols/orders for “you can only go here”, “you
can’t go there”, “this far shalt thou go, and no farther”; no time/date
to return to ship; no centralized communications for recall.
Puts me in mind of the story “And Then There Were None” (Eric Frank
Russell). A spaceship lands on a “new” planet. “For reasons”, crewmen
continued to desert, and couldn’t be recalled. The ship finally, in
desperation, had to lift with less then a full crew, rather then be
stranded due to NO crew.
PC, you may want to find and read this story. May give you some ideas
for this current storyline. Funny!
abelard.org/e-f-russell.php
The world might be better off if everyone were to learn and use the word “MYOB” (especially to the “Karens” and “Karls” of the world”.
(for those who are curious, MYOB = Mind Your Own Business)
Hmmmm…..
Being distracted maybe? Knowing how much the Catians love to dance and party…
Or could it be they are already on tours of their own?
PC you sly cat…
Rumor has it, that during a major military exercise in Australia, back in
the mid to late 1970’s, while docked in the Brisbane port, local’s from
the Enoggera Barracks extended a courtesy to their American Sailor Brethren
and some Marines, and generously invited them back to the Barracks.
They were duly introduced to their Hosts, the 6th Battalion, and members
of other local units,, and the visiting Nepalese Regiment, that being two
full platoons of Gurkha’s.
The thing about Nepalese Regiment entitlement is the Black Rum, supplied
to their Barracks, in 44 Gallon Drum lot’s. Good Regimental Perk, that.
Grand comradery was had. The American Sailor and Marine Brethren, more
than fifty of them, though life was great, until they sobered up, the
following Monday morning.
Life then became less that pleasant, when the mischief was found out
and the Chief Warrant Officer’s were deployed, both the American Naval
and Australian Army versions.
This had caused great angst to the powers that be, not to mention the
eventual issues and problems, and the one week delay in departing to
the training area, a few days sail away.
While this event was mostly quietly glossed over, except for the eventual
regimental punishments meted out, never underestimate the bastardry that
can be deployed with the velvet glove of alleged friendship and goodwill.
These sorts of underhanded “Goodwill” gestures and methods could also be
equally deployed against those that you wish to Shanghai.
After all, who doesn’t like a Free Bunk, bedding and hot showers included,
and Free Meals, with lot’s of Booze for a few days, amongst their new
“friends”?
Toss in a few other “Goodwill” gestures and it’s amazing the trouble you
can eventually cause. Oorah, what can I say, we were all young once.
This was a tactic that many of the French resistance used to distract German soldiers
while they were carrying out their plans… or at least was done in comedy movies lol
It’s a handy trick once, but only once unless you silence the people you used it on
because they will report what happened and new orders given from then on making
very hard to use it again on the same group.
Taking the Catia’s Pride’s travel time to Xanadu, they spend 6 days
going to Catia, 6 days back and now another delay?
Are they playing for time to retrieve the Dogushian occupation forces
from those occupied 3 planets? Maybe leaving their ships and weapons
to the formerly occupied locals?
So many possibilities.
Roughly eighteen days from Dogishua to Xanadu. Xanadu is at the center of the
inhabited worlds, and Dogishua is opposite Catia. So figure roughly eighteen
days between Xanadu and Catia. Going from Catia to Dogishua via the trade route
through the fringe worlds would take 42-45 days or so, with no stops.
If wormhole transitions are essentially instantaneous, why do
some routes take days or even weeks? Is that the result of
travel between incoming and outgoing wormholes?
The locations of the wormhole could be a big part of travel times too they could be millions of miles
apart you figure with current tech it can take 2 days to reach the moon from Earth and that’s 274,000
miles away. It makes sense that the wormholes would react to each other they are mostly strong
gravity wells if they are large enough whole planets could be pulled in.
Think about it this way.
An active Wormhole could not comfortably exist in a local Planetary system without causing a tidal gravity impact.
So if earth had a nearby active Wormhole, then it would be located way beyond Pluto, or we wouldn’t be here.
This then begs the question, how long would it take to travel from that location, to say, Mar’s?
Also, bearing in mind, the local solar system, as contained by our Sun, is relatively distant from our next closest local Solar system/s.
The preference for habitation and movement would be those Wormholes closet to inhabited or resource rich Planetary systems, that are also nearby to other inhabited and/or resource rich Planetary systems, with stable star systems.
