Daedalus (ship)

This page is about the ship class. For the game, see Daedalus.

The Daedalus is a special transport ship used by Wormhole Engineers, the purpose of which is to expand the inhabited universe. Daedalus ships embark from a human-inhabited region of space with a microwormhole and arrive in a new star system, usually containing a planet suitable for colonization. Upon arrival crew members will be awoken from stasis and land on the planet. It is there that they will expand the opening of the wormhole allowing for near-instantaneous travel between the ship's origin and its destination. Due to the speeds at which the ship travels, any crew members on board will age unusually slowly.

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Use

It takes a Daedalus ship 1.5 years to reach its top speed of 3×10^7 m/s at which it experiences time more slowly than most human inhabitants of the universe.

List of Daedalus Missions

Daedalus 1

The first Daedalus mission was to Gliese 667 Cc, later colloquially known as [Bellona] due to its visual similarities to Mars including its ferrous surface and red sky. Approximately 23.6 light years away, the planet was the first planet outside the solar system. The closest known Earth-like planet (including Mars), travel to Bellona would allow scientists to inspect the planet for foreign life, explore the possibility of colonization, and aid in the examination of the Milky Way. While a small colony based on a mining economy became self-sufficient, Bellona's real value lay in its ability to triangulate celestial objects and discover exoplanets in orbits undetectable from Earth.

Daedalus 2

[Kepler 186f] 492 light years from Sol