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Originally Posted by 4Tran
It's certainly possible that the transit time was shorter than an hour; but there could have been several songs in between as well. I tend to prefer using more conservative numbers to establish the lower limits - it's more useful than high-ball figures. Still, 105,000c is awfully fast.
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This is really pretty consistent with what we've seen before - from what episode 6 showed in the intro, the fold drive seems to work like the FTL drive proposed in
Event Horizon - it essentially "pinches" two bits of space-time together, and shoots the object in question through the "hole". It obviously isn't quite instantaneous, but it would be damn fast - remember that in original Macross once it actually folded the SDF-1 traveled from Earth to Pluto in
under a second. There are going to be some mind-bogglingly high multipliers of
c in realspace involved with folding.