In the case of earth, we are a lone Star system up a spiral arm, and if the Wormhole was way past Pluto, that’s a fair distance and would take some time.
So, a bit of quick math, then.
Light speed, estimated around 186,282 miles per second.
Let’s guess that no Space fairing Race’s vessel is yet near remotely light speed capable.
So, based on our current known earth technology, a journey of 300 million miles, roughly earth to mars, currently takes around seven months, one way.
Let’s Double your Technology capability.
Now, in a straight line that takes you around 3 months at your new velocity. It’s also original Bugatti technology, no brakes.
Should we Double that velocity again, it takes you around a week, traveling roughly around 98,400 mph. So, stopping or even slowing down then. OK.
As a guide, Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. The speed is constant, It doesn’t need to stop in any hurry.
All of which is a long way from the speed of light, but you are still going to take a few weeks or even months, to get to A from B, and back again.
Space, very big place, not much in it, relative to it’s size. This then begs the question, where’s your nearest wormhole, and where does it go?
Once you get there, how many hundred’s of millions of miles do you need to traverse, and at what velocity, to reach the next wormhole?
Hark back to the Ambassador speaking to the Catians, and letting it slip that it takes around three months via the indirect route, to get news and small stuff from home.
Also, as noted, our math is not based on any orbital or other antic’s to slow your vessel down from some percentage of sub light speed.
This is where the Catians get to use Anti Grav, while negating the need to use reverse thrust for a month, to slow down relative to their target. (Planet, Star System, Wormhole, etc.)
I would guess that no space faring race, yet, has achieved more than ten percent of light speed capability, at best, in terms of velocity, given the times and technology types being tossed around.
However, with Wormhole technology, even with the distance’s between wormholes, and the time (weeks or months) taken to get there, it’s still a pretty good way to get around, relatively speaking.
Add that to PeterCat’s obvious answer, and yeah, many jumps between origin and destination, and the time taken to get to each known jump-point, infers that everybody has the same logistical problems.
This also begs the question if any Race outside of the Core Worlds currently have vessels and technology even remotely comparable and performant to the Core Worlds.
Remember, PeterCat is describing the Core Worlds as suppressing their subject Races, which would sensibly include Weapon and Naval, both Civil and other (Space Capable) technology.
Depending on your observance to the technological advances of the proposed or alleged Kardashev scale, and related civilization advances, then at best, we are talking about Space Faring races that are mostly greater than Kardashev Zero, but not greater than Kardashev Two.
This guesstimate also fails to take in to account the gradients within each Kardashev scale, the time taken to achieve them, and any multiplier affect on that society’s technology and social advancement, compared to any other comparable society.
Lastly, achieving the requirements for that Kardashev scale incremental milestone, doesn’t necessary mean that advancement will be deployed, or even developed.
This is probably why we can’t see too many Dyson spheres around.
Achieving the same or similar results and benefits, or even not being able to justify the need, or use of, a Dyson sphere, doesn’t mean that society isn’t advancing in some other fashion, be it overly positive, or negative..
Then of course, they could be a parasite society, like the Core Worlds, and rest on their laurels, suppressing overall social and technology achievements, until somebody invents something useful they understand, and eventually, in some fashion, deploys.
The wolf Empire, for example, has early generation, working Anti Grav technology, and it’s related spin offs, although it doesn’t assist in achieving near light or F.T.L, or anything close to that.
However, it is a major technological advance compared to other races. Which then begs the question, what else is to come out of the Wolf Empire?
What else can the Wolf Empire invent or repurpose that would negate the Core Worlds technology’s and current advantages?
Lastly, what happens to the balance of power when the Wolf Empire make the Servant Races more independent, more technologically advanced, relative to the Core Worlds, and more self sufficient?
I believe that’s the idea Catians have escaped their slavery and wish to do the same for all races
there will be strife and diplomacy by the ton the dominate races will not want to loose their power
but bringing balance is their main goal I believe and sharing tech and trading fairly will make that
happen pretty quickly and in order for the core worlds to survive they will have to make sweeping
changes as well or find themselves in the same boat the fringe worlds were in.
Faster travel between wormholes and maybe shielding to stop/reduce lag would settle things very
quickly in the power struggle and the discovery of new wormholes as well.
