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[Farscape] Just how fast is a starburst? If peacekeepers were successful at having starburst-capable carriers, would they dominate the galaxy without needing wormholes?
gpt
>Starburst is able to increase the rate at which vast distances are covered by moving the Leviathan into one dimensional space-time. This changes the Leviathan's linear three-dimensional speed into an exponential one dimensional speed where by the distance covered during Starburst is a function of the time spent in Starburst. Starburst is extremely inefficient for short movements under a light cycle (the distance a beam of light travels in one cycle). Beyond a light cycle, the distance covered by Starburst increases rapidly. Unfortunately, the more time that is spent in Starburst, the more energy that is used. A Leviathan cannot generate energy fast enough to maintain Starburst, so energy is stored as low-energy (visible light) photons in the amnexus system for use during Starburst. Also, the direction in which a Leviathan travels depends on its entry vector into one dimensional space-time, but the information that makes up the entry vector is converted into a scalar value in one dimensional space-time, thus making the exit vector a completely random value. Because of this random exit vector, reverse navigation is not as simple as turning the ship around and Starbursting again. The ships pilot must replot an entirely new vector based on their current and previous navigational positions (the latter of which can often be pure speculation and intuition on the pilot's part). Lastly, the very high speeds which Starburst achieves makes it impossible to track a Leviathan through Starburst, due to Heisenberg Uncertainty. A pursuing ship only has the option of searching along the Leviathans last known vector, but without a precise knowledge of this vector, the track could be millions of metras off the Leviathan's true trajectory. This makes Starburst an effective and non-destructive defense mechanism.



I guess technically its more of a teleportation than it is ultra high speed. 

But yes, one of the main points is getting this kind of tech into their war machine.