Quote:Not at all, assuming it takes a few minutes to get up to max speed the relative velocities won't be that different, unless of course they are going for a head on colision, which will be dificult to archieve.
This particular handwave - if I may be pardoned the pun - is neccessary if we intend to have people piloting these ships on their ramming runs. Without it, hitting another ship that isn't cooperating is like trying to shoot a bullet out of the air.
Also this wouldn't affect people with an acceleration drive which would just give wierd results.
Besides how would their absolute velocity be defined? For when they are near a large mass, it is the mass, but when they are in space it becomes relative to what? Each other? Then two ships racing side by side will eventually accelerate to lightspeed.
Besides with that handwave Convoys need to saty out of visial range of each other and while space is plenty big I don't like that image.
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