The biggest advantage the Wolf Empire has is the grav tech it’s not a far jump they could have a working
warp drive with the right changes but then they would need a practical shield against the micro dust between
solar systems not a defensive one they wouldn’t need a massive powerful one able to stop energy beams
or missiles just a deflector shield. Yes I know getting a bit trekkie here but it makes sense. Basically from what
I’ve read a gravity field rather than a beam is needed to create a warp bubble so the grav engines would not
be able to function so a different means would have to be used to start the motion. There’s a whole slue of
new tech would need invented in order to bypass the need for wormhole travel but it would reduce the travel
time between the wormholes a trip that takes a sixday might only take a day tops(allowing for lag).
Scarsdale,
While some of that has merit, the Grav Tech can work both ways.
In order to deflect small inbound obstacles and such, all you
need is a weak low power field facing outwards from the vessel.
Whether this is deployed in the form of a bubble style, or in a
gravitational wave style, makes little difference.
The Grav engines them selves would overpower the method used by
magnitudes of order, even at idle, or whatever low power
mode would be referred to.
So, simple shield technology problem solved, but there would remain
upper limits to speed. As for Near Light Speed or FTL, not a hope.
As for chasing the Kardashev scale, and trying to invent Kardashev
based Technology a magnitude of order beyond your civilization’s
capabilities, that isn’t likely, as too many companion technologies
and knowledge advances would need to exist.
However, having said that, the end result of the current Catian
trading market approach means less overall Wormhole travel for most.
The long distances currently cursed to all, via the logistics of
extended Wormhole travel, are a Core World problem, while trying to
maintain and project control over a wide area of space.
Consider this.
What would a variance of even ten percent of the trade and technology
transfer from the current Core World Kingdom look like, if adjacent
Kingdom’s traded among themselves?
Also, long distance freight would NOT route via the Core Worlds, nor
be denominated in their choice of currency, trade, politics and control.
Long distance freight would be negotiated directly between those that
have mutual needs, which means more profit, better quality, shorter
targeted trading routes and more timely delivery, as you no longer
have long distance trade routes and a middle (Core World) Broker,
trying to control, limit, or suppress markets.
While Ten percent of the overall GDP doesn’t sound like much, the
change in Political, Military and Social Dynamics would have an enormous
knock on effect.
Remembering once again, the Racism and Specialism that is also rife.
So many Worlds, once given choice, would likely move away from both
choices, and go their own way. Balkanization is a thing, and would
only benefit the Catian and Wolf Empire.
The Core Worlds are rich to be plucked and White Anted, as nobody
clearly likes them, their just forced to deal with them.
The biggest hurdle isn’t so much the tech for near light speed it’s the acceleration, the crew would pull
hundreds of G’s with that hard of acceleration!
Without a means of counteracting that it would make soup of the crew and trash the ship and since
the grav drives only pull they aren’t going to help either. Someone has to break the laws of physics or
like warp drive find a way around it.
With any trip in space you accelerate 50% of the way and decelerate the rest of the way or crash into
your destination. Inertial damping would solve 85% of the FTL problems of heavy acceleration. Cancel inertia
and hard acceleration doesn’t create gravity forces.
The earliest ideas for FTL was a gravity bubble just in front of the ship to pull it into FTL but that much gravity
in one small space would create a micro-singularity that would be out of control and shred the ship and
not make it very far much less FTL.
Like the Trek movie “First Contact” since the damping wasn’t very good they had to gain close to light speed
or the jump into warp would kill them and trash the ship. Since the current tech that the terrans have has no
damping field or anti-gravity they can’t accelerate much past 1 g which would take 2-3 weeks (apx) to reach mars
from earth
You’re missing something. The ships have internal gravity plates to provide
artificial gravity and counteract acceleration. If the ship is accelerating at X
gees, and the internal plates are pulling everyone aboard in the same
direction at X-1 gee, then the crew would only feel an apparent 1 gee acceleration.
The gravity tech can only amplify gravity, not negate nor reverse it.
It would be possible to mount grav drives on pylons outside of the ship
to pull space debris away from the ship, but they would either have to
be used sparingly or replaced often.
“locating your crews might be difficult at the moment”
?????
Ever try to recall troops/squid/grunts/jarheads on shore leave?……when
there’s NO established protocols/orders for “you can only go here”, “you
can’t go there”, “this far shalt thou go, and no farther”; no time/date
to return to ship; no centralized communications for recall.
Puts me in mind of the story “And Then There Were None” (Eric Frank
Russell). A spaceship lands on a “new” planet. “For reasons”, crewmen
continued to desert, and couldn’t be recalled. The ship finally, in
desperation, had to lift with less then a full crew, rather then be
stranded due to NO crew.
