Something I find interesting about tlt (gtn specifically here) is that when traveling from the ninth to the first, it is specified that the “rapid travel” takes about an hour. Now, as we know, the ninth is (both vibes-wise and based on the materially longer solar day - ergo harrow is confused about darkness happening so quickly) Pluto. The ABSOLUTE minimum distance Pluto can be from earth is 2.6 billion miles. 2,600,000,000 miles per hour is, like, 3.9c. And that’s assuming they travel in a completely straight line, which seems pretty unlikely given that the velocity of earth is nearly six times that of Pluto. Most of the time, if you “went straight there” eg by accelerating radially inward rather than using a hohmann transfer or “warping”,whatever that means in practice, Earth would just fling itself away from you at (shockingly) planetary speeds. Approximately 50,000 miles per hour, to be specific. And then due to you still moving at the speeds ordained by keplers second law, you would probably just fall into the sun. Admittedly most orbital mechanics work differently at relativistic speeds but like. Damn they have space travel DOWN. Even without the steles! I guess with enough thrust anything is possible.
