[quote=@Ascendant]
So the distances aren't that big a deal?
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The distances are a big deal, but the FTL speed cap is rather high (relative to most NRP caps). Additionally, at the start of the RP, everyone has been in the True Vacuum for four weeks. So you have a 40,000 lightyear envelop of space which it is possible for you to have traveled across in that time - which is half the distance of our region's width at 80,000 lightyears.

Which means initial contact times are probably not going to be too intensive for you to arrange. In the future it might take longer to move around simply because you don't have the four week headstart.