PC, you may want to find and read this story. May give you some ideas
for this current storyline. Funny!
abelard.org/e-f-russell.php
I forget how to turn this into a link. Eric Frank Russel was always one of my favorite authors growing up.
https://www.simpleliberty.org/bookshelf/and_then_there_were_none-1951.htm
The world might be better off if everyone were to learn and use the word “MYOB” (especially to the “Karens” and “Karls” of the world”.
(for those who are curious, MYOB = Mind Your Own Business)
Hmmmm…..
Being distracted maybe? Knowing how much the Catians love to dance and party…
Or could it be they are already on tours of their own?
PC you sly cat…
Sort of a shore leave going on?
The Cat, as always, sayeth nothing.
I enjoy my readers’ speculation. It often Gives Me Ideas.
Reader input is a wonderful thing.
Herekittykitty,
Rumor has it, that during a major military exercise in Australia, back in
the mid to late 1970’s, while docked in the Brisbane port, local’s from
the Enoggera Barracks extended a courtesy to their American Sailor Brethren
and some Marines, and generously invited them back to the Barracks.
They were duly introduced to their Hosts, the 6th Battalion, and members
of other local units,, and the visiting Nepalese Regiment, that being two
full platoons of Gurkha’s.
The thing about Nepalese Regiment entitlement is the Black Rum, supplied
to their Barracks, in 44 Gallon Drum lot’s. Good Regimental Perk, that.
Grand comradery was had. The American Sailor and Marine Brethren, more
than fifty of them, though life was great, until they sobered up, the
following Monday morning.
Life then became less that pleasant, when the mischief was found out
and the Chief Warrant Officer’s were deployed, both the American Naval
and Australian Army versions.
This had caused great angst to the powers that be, not to mention the
eventual issues and problems, and the one week delay in departing to
the training area, a few days sail away.
While this event was mostly quietly glossed over, except for the eventual
regimental punishments meted out, never underestimate the bastardry that
can be deployed with the velvet glove of alleged friendship and goodwill.
These sorts of underhanded “Goodwill” gestures and methods could also be
equally deployed against those that you wish to Shanghai.
After all, who doesn’t like a Free Bunk, bedding and hot showers included,
and Free Meals, with lot’s of Booze for a few days, amongst their new
“friends”?
Toss in a few other “Goodwill” gestures and it’s amazing the trouble you
can eventually cause. Oorah, what can I say, we were all young once.
That’s about what I was thinkin’! (meroww~)
This was a tactic that many of the French resistance used to distract German soldiers
while they were carrying out their plans… or at least was done in comedy movies lol
It’s a handy trick once, but only once unless you silence the people you used it on
because they will report what happened and new orders given from then on making
very hard to use it again on the same group.
Taking the Catia’s Pride’s travel time to Xanadu, they spend 6 days
going to Catia, 6 days back and now another delay?
Are they playing for time to retrieve the Dogushian occupation forces
from those occupied 3 planets? Maybe leaving their ships and weapons
to the formerly occupied locals?
So many possibilities.
Roughly eighteen days from Dogishua to Xanadu. Xanadu is at the center of the
inhabited worlds, and Dogishua is opposite Catia. So figure roughly eighteen
days between Xanadu and Catia. Going from Catia to Dogishua via the trade route
through the fringe worlds would take 42-45 days or so, with no stops.
Thank you for the clarification
If wormhole transitions are essentially instantaneous, why do
some routes take days or even weeks? Is that the result of
travel between incoming and outgoing wormholes?
That, and the fact that you might have many jumps between origin and destination.
The locations of the wormhole could be a big part of travel times too they could be millions of miles
apart you figure with current tech it can take 2 days to reach the moon from Earth and that’s 274,000
miles away. It makes sense that the wormholes would react to each other they are mostly strong
gravity wells if they are large enough whole planets could be pulled in.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1230/cosmic-distances/
so…. without some form of cheat, tech, or “wormhole”,.
interstellar travel is taking Years,, lots of years…
Bill,
Think about it this way.
An active Wormhole could not comfortably exist in a local Planetary system without causing a tidal gravity impact.
So if earth had a nearby active Wormhole, then it would be located way beyond Pluto, or we wouldn’t be here.
This then begs the question, how long would it take to travel from that location, to say, Mar’s?
Also, bearing in mind, the local solar system, as contained by our Sun, is relatively distant from our next closest local Solar system/s.
The preference for habitation and movement would be those Wormholes closet to inhabited or resource rich Planetary systems, that are also nearby to other inhabited and/or resource rich Planetary systems, with stable star systems.
In the case of earth, we are a lone Star system up a spiral arm, and if the Wormhole was way past Pluto, that’s a fair distance and would take some time.
So, a bit of quick math, then.
Light speed, estimated around 186,282 miles per second.
Let’s guess that no Space fairing Race’s vessel is yet near remotely light speed capable.
So, based on our current known earth technology, a journey of 300 million miles, roughly earth to mars, currently takes around seven months, one way.
Let’s Double your Technology capability.
Now, in a straight line that takes you around 3 months at your new velocity. It’s also original Bugatti technology, no brakes.
Should we Double that velocity again, it takes you around a week, traveling roughly around 98,400 mph. So, stopping or even slowing down then. OK.
As a guide, Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. The speed is constant, It doesn’t need to stop in any hurry.
All of which is a long way from the speed of light, but you are still going to take a few weeks or even months, to get to A from B, and back again.
Space, very big place, not much in it, relative to it’s size. This then begs the question, where’s your nearest wormhole, and where does it go?
Once you get there, how many hundred’s of millions of miles do you need to traverse, and at what velocity, to reach the next wormhole?
Hark back to the Ambassador speaking to the Catians, and letting it slip that it takes around three months via the indirect route, to get news and small stuff from home.
Also, as noted, our math is not based on any orbital or other antic’s to slow your vessel down from some percentage of sub light speed.
This is where the Catians get to use Anti Grav, while negating the need to use reverse thrust for a month, to slow down relative to their target. (Planet, Star System, Wormhole, etc.)
I would guess that no space faring race, yet, has achieved more than ten percent of light speed capability, at best, in terms of velocity, given the times and technology types being tossed around.
However, with Wormhole technology, even with the distance’s between wormholes, and the time (weeks or months) taken to get there, it’s still a pretty good way to get around, relatively speaking.
Add that to PeterCat’s obvious answer, and yeah, many jumps between origin and destination, and the time taken to get to each known jump-point, infers that everybody has the same logistical problems.
This also begs the question if any Race outside of the Core Worlds currently have vessels and technology even remotely comparable and performant to the Core Worlds.
Remember, PeterCat is describing the Core Worlds as suppressing their subject Races, which would sensibly include Weapon and Naval, both Civil and other (Space Capable) technology.
Depending on your observance to the technological advances of the proposed or alleged Kardashev scale, and related civilization advances, then at best, we are talking about Space Faring races that are mostly greater than Kardashev Zero, but not greater than Kardashev Two.
This guesstimate also fails to take in to account the gradients within each Kardashev scale, the time taken to achieve them, and any multiplier affect on that society’s technology and social advancement, compared to any other comparable society.
Lastly, achieving the requirements for that Kardashev scale incremental milestone, doesn’t necessary mean that advancement will be deployed, or even developed.
This is probably why we can’t see too many Dyson spheres around.
Achieving the same or similar results and benefits, or even not being able to justify the need, or use of, a Dyson sphere, doesn’t mean that society isn’t advancing in some other fashion, be it overly positive, or negative..
Then of course, they could be a parasite society, like the Core Worlds, and rest on their laurels, suppressing overall social and technology achievements, until somebody invents something useful they understand, and eventually, in some fashion, deploys.
The wolf Empire, for example, has early generation, working Anti Grav technology, and it’s related spin offs, although it doesn’t assist in achieving near light or F.T.L, or anything close to that.
However, it is a major technological advance compared to other races. Which then begs the question, what else is to come out of the Wolf Empire?
What else can the Wolf Empire invent or repurpose that would negate the Core Worlds technology’s and current advantages?
Lastly, what happens to the balance of power when the Wolf Empire make the Servant Races more independent, more technologically advanced, relative to the Core Worlds, and more self sufficient?
I believe that’s the idea Catians have escaped their slavery and wish to do the same for all races
there will be strife and diplomacy by the ton the dominate races will not want to loose their power
but bringing balance is their main goal I believe and sharing tech and trading fairly will make that
happen pretty quickly and in order for the core worlds to survive they will have to make sweeping
changes as well or find themselves in the same boat the fringe worlds were in.
