Karte der Milchstraße, Star Trek-Universum (Prime Timeline ca. 2372), ungefähre Genauigkeit aus Quellen auf dem Bildschirm.

# Warp 9.99 (8,333c OR approx. = 1ly/hour) and the Milky Way vs Time

* ***This is the speed of, “TOP END” late 24th century (2370s), sub-space communications***
* ***I would assume from statements in canon, that this occurs between 2170’s (Start DIS/TOS era) to 2340s (Khitomer Massacre)***
* ***Assuming you “could” do warp 8 (1024c OR 2.8ly/day) NON-STOP = approx. 98 years across***

***EVEN SUB-SPACE COMMS =***

100,000 light years across = 100,000 hours = approx. 4,167 days = **approx. 11.42 years across**, ***NON-STOP***

so a 2 way conversation of 100,000 lightyears would take 22.85 years just to say:

1. Person 1: “Hi, how are you?”
2. Person 2: “Great, yourself?”

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Lets say the Borg can do warp 9.99 by 2370, even they still use “artificial wormholes” (trans-warp hubs) to cut travel time to “reasonable” with a hub to “hop to/from” every few hundred light years (at least in their own region of space)

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So by the era of:

****For reference =*** [the 2161 Klingon Empire](https://www.ditl.org/Images/M/MapPrewide.jpg)***, is already 1000 light years across, at the widest point!, the OP map above is roughly accurate 2272/2373(?, its 100% post-Klingon conflict/pre-Dominion War)***

* 2156: Earth-Romulan War (high warp 6/early warp 7), thats still like 1 or 1.5 days a light year
* 2256: 1st Federation-Klingon War (high warp 7/early warp 8), thats still like 0.6 or 0.75 days a light year
* 2373: Federation-Dominion War (Warp 9), thats, **STILL ONLY, 5 HOURS PER LIGHT YEAR**
* **example: It should take 1.5+ years to reach “Farpoint Station” from Earth (2830ly), for the 2360s Enterprise-D**

In both earlier era’s, it would take **approx. 3 years** to cross the Klingon Empire, 1-way *(1000ly to 2000ly, respectful of era)*

***By Dominion War, is STILL 1.1+ YEARS TO CROSS THE KLINGON EMPIRE, 1-WAY (2000 LIGHT YEARS)***

**Even with warp 9.99 sub-space comm’s, would take about 6 MONTHS to relay fleet orders across the Klingon Empire** ***(assuming command center was at absolute center)***

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**Personal thoughts:**

IMHO, no “authoritarian power” can maintain an empire much larger than 2000 light year “orb”, if we assume that communication time is as presented (limited to a 2-way conversation of 2 hours per light year).

**This also assumes absolute fanatical loyalty** to empire by “regional governors/ect” (so you dont get an a fragmented empire of “local” warlords).

***Reasonably, 200 light years across, would reduce all times to 10% of total, & thats STILL A ONE MONTH 2-way conversation, from one far edge to the other*** **(& 40 days travel at warp 9, 1-way)**

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**Also “Pre-Warp” note:**

if a sub-light/pre-warp empire (lets say 0.5c “drives”), of 3 “tightly packed/close” solar systems spanned more than 2 light years, “I’d eat my hat” (again, about 1 to 3 years across travel time, 1 way, max, IMHO)

# 1 pixel = 32sq light years

or 100,000 light year across

What happened to the other federation from
TOS?