Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170729213650/@comment-47205-20170730154037

Although I don't think most people keep them in mind, we do have ostensibly canonical figures for maximum speeds (relative to the local hypermatter rest frame) of FTL drives. For warp drives this is 550 kc, i.e. covering a distance of 5.5 million light years (a decent intergalactic range) takes ten years, so this tends not to be used. Transwarp drives get up to 100 Mc, covering the same distance in a matter of weeks, which is far more reasonable. Wormholes can be anything up to practically instantaneous. See the hyperspace page for more information.

As you can see on Project:Fiction Guidelines, Andromeda does not require permission to colonise (although I think the coordinators would appreciate a heads-up).