Faster travel between wormholes and maybe shielding to stop/reduce lag would settle things very
quickly in the power struggle and the discovery of new wormholes as well.
The biggest advantage the Wolf Empire has is the grav tech it’s not a far jump they could have a working
warp drive with the right changes but then they would need a practical shield against the micro dust between
solar systems not a defensive one they wouldn’t need a massive powerful one able to stop energy beams
or missiles just a deflector shield. Yes I know getting a bit trekkie here but it makes sense. Basically from what
I’ve read a gravity field rather than a beam is needed to create a warp bubble so the grav engines would not
be able to function so a different means would have to be used to start the motion. There’s a whole slue of
new tech would need invented in order to bypass the need for wormhole travel but it would reduce the travel
time between the wormholes a trip that takes a sixday might only take a day tops(allowing for lag).
Please be trekkie.
Inventing new technologies, how they function and can
be applied is one of the fun parts of Science Fiction.
Scarsdale,
While some of that has merit, the Grav Tech can work both ways.
In order to deflect small inbound obstacles and such, all you
need is a weak low power field facing outwards from the vessel.
Whether this is deployed in the form of a bubble style, or in a
gravitational wave style, makes little difference.
The Grav engines them selves would overpower the method used by
magnitudes of order, even at idle, or whatever low power
mode would be referred to.
So, simple shield technology problem solved, but there would remain
upper limits to speed. As for Near Light Speed or FTL, not a hope.
As for chasing the Kardashev scale, and trying to invent Kardashev
based Technology a magnitude of order beyond your civilization’s
capabilities, that isn’t likely, as too many companion technologies
and knowledge advances would need to exist.
However, having said that, the end result of the current Catian
trading market approach means less overall Wormhole travel for most.
The long distances currently cursed to all, via the logistics of
extended Wormhole travel, are a Core World problem, while trying to
maintain and project control over a wide area of space.
Consider this.
What would a variance of even ten percent of the trade and technology
transfer from the current Core World Kingdom look like, if adjacent
Kingdom’s traded among themselves?
Also, long distance freight would NOT route via the Core Worlds, nor
be denominated in their choice of currency, trade, politics and control.
Long distance freight would be negotiated directly between those that
have mutual needs, which means more profit, better quality, shorter
targeted trading routes and more timely delivery, as you no longer
have long distance trade routes and a middle (Core World) Broker,
trying to control, limit, or suppress markets.
While Ten percent of the overall GDP doesn’t sound like much, the
change in Political, Military and Social Dynamics would have an enormous
knock on effect.
Remembering once again, the Racism and Specialism that is also rife.
So many Worlds, once given choice, would likely move away from both
choices, and go their own way. Balkanization is a thing, and would
only benefit the Catian and Wolf Empire.
The Core Worlds are rich to be plucked and White Anted, as nobody
clearly likes them, their just forced to deal with them.
The biggest hurdle isn’t so much the tech for near light speed it’s the acceleration, the crew would pull
hundreds of G’s with that hard of acceleration!
Without a means of counteracting that it would make soup of the crew and trash the ship and since
the grav drives only pull they aren’t going to help either. Someone has to break the laws of physics or
like warp drive find a way around it.
With any trip in space you accelerate 50% of the way and decelerate the rest of the way or crash into
your destination. Inertial damping would solve 85% of the FTL problems of heavy acceleration. Cancel inertia
and hard acceleration doesn’t create gravity forces.
The earliest ideas for FTL was a gravity bubble just in front of the ship to pull it into FTL but that much gravity
in one small space would create a micro-singularity that would be out of control and shred the ship and
not make it very far much less FTL.
Like the Trek movie “First Contact” since the damping wasn’t very good they had to gain close to light speed
or the jump into warp would kill them and trash the ship. Since the current tech that the terrans have has no
damping field or anti-gravity they can’t accelerate much past 1 g which would take 2-3 weeks (apx) to reach mars
from earth
You’re missing something. The ships have internal gravity plates to provide
artificial gravity and counteract acceleration. If the ship is accelerating at X
gees, and the internal plates are pulling everyone aboard in the same
direction at X-1 gee, then the crew would only feel an apparent 1 gee acceleration.
The gravity tech can only amplify gravity, not negate nor reverse it.
It would be possible to mount grav drives on pylons outside of the ship
to pull space debris away from the ship, but they would either have to
be used sparingly or replaced often.