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by kindle-dev 1727 days ago
Even without FTL travel, just having constant acceleration at 1g is enough to travel the width of the galaxy in 12 years ship-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac....
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Try plugging 12 years of 1G acceleration into the Rocket Equation.

If reactionless drives remain science fiction this mode of travel is flat impossible. There literally isn't enough mass in the solar system.

That is a _huge_ 'just', tho. That's a lot of energy.
Welcome to the delta